I welcome comments on any of my work, published here.

I started taking photographs as an (analog) amateur photographer, using my own darkroom, in the 1960's and continued until the early 1990s.

After a long break, due to work, I restarted taking (digital) pictures after my retirement in 2013. My approach is trrying to produce the picture I believe to have seen. I am doing this by interpreting my RAW file similarly to what I in the analog times saw as a "negative". My manipulations of the RAW file towards a JPG are not principally different from my manipulations in a darkroom to produce a positive print. It is a conversion from the light sensor (photographic film in the old days, the sensor in my camera now) towards a reproduction on the final medium: paper or nowadays also a computer screen or web page. In both cases the chemical and the digital sensor have different sensitivities and other properties than my eye and brains.

I am using the following software tools in my "digital darkroom":

1) Capture NX-D for easy access of my original pictures in RAW format and export into TIF format for further manipulations

2) Gimp 2.10 for most, if not all, improvements and modifications

3) Nik filters from Google as add-in in Gimp

4) Hugin to create panoramas

5) Exif Pilot to maintain the Exif data to go with the final picture.