Santa Fe National Cemetery

This shot is with a "lensbaby", the blur is point of the lens. Photoshop work revolved around contrast on the gravestone and color/saturation for the tree and the crab apples.

Sculpture Garden - Santa Fe, New Mexico

This is a 30 second night shot using a tripod. Most of the sculptures moved in the wind. Photoshop work was primarily color balance and exposure tweaking.

Abandon Jail - Outside of Santa Fe

This is another one from the jail. Saw this door with the peeling paint, rust etc and the light hitting it from the side. Photoshop work was primarily moving the color more toward red (blood?), more contrast on the hand print, and some cropping to make the photo a little more abstract.

Abandon Jail - Outside of Santa Fe

This is where they filmed the latest iteration of "The Longest Yard".
I looked up and saw this "chimney" in the real part of the jail, not the set.
Photoshop work was a combination of multiple raw files, shot using a tripod at different exposures to get the windows and the walls to show up. Not true "HDR" but a useful technique when the range from light to dark is so extensive.

Tent Rocks - New Mexico

A very interesting landscape. Photoshop work was pretty much limited to making some portions slightly lighter, others darker, some sharpening and contrast/curves working from a "raw" file.

Photos from a workshop

I spent a week at the beginning of August at a photography workshop
in Santa Fe..."Real World Digital Photography". It was a lot of
fun, I learned heaps about Photoshop and photography. Here are
a number of the photos I took and worked on in Photoshop during
the week. Santa Fe Workshops can be found at:
santafeworkshops.com
The instructor, Sean Duggan has two web sites, his blog:
www.f1point4.com/f1point4/
and his main web page:
seanduggan.com
If you ever have the time and the money, like photography,
I highly recommend both the Sante Fe Workshops, and Sean's
classes (he also does workshops and classes at other locations.)

The Croatian Coast

The weather and and views were incredible. As a friend would say
"I could live here".

Mud Volcanos

Here's some mud volcanos...outside of Baku, Azerbaijan. They aren't hot, you can walk right up to them.

I'm back

still waiting on my computer etc. I have heaps of photos though

And a 3rd, El Paraiso Hot Springs Waterfall, Water is about 110 degrees F

Here's another one, from an airshow

During one of the processions, Notice the dad on a cell phone, the little boy wondering what is going on

A photo - to prove I'm still here

It has been a long long time, so here is something
from my new camera. A photo from Good Friday in
Antigua, Guatemala.

Nymphenburg Gardens - Munich Germany Photo Friday - "Soft"

finally another photo

I've been too busy to post, too busy to do much
with the scanner except run some tests trying to
figure out why the colors are all wacked out when
I scan negatives vice slides. But above is my
first PhotoFriday in a while....soft, a toddler
is soft, even when its concrete :)

The scanner is back!

My scanner came back this afternoon. Hopefully by tomorrow
I'll have my desk cleaned up enough to get it all hooked
back up...seems like taxes and bill stuff had encroached
on its space. In the meantime, the oven died (cooking/eating
is my one of my other two hobbies). It passed away shortly
after Pope John Paul II, taking a tray of 16 peanut butter
cookies with it...as it got hotter and hotter and hotter.
It seems the thermostat is dead and the heating element does
not want to turn off.

Dune and Sea Oats at Sunset - Pensacola Beach (Fort Pickens)

Its Friday Again

and I swore to myself I'd have a photo for
every PhotoFriday challenge. This week's
challenge is "glow". My scanner is not
back from being repaired yet (although I
did get mail saying it was being repaired
under warranty). So I, and any readers
out there by extension, are stuck with
what I can come up with from my library
of photos I've already scanned. I already
used the moonlit graveyard for "ghostly",
which may have been my first choice. So
instead, I'm putting up a sunset, but unlike
most sunset photos, I took this one facing
away from the sun, the "glow" of the sunset
evident in the dune and seaoats.

Faces - Masks of Venice

Faces - PhotoFriday

I'm up way too late, and the PhotoFriday theme is
already listed...faces. This took me a whole second
to know what photo I would use (because my scanner
is dead, another photo I'd consider isn't possible
today...er tonight)