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Yellow Bellied Slider (Trachemys scripta script), 2/3/2023, The Landings brackish lagoon # 15, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga
It was a great thrill today to be introduced to two famous ladies: Calpernia Addams and Bianca Leigh.
Trans Scripts is a show taking place at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (among thousands of others). It tells of the true-life struggles and triumphs of six transgender women, so it seemed essential for me to see it. This picture is a selfie taken as we settled into the auditorium and just before I switched off my phone.
After the show I went down to the bar, where a man started a conversation with me about the play. He turned out to be the writer/producer Paul Lucas and gave me his card. At this moment one of the cast arrived - none other than Calpernia Addams! Paul introduced us and we continued talking about our reactions to the piece. Then Calpernia, seeing his card in my hand, asked if I was an actress. Hesitantly I admitted that I was trans too, at which Calpernia seemed surprised.
Paul had to move on, but he took me to another cast member, Bianca Leigh, whom you might remember as Mary Ellen in the film TransAmerica. We talked about the show, its relevance to my own experience, its development and the trans scene in Scotland. Calpernia remarked that on her first visit to Scotland she heard that everyone went South to London, but now girls seem to be staying here. Bianca asked how long ago I transitioned and my reply that I had not led to a long discussion about how far one could or should go.
After half an hour I had to leave, thinking I had taken enough of their time, but I walked back across town with a new bounce in my step because I had chatted with two such famous names.
Trans Scripts is honest, intelligent, witty and relevant, with various echoes of my own past and perhaps future. If you can come to Edinburgh this month, see it! If it tours to your city, get a ticket! www.transscripts.org
The Kannada script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka.
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Some folks have asked what PP I use on these, the short answer is "it depends" but I can tell what I did here.
1- Opened the RAW file with photoshop, used the "auto" convert.
2- Saved it as a TIFF.
3- Opened with The GIMP.
4- Made a duplicate layer, used "auto equalize" and faded this layer to my liking.
5- Merged down the layer.
6- Used the FXFoundy script "Smart Sharpen Redux" at default settings (it makes it's own dupe layer) then merged it down.
7- Made a dupe layer then used the FXFoundry script "Local Contrast Enhance" then faded to my liking and merged it down.
8- Saved it.
9- Downsized it for Flickr.
10- Saved as a JPEG.
11- Opened with Photoshop.
12- Used "Topaz De-Noise 5" to butter up the bokeh :-)
And that's all there is to it!