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) RawTherapee and Studio NX for easy access of my original pictures in RAW format

2) Gimp 3.2 for most, if not all, improvements and modifications. RawTherapy is used to import a picture into Gimp

3) Hugin to create panoramas

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