Some images taken along Wagontown Rd of the West Branch of the Brandywine Creek in Hibernia Park.
Hope you enjoyed!
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It is the Monday after Skip’s BIG 30th High School Reunion, and unlike Las Vegas, things do not stay there!
He could not afford to spend much time, but he did manage to visit some of the more cherished places.
It is hard to believe that over 30 years ago, Skip first walked down this same slate path into his future…
As he walked through the doors and passed the various announcement boards and into the common room, where he paused and looked.
There it was, at the other end of the dining hall.
The mural of the school’s foundation, that stared at him, during all his meals those many years ago.
He walked down the small set of stairs, and moved into the room, where he took this picture.
In the back of his mind, he heard a little voice saying he was about to receive three marks.
He scampered the rest of the way into the hallway, turning right and headed out to to the lawn.
While taking this picture, the clock bells chimed, triggering a distance memory of days gone by, and reminding him that his time to leave was closely approaching.
He walked back across the lawn, reentering the building, looking for that room where he made another cameo appearance several years back.
Snickering to himself, he knew he had to get back to his boat.
He stayed just long enough for the Class Reunion photo…
With that, he was off.
I wish to dispel a myth…
For years, folks have accused me of NEVER logging off the internet…
I DO!
At LEAST once a week, during the spring, summer and fall!
You want Proof?
How is that?
I setup my camera in the far corner of my yard, and used my iPod Touch and TriggerTrap to record the “session”…
Then in Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1, I combined over 30 individual images into a composite, which you see above.
This was very painful, and required a lot of RAM and numerous files… and ‘Yes”, I’m still 32-bit…
But the end result, I have ‘proof’ that I have done ‘work’ outside of the internet!
I am still working on a proposal to ‘off shore’ this task to non-terrestrials…
Details to follow…
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Some images taken during a recent spring time walk around Stroud Preserve.
All images were shot in ‘traditional’ HDR bracket fashion, and processed into a ‘raw’ combined HDR file.
Normally, I use Adobe Photoshop to do my B&W conversion, but since the Google/Nik Software upgrade, I now had a chance to play with Silver Efex Pro 2.
Photoshop is great for doing a straight conversion via the native B&W menu, but to explore other options, quickly, and then build on them, Silver Efex Pro is the answer.
I still used Photoshop to tweak the final files, but I ended up in a different place than I originally envisioned.
So, what do you think?
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Here is this weeks addition to Manipulation Monday!
What do you think?
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