Category: Photography

Holiday present buying time

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Blatant promotional post coming up! (But not self-promotional.) Do you still have unticked items on your holiday present list? Then please consider this option: a calendar or two by my faraway friend Novita Listyani, a superb photographer and great friend who has been the main inspiration behind my taking up photography seriously as a channel for artistic expression. Take a look at her post about her calendars, and check our her public photography posts on Google+ or Facebook. I have already purchased her calendar for 2014 and several of her photobooks, and I can tell you that they arrived in excellent shape, printed on high quality paper.

Frosty football

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Frosty football 2015-12-05 08.56.30.jpg
This ball and others like it often visit our back yard. This particular visit started on Thanksgiving and continues. The charming little boy whose ball this is has not been visiting his grandparents next door to us since Thanksgiving, apparently. Or he just finds it too cold to play and has forgotten all about his freezing football.

Playing with Aurora HDR Pro instead of doing my work

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How do you feel about a list of my latest experiments with Aurora? (Originally I made it into a slidewshow, but it was a bit slow, so I changed it to a simple presentation of the photos. This also lets me add captions.)

View from the Music Pier 2015-07-10 11.33.12_HDR
Ocean City, NJ, beach from the Music Pier.
Ocean City Bay clouds Landscape Realistic and Denoise 2015-06-28 20.19.06_HDR
Clouds over the bay in Ocean City, NJ.
OC Bay clouds 2 2015-06-28 20.29.44_HDR
More clouds over the bay in Ocean City, NJ.
Bali Sunrise 2015-06-02 Landscape Balanced and some denoise and bringing shadows and midtones down a little IMG_4339_HDR
Sunrise in Bali, Indonesia.
Pink clouds Landscape 2014-09-07 19.32.35_HDR
Wild pink clouds over the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ.
Sunset on Lake Ontario from Niagara on the Lake Landscape Realistic with Denoise 2014-06-14 20.42.29_HDR
Sunset over Lake Ontario, captured from Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Reservoir lake at Peace Valley Park 2015-07-25 15.48.13_HDR
Afternoon clouds over Lake Galena in Peace Park near Doylestown, PA.