2010
So now I’m not liking this WordPress app for the iPad. It just lost my almost completed post! Just lost it a second time, need to find a better app! I was writing about my day, starting at Quoddy Head, then traveling south via Cutler, Jonesport, Birch Harbor and the Schoodic peninsular, ending up in Bar Harbor.[ad name=”post”] About half of the stores in Bar Harbor have already closed for the season and the rest will close this coming weekend […]
Yesterday I flew into Boston with my wife, Karen. Karen is attending a conference and I decided to rent a car to drive to Lubec, Maine, then drive back down the cost to Boston. Last week the weather was supposed to be sunny and cold. Now I’m here it’s supposed to be wet and mild. I sped up I-95, bypassing some wonderful color in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and lower Maine, but as I drove further north the colors paled and […]
I finally got the opportunity to spend two days in the company on Joe McNally at a seminar arranged by Sharlie Douglas of Nikon and Larry Wheeler of Houston Camera Exchange. While the audience was primarily made up of Nikon users, I wasn’t the lone Canonista. I also learned some areas where Nikon Speedlights have advantages over Canon Speedlites. Like the David Ziser ‘Captured by the Light’ evening I attended the previous week, the two days with Joe were both […]
Over the Labor Day weekend I was trying to catch up on some of my personal photos and came across this image I took in May 2009 while cleaning out my junk from my mother’s attic. My sister had been badgering me for a couple of years to clean sweep so I finally took a flight across the pond to do the deed. Initially I found the task quite difficult – the attic housed much of my first 30 years […]
I was working on some client files over the weekend when the ‘accident’ above occurred. I was in Photoshop CS5 and going to add a layer mask to the image when I accidentally clicked on the add adjustment layer icon, then the Posterize… feature, et voila!, the image above appeared. I was quite taken by the result have never posterized anything before.[ad name=”post”] According to Wikipedia, posterization, “entails conversion of a continuous graduation of tone to several regions of fewer […]
Five years ago this morning, hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border as at Category 3 with sustained winds at 120 mph. With my wife’s family hailing from New Orleans, hurricane Katrina changed all of our lives in ways we never anticipated. These photos were take on May 28, 2006, some eight months after the storm. Most of these were taken in the 9th Ward, just a few blocks from the breach in the walls of the Industrial Canal. […]