Not much to say here. This was taken towards the end of a nice hike and I have to admit I saw this one in B&W. I did play around with the B&W hue adjustments in lightroom quite a bit on this one.
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Mmmmmm
Sometimes the way light hits ordinary objects makes them pop. This is one of those moments. The setting sun was streaming in through my kitchen window and just hit these items just so…
Morning’s First Light
I don’t know how productive it will be but I’m practicing one-handed shooting with a point-and-shoot camera while taking my dog for his morning walk. So imagine me with a dog leash in one hand, the camera in the other and me being pulled in the middle. This was today’s capture.
Cats and the Internet
What would the internet be without stuff like this?
Blue to Grey
We finally get a decent stretch of weather with some beautiful blue skies and what do I do? Strip out the color and go greyscale again. At least there are lots of different tones in this photo…
Words of…
I came upon this tree and saying in Oakwood Cemetery. I stripped out the color from the original image by adding Adobe Lightroom’s “Red Hi-Contrast Filter” preset. What may (or may not) be obvious is the other photoshopping I did to the image to increase the “canvas” size around the carving to make it more horizontal that it actually was in real life.
(I have gone back to re-shoot it and this version does not have the expanded canvas. I have put a smaller copy of the photoshopped version down below.)
Here’s a wider shot of what the tree looks like. The rope hanging from the branch is a nice “touch”. I’m guessing / hoping that it was from an old swing. How long the chair has been there is anybody’s guess.
Oh, like me you’re probably asking yourself “What does it say?”. My best guess is this:
“WE ARE HERE TO CREATE NOT MERELY SURVIVE”
Dignity Restored
Yep, it did not take me long to feel guilty about this post. So this one should redeem me.
Dignity Will be Found Elsewhere
There will be enough cute, cuddly, awwww! photos of Jasper on this site so I don’t mind posting this one. :-0
In fact, it’s worth posting in its uncropped form so you can see him in all his glory:
Princess Pine in the Snow
To give you a sense of scale these little gals are about 3-4 inches high and seem utterly resistant to winter. This close-up does not show you how they tend to grow in patches. This particular forest has a beautiful area where these are everywhere. But if you walk a couple more minutes along the trail, there are no more to be seen.