2016 - 4

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Fountains Abbey and gardens

Playing around a bit in photoshop with this one, I turned the contrast way up and the saturation a little bit, I like how it turned out.

Tall ship Manitou sailing on Lake Michigan.

Tunnel leading our to the Deira Old Gold Souk

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Sony A5100, 1.8/35mm.

No Hungry - Hungry

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Around the neighborhood

Philadelphia, December 2021

Trying out the TTArtisan 1.5/21, very happy with feel and IQ so far

Camera: Zeiss Ikon ZM

Lens: TTArtisan 21mm f1.5

Film: Kodak 5222 (Double X)

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photo of myself taken by Louis

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Sheep at the California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles, California.

Fontburn, Northumberland, UK Please view large..

From the series unlimited landscape

Hasselblad X1D 50S

Mattatuck Trail, Warren, Connecticut.

I usually shoot both RAW and JPEG with my Ricoh GR II and the JPEGs are this high contrast black and white with grain. For the most part I use the JPEGs in Lightroom as a guide for my RAW processing.

This day I somehow had my camera set to make a single file, the high contrast JPEG file. So, these are straight out of the camera and a bit more contrasty and grainy than my usual. I like the images and decided to post them anyway. I have a few hundreds more I did a week later but have yet to process them all yet.

These were shot in a small streamlet that we crossed over with snowshoes. It was a fun day and this is a great new trail for us, very close to our house.

Descanso Gardens, Flintridge, California. There's something about this garden that's very nice: lots in bloom, well maintained but not too formal, and plenty of trees to keep it cool and shaded which makes for better photography.

I took pictures with the Fuji X100S and the Ricoh GR and this first set is high contrast JPEGs from the GR. I'm slowly getting used to the X100S but at this point the GR is like an extension of my brain as I've used it more and its simpler ergonomically.

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Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut.

Two weeks later, I found myself on the same field as my last post with the same hiking partner. This time there had been a light snow and some tire tracks made a nice tracking line toward the odd looking trees at the south end of the field.

The Appalachian Trail runs along the left edge this frame and the Housatonic River is a bit further left.

Zooming down into deep dark space by cropping and scaling up, adjusting contrast and brightness, and repeating several times.