Textured

I continue to want to move away from excruciatingly "sharp" images.  Textures appear to be one way to accomplish it.  Going to take a while to get it, for the moment using recipes.  This is a redo of the OOB  pier shot from mid-June.

The Flypaper Textures recipe:

Burnished Clay - Overlay @ 100%
Lime Plaster - Multiply @ 73% flipped vertically
Labyrinth - Overlay @ 100% Desaturated
Stygian tin - Soft Light @ 100% Desaturated with bottom brushed away.
Lime Plaster - Multiplied @ 55% flipped vertically
Nuriel Clouds - Soft Light @ 100% Desaturated
Nuriel Clouds - color @ 21% Desaturated

OOB

Old Orchard Beach on a not very nice day in mid June.  The "Carnival" is apparently open only on weekends, at least this early in the season and parkas were more appropriate and more in evidence than bathing suits. Cloudy and cold — empty streets, empty beach. The rest in the gallery, click here or the snap below to see. All with the X100.

Fort Williams

Better know for its big attraction — The Portland Head Light.  On Cape Elizabeth, south of Portland.  A typical port protection artillery battery that also happens to host a great looking lighthouse, a rocky shore and view to the Rams Head Lighthouse in the distance.  Click here or on the snap below to see the gallery with the rest.

All from the Fuji X100.  The all over the place white balances are the result of the clouds and my adjustment approach not the camera.  Some were done on the Mac Book Air some on the Mac Pro, different days different outlooks, whatever – so they just turned out different.

September of '62

Long, long time ago...  But right here is where I first met Messers Weber and Lowe all of us rising frosh at St. Iggy's, just at the top of the stairs. I haven't been there since December of 1963 and since the indoor-outsoor stuff hadn't been invented yet, or at least commercialized, I know it wasn't there.  The rest looks pretty much the same, although the chain link fence just to left out of the frame seems to be a replacement for what I remember as a rusty old one.  

Lots of rust in Sanford, ME, a town in the mid 1950's that Life Magazine said refused to die.  Well die is realtive, the mill buildings have been vacant for far longer than they were used.  Renewal efforts seem to result in money spent for little value, the bike path/curved parkway/elegant street lamps appears to have delivered little for the $2.2M spent.  

The last snap in the gallery is from Little Ossipee Pond in Waterboro.  Fifty year ago a rope hung from the tree — anti-progress through the use of tax dollars, I guess. For more Sanford area snaps, click here or the snap below.  All taken with the X100.

Footgear diversification

So... the SO, perhaps in honor of National Flip-Flop Day, that being neatly attached behind Bloom's Day, bestowed upon me last night, somewhat belatedly in relation to their actual date of acquisition, a pair of flip-flops, from Vineyard Vines no less, or maybe that should be of course. For a sexagenarian, recieving his first pair ever, this brings back pre-denarian memories of the first pair of ice skates and an equal measure, exacerbated and exponentiated by decades of risk management, of fear of an ER visit in the offing.  A Bloom's Day, Duke Street stop in at Davy Byrnes and a couple of pints would certainly increase the odds.

Well, the web-world does not need to witness the photo taken to memorialize this event, so instead, I offer, an analogous snap, featuring other footgear diversification, taken on Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of the Newseum, last weekend.  Done up in SilverEfex Pro's Film Noir preset. Now that make me feel artsy — as if flip-flops weren't enuf of a paradigm shift.  X100, after being Film Noired — the settings don't much matter.

Photo walk in Butcher's Hill

Out in the neighborhood with X100, late afternoon, on Sunday of the long Memorial Day weekend. Only two here one landscape orientation the other portrait,  Links to the rest in two galleries segregated by orientation. All with the X100, ISO 800, most at f/4.0.

The Landscape anchor, for more click here or on the snap.

And the portrait anchor, for these click here or on the snap.

The NGA

The National Mall fallback, the NGA — take snaps of people who think the snaps are of the art.  All with the X100, ISO 3200, mostly f/2.0 and f/2.8.  Some days only the device clicks.  Hah!

Six years and two weeks ago

May 2005, Death Valley, CA.  I saw some Death Valley shots on the web and recalled several days of my own in Death Valley en-route to a firm Partner Retreat in Lake Las Vegas, NV.  

The first shot is from Furnace Creek, late in the afternoon of the first day. Shot with the same 24.0-70.0 f/2.8 I still have but mounted on the now trickled-down Canon 10D.  f/16 at .5 seconds, 62mm, ISO 100 on the still in use Gitzo with the RRS ball head. Post processed with the current Nashification recipe.

The bank in Ryholite, NV, on the way to Lake Las Vegas. Looks the same as everyone else's photo of this building.  Also shot with the same 24.0-70.0 f/2.8 on the Canon 10D,  f/16 at 1/20 seconds, 50mm, ISO 100 and post processed with the current Nashification recipe.

Yet one more...

from Veranda #4.  Different approach for this one though — 5d Mk II, in portrait orientation with RRS L Bracket on the floor.  Three shot exposure bracket around 1/60 @ f/16.0 and 17mm with the 17-40mm f/4L. HDR Efex and Silver Efex.  Basically something to do between the LAX games and the Colonial going on.  Bit of a dilemma in the the last LAX quarter finals — why can't both Duke and ND lose?

National Maritime Day

Some snaps around the N.S. Savannah and the National Maritime Day proceedings.  X100 all, mostly single shot here for the exterior, while the prior post is all HDR for the N.S. Savannah interior.

Baltimore City Fire Department Fireboat "John R. Frazier"

N.S Savannah I

N.S Savannah II

Bow and the gypsum factory

Stern

Lots of lines

Pride of Baltimore.  The gray ball floating in between the stays is the nose of the Goodyear Blimp, in town for the running of The Preakness

Damn the torpedoes