Notes from the Woods

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Optimizing Photoshop

A nicely written article can be found here. Some are old news to experienced Photoshop users, but I think you might find a new tip or two. If anything, it provides easy to understand explanations of many of the performance related aspects of the world's best imaging...

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Happy New Year and new gallery

Happy New Year! I have added a new gallery for experimentations I occasionally pursue with modifying some of my images. Image manipulation isn't something I tend to focus on at all, but occasionally when the weather outside is poor (frequent here in Michigan) and the...

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New article – digital shoe box?

Any photographer accumulating digital images has concerns about backing them up and making sure they can access them for many years to come. A new article is online looking at the options available to the digital photographer today. Shoe box article

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Digital whining again…

As I have noted in my Perils and Addictions article on digital capture, as alluring as it can be, sometimes the digital world can be quite consuming in learning new terminology and technology and how it fits with your photographic life. After all, my thought process...

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Fall Color Trip – Days 2-5

As predicted, fall colors are definitely VERY late this year. The Great Smoky Mountains, that normally would peak sometime between mid-October and the end of the month, are easily another 1-2 weeks away from peak. Nonetheless, there is no shortage of subject matter in...

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Fall Color trip 2005 – Day 1

This year I am spending the fall color chase going south - hitting the southern end of Ohio and then into the Great Smoky Mountains. I have always wanted to visit some of the waterfalls and canyons of Hocking Hills, Ohio - to break the perception that it is just flat...

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Audio for the photographer

Traditionally, at least in my opinion, access to information about photography has been through print media and the internet, magazines, books, and various internet forums and article sites - but still in a form where you must read the information. You have to sit in...

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Kayak arrived

Well, it finally arrived, in its very own body bag! I am looking forward to getting it wet, and eventually photographing from it. Most of all, I will be able to explore many areas that I have never been able to visit before, an adventure in itself. Stay tuned, who...

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