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Betsy and I visited Harpers Ferry in September, 2013. In addition to visiting the historical sites in the town, we were also able to enjoy some beautiful autumn color. I created this ‘painting’ in Photoshop using a photo taken that day.
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A favorite rose in our yard is this beautiful bicolor, Ronald Reagan. It’s appropriate that a rose bears his name since President Reagan signed the legislation that made the rose our official flower.
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My first impression on my very first visit to Hong Kong was that of a very large, urban area teeming with people. But it didn’t take me long to discover that there were several different aspects of Hong Kong, some of which were very surprising.
I did not expect to find the scene above — it almost appeared to be a view from some tropical island. The photo was actually taken at Repulse Bay in Hong Kong. This image is made from a slide taken in 1987; I used Photoshop to clean the image and remove some of the damage.
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When I went to China for the first time in 1987 I was fascinated by the roof lines of the palaces in the Forbidden City (Palace Museum) in Beijing. I must have taken hundreds of pictures (slides) on the day we were there.
I scanned the slides a couple of years ago, but some of them had deteriorated so badly that they didn’t result in a very good digital image. I decided to play around in Photoshop to see what would happen if I tried to give a poor image a ‘vintage’ look. This is the result, which I rather like.
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Betsy often encourages me to be ‘creative’ when taking photos. I don’t think of myself as particularly creative, but I did get this foggy picture of the needles on a pine tree while we were at Mt. Nebo in Arkansas.
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I’ve read quite a bit about HDR (high dynamic range) photography, but I had never actually tried to get an HDR image until our vacation at the beach last week. Wednesday, May 18, was cloudy and overcast when we got up. So I took three photos (one normal, one underexposed and one overexposed) of the scene from our balcony and combined them into a single HDR image.
I think it turned out pretty good for my first attempt. What do you think?
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We have a pink dogwood tree in our front yard, which we feel is pretty special because most of the dogwoods on our street are white. There is something about the simplicity of the dogwood blossoms that I find to be very appealing.
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In late April Betsy and I were still getting out on the golf course before the sun popped over the mountains to the east. The morning of April 25 was overcast with heavy clouds, and I snapped this photo of the sky.
Although I thought the original picture was pretty good, I played around with the image in Photoshop and darkened the clouds and the foreground to emphasize the color of the approaching dawn.
The original version of this photo is shown below.
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Spring on the Cumberland Plateau is beautiful, and one of the trees that help announce ‘Spring is here’ is the redbud tree. The blossoms are gorgeous, especially against a blue sky. This tree is in our front yard.
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Winter has a cold beauty that can make the frigid temperatures a little more bearable. This photo, from my archives, was taken in our yard on a clear day following an ice storm here in the Glade.
