This Daisy has obviously seen better days. I used post processing to emphasize the decay. In Color Efex Pro I used a bleach bypass filter along with some detail extraction. I also gave it a little darken/lighten center treatment on the yellow center. Back in Photoshop I took down the saturation. then I added a… Continue reading Day 9 – Faded Daisy
Category: Nostalgia
Cocktails
It was another windy week in Santa Fe and though I tried to photograph some flowers in my yard I didn’t start early enough so had only moderate success in avoiding movement. In anticipation of a trip to Northern Arizona next week I started reviewing some pictures from a previous trip. I had also just… Continue reading Cocktails
Bicycle
This week’s photo shoot was cancelled due to windy showery weather so I had to revert to last weeks images from the Quaker Garden in Santa Fe. I’m always a sucker for bicycles and the door with the heart behind it made this one special. This is another case where I intentionally over processed the… Continue reading Bicycle
Saw Blade Abstract
I headed up to Embudo this week to revisit the Classical Gas Museum. My primary mission was to collect some grungy textures from the many old gas pumps with all manner of peeling paint and rust. On my previous visit I had taken a picture of these rusty saw blades and never could do anything… Continue reading Saw Blade Abstract
Phonograph
Bored, bored, bored. Unsettled weather, nothing in bloom, winter subjects exhausted. I have been looking for a three day window of decent weather (i.e. no snow) so I can get up to Colorado and try to find some Sandhill Cranes doing their mating dance. It looks like I may finally make it Sunday through Tuesday… Continue reading Phonograph
Star of India
Well, I’m in a rush to get out and shooting as my long awaited visit to San Diego is now a reality. I arrived yesterday and just had time to stroll along the waterfront. I won’t show the before picture this week but the biggest thing I did to this image was to edit out… Continue reading Star of India
Decadence
After Before Much of what I have been doing these days is about post processing. So I decided to start something new and show the before and after pictures in the blog. We’ll see how it goes. This week I was experimenting with a new plug-in from NIK called Analog Efex Pro. As nearly as… Continue reading Decadence
Car Museum Composite
A blown out tire put a crimp in my plan to photograph along Route 66 in Texas this week. In fact, when I rolled back into New Mexico on my shiney new tires I had about 10 pictures from Cadillac Ranch and another half dozen or so from a grain elevator that caught my eye… Continue reading Car Museum Composite
1923 Nash Roadster
As I was driving around Colorado last week looking for fall color I kept thinking to myself “you know, I’m really not a landscape photographer.” And the truth is I had way more fun shooting the old cars at the Pioneer History Museum in Gunnison. Though I added a lot to my hood ornament collection… Continue reading 1923 Nash Roadster
Singer Sewing Machine
When I saw this sewing machine in a small town museum I just went ho-hum another Singer, click, click. It wasn’t until I got to editing the images that I noticed the Egyptian motif. So I cropped in to focus on the decal. I little research informed me that Singer had many different decals to… Continue reading Singer Sewing Machine