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“4 2″ (A or B)

How’s that for cryptic title. “4  2″ is what I have entitled this image for what is a hopefully obvious reason. The “A or B” is because I will show two versions of the same image and would like to know which you prefer.

Here’s the story. I made this image yesterday morning shortly after sunrise [...]

Two More

… Lensbaby images. I hear the groans. I understand. I attended a presentation last night by Tony Sweet, he of the workshop I attended back in late October and one heck of a photographer. He also happens to be a Lensbaby “guru” and presented some Lensbaby images during the course of his presentation.

I also had [...]

And Now for Something a Little Different – The Old Covered Bridge (IR and Topaz)

Objective: Experiment with IR images for the purpose of taking them beyond the typical IR landscape image; To utilized some of the more creative techniques that I have been using with color images on IR images.

Location: Bogert’s Bridge, Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pa.

Time: Today at High Noon

Conditions: Sunny; Shooting position shaded by a large tree

Camera: Canon [...]

The Colors of Autumn (Before & After Topaz)

I love photography. And I love creating realistic images… images that capture what is before me. But the creative side of me continues to want to experiment both in-camera and in post-processing. And I am finding the Topaz Suite (Adjust, Detail, Clean, Simplify, etc.) to be a marvelous tool for releasing the inner artist in [...]

Passion vs. Innocence

Last winter I was working on a series of rose images in which I tried to capture the emotions/feelings connoted by different color roses. A red rose connotes passion/love while a white rose connotes innocence/purity. Last year’s image were, for the most part, macro/close-up images of single roses.

While I was at the market yesterday (remember [...]