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Photography with NPOPs

Photography with NPOPs

Recently, friend Howard Grill posted in his ongoing YouTube series of "3-minute photo thoughts" a question about doing any "serious photography" while on family vacations. I thought I would launch a post about my own thoughts on this subject because it has a few...

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Resurrecting Shorelines

Resurrecting Shorelines

Shorelines have been one of my favorite areas to photograph for as long as I can remember.  So it seemed natural for me to gravitate to my "Shorelines" folder in my cabinet to see if I could resurrect a few slides via my D800 method.   I picked a few from pretty far...

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Sister Island Rock Iguanas

Sister Island Rock Iguanas

Sister Island Rock Iguana (Cyclura nubila caymanensis), Image #RE-9593, Little Cayman Island, Caribbean As I mentioned in some of my previous posts about Little Cayman, the island currently has very little development on it, only about 4% of the total area.  Most of...

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Little Cayman

Little Cayman

Hey folks, we are back.   It was a great week enjoying a getaway to this little island in the Caribbean.   The sun was intense at times, humidity high and relatively calm seas.  We ended up being quite fortunate as far as the weather.  Our resort had to cancel diving...

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Returning to Cayman

Returning to Cayman

Soon my wife and I will be returning to the Cayman Islands for this year's dive trip.   It is hard to believe how much time has past since we were last there.  I checked my photo database, and our last trip was to Cayman Brac back in November 1999.   I was still...

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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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