Notes from the Woods

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Lightroom presets – busy busy

Yes, of course, the apologetic blogger post about not keeping up - seems we all have a few of them around eh?   I have been terribly busy with some new work on the photography front, was out of town for a few days photographing wolves, and now back into some client...

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Luminosity Masking at 3:30 am

Luminosity Masking at 3:30 am

Cayman Brac Revisited Insomnia sucks, but I may as well make the best of it. I took one of my favorite landscapes for a little reprocessing trip to correct some horizon distortion, and also give it a go with some luminosity masking. It looks so much better now that I...

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Happy 25th Birthday Macs!

I found it quite funny, that even 25 years later, that little booklet that drops in the ad for the original Macintosh looks just like the booklet I got with my MacPro when I switched last year. I suppose it goes to show even with leaps and bounds in advances in...

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Don’t leave me alone

So what to water lilies have to do with sea lions?  I was rescuing some more images from Picture Purgatory and came across a couple that seemed to have a similar concept to them.  I couldn't help but notice how important the elements other than the main subject were...

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Styles come, styles go

My wife Lisa recently treated me for my birthday (Go Capricorns!) to the exhibit that is just closing this weekend at the Detroit Institute of Arts: Monet to Dali.   It is somewhat hard to describe the feeling of seeing the actual brushstrokes of some of these masters...

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Picture Purgatory

Posts that make you think always stand out, and a couple recently did that for me in spades - the original over at see the details, and a followup one done by Paul Lester.   Both related to discussion about what people do with all the images they make and questions...

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Ice Pattern photos

My first outing for 2009 to photograph was a quick jump into my local woods to look for ice patterns. These woods are quite good for ice because nearly all of it floods quite regularly from the Clinton River. Given crazy Michigan weather, it dumped a good 12 inches of...

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Looking forward and back 2008 Favorites

Looking forward and back 2008 Favorites

So, what about 2008?  I wrote previously about some of my favorite images of 2007 here if you want to check that out.  The fact is, 2008 was actually a pretty slow image production year for me, yet I embarked on quite a few new pursuits of subject...

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