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St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, CZ - on the morning

St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, CZ - on the morning of Sunday, 10th February 2008.
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#travel #Europe #CZ #CzechRepublic #Czechia #Prague #Praha #PragueCastle #StVitusCathedral #cathedral #Church #prag #českárepublika #architecture #medieval .

A wet and *very* windy day in the Scottish Highlan

A wet and *very* windy day in the Scottish Highland area known as Glencoe - 3 October 2019

#travel #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #Glencoe #clouds #rain #wind #cold #river #weather #landscape #landscapephotography #scenery .

Actor George Sanders - colorized. My latest color

Saint George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Be

Saint George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, UK - April 2006

The figures are known as The Queen's Beasts, representing the Royal supporters of England in the forms of the fourteen heraldic animals.

This is the photo I should have taken, but they say hindsight is 20/20, which is often true of photos taken in the press of time while navigating a popular tourist attraction.
Scroll -->to see the original shot.

The severely cropped and enlarged frame has been heavily processed to reduce noise, maximize sharpness and detail and restore/repair some color (the spears, mainly).
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#travel #UnitedKingdom #England #Windsor #WindsorCastle #StGeorgesChapel #church #cathedral #OrderOfTheGarter #RoyalPeculiar #QueensBeasts .

Yu Garden, also known as Yuyuan Garden - Shanghai,

Yu Garden, also known as Yuyuan Garden - Shanghai, China - April 2009

During our last full day in Shanghai we visited the Yu Garden, a place of supposed tranquility and peace adjacent to the Yuyuan tourist shopping district. It's a bit difficult to find the tranquility while hundreds-- nay, thousands of tourists, foreign and domestic, are jostling one another in narrow passages and pathways. It is, nevertheless, a well kept and beautiful place.

This photo rendition started out as a re-do of something I did eleven years ago. It took way longer than it should have because after messing around trying to fix what I considered faults in the old version, I realized that I just didn't like it. Not fixable with the old ideas. So it was back to the original raw file and a new approach.

The sky was a blue-gray haze. Nothing to do there, so I borrowed a 2014 sky from Washington DC. The highest point on the roof was just kissing the top of the frame, so I enlarged the canvass using 5x4 aspect ratio-- enough so that there would be sufficient head room. That left empty space on the sides, and I was going to use a white fill to "hide" it, but in the end I went for black because, according to my tastes, it suits the content better.

#Travel #China #Shanghai #YuGarden #YuyuanGarden #Photoshop #SkyReplacement .

Dunkeld Cathedral - Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland

Dunkeld Cathedral - Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland - 03 October 2019

On the site of Christian worship since the 6th century, this cathedral was begun in the mid 13th century and finished in 1318. It was ransacked in 1560 during the Reformation and portions remain under reconstruction even now. It still, however has served as a parish church using the restored Choir since 1600. It is part of The Church of Scotland.
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#Travel #Tourism #Europe #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Perthshire #Dunkeld #cathedral #ChurchOfScotland #Reformation #ruins #RiverTay .

Jade carving - Beijing, China - April 2009 When y

Jade carving - Beijing, China - April 2009

When you book a typical bus tour of cities/regions in China, you are taken to all the historical sites and attractions as expected. But you are also "provided" with "shopping opportunities" multiple times a day throughout your visit. Most days your lunch will be scheduled at a "restaurant" attached to a factory of some sort so that before your mid-day meal you will be led on a tour, so that after eating, you will be full of lunch and more susceptible to a sales pitch.

These are not hard sell events by any means, but they are a daily feature of your trip-- not to say that the tours aren't educational and interesting, just that there is little escape from the inevitability of two or three "shopping opportunities" a day.

One such lunch/tour stop was a Jade carving factory outside Beijing on the way to The Great Wall. There are some exceedingly beautiful pieces on display-- and for sale-- as well as a couple of young artists working with a combination of traditional and modern tools to create new pieces of jade art.

This piece was in a glass display case. I had to remove items (in the photo) from the display as well as removing reflections from the harsh florescent lighting in the room. And I had to repair the background. Lastly, I did a bit of relighting to the lower portion of the display. All in all, I'm reasonably satisfied with the results. Swipe ----> to see the photo I started with.
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#travel #China #Beijing #tourbus #art #jadecarving #jade #stonecarving #stone #jadestone #greenstone #ChineseJade #greenjade #chineseart #nephrite #sculpture .

Unidentified Ziegfeld Model - 1920s Adding a litt

Unidentified Ziegfeld Model - 1920s

Adding a little color to our present shared bleakness with this project that took longer than it should have. The main problem was the mess behind her on the left— completely blown out details and very distracting. I tried a few things, but ultimately my current skill set and methods couldn’t overcome the big bright spot. (I still use a mouse for everything!) Color choices are entirely arbitrary.

Anyway, here she is, whoever she is, all colored up.
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#colorization #colourized #model #ziegfeldgirl #almostnaked .

Stereo Transformer! - San Bruno Mountain State and

Stereo Transformer! - San Bruno Mountain State and County Park- 08 October 2004.

One of my very early stereo photoography experiments freshly re-processed from the original pair. Get out your red/cyan glasses and swipe to see the anaglyph version.

This is just outside the building where I used to look after a Low Power TV station. It was great having 24/7 access to the mountain top site.

This one was always one of my favorites, although being a novice using the handheld side-step method, I both stepped a bit further than I should have, and I rotated horizontally just a tad.
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#stereoscopic #anaglyph #3dphoto #3dphotography #stereophotography #freeview #parallelphotography #crosseyephotography #photoshop .

A storm drops buckets-full on the mountains and va

A storm drops buckets-full on the mountains and valley of Glencoe, Scotland - 04 October 2019
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#travel #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Glencoe #weather #storm #rain #cloudburst #vista #scenic #panorama #landscape #lanscapephotography #LightroomClassic
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May 2004 - The London Eye, viewed through a dirty

May 2004 - The London Eye, viewed through a dirty window on the west catwalk of Tower Bridge.

This is cropped in quite a bit from the original- it's maybe a quarter of the shot . Even in its straight-out-of-the-camera form, the window added a natural grain that substantially softened things, but I have run this through every #Lightroom wash-dry-iron trick I could think of to get this sort of stylized end product. As I seem to often say about my photo rescues, "I kinda like it."
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#travel #UnitedKingdom #England #London #TowerBridge #LondonEye #ferriswheel .

Kensington Gardens, London, UK - 6 April 2006 It'

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