An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks



Knee deep in lunchtime

I pulled up this summer shot to remind me of warmer times, if only as a break between bouts of snow-shoveling…

Dozing

Going back to last summer’s Seattle trip for this one. Here’s a sleepy resident of the local aquarium…

Waiting for better weather

Today’s picture serves both as a travel shot, and a warning…

My father was a pistil…

…so that makes me a “son of a gun!”

Allograpta obliqua

I don’t recall what kind of flower my little subject is on, but I really like this macro shot:

It’s a handy thing, Flickr. Based on this little guy’s coloring I thought he must be some sort of wasp — but I’ve been told it’s a hover fly (a.k.a., a flower fly). I took [...]

Taking a break

A damselfly takes a little breather in St. Louis:

I like how the bokeh turned out in this, but obviously still have to work on my depth of field — his tail is far less sharp than I’d like it to be.

Heading out

A little twilight action in San Diego Bay…

Lotus, antiqued

So now I’m experimenting with texture layers in Photoshop Elements. Here’s my first run at making my first Lotus image from a few days back look antiqued:

In case you wanted to try something like this, and to record for myself how to do this again, here’s what to do…
First, start with a really [...]

And to think it used to be such a *nice* neighborhood…

This image comes from a shuttered salmon cannery in George Inlet (near Ketchikan), Alaska:

Back when the cannery was running, this was where the (white) managers lived. The workers, all Asian (primarily Chinese) were kept in considerably less comfortable and more hastily-built quarters that have long since collapsed. So while the building may be [...]

Waiting…

Normally, I try to avoid getting “butt shots” of insects, but sometimes that’s the only angle you can shoot from…