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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'

San Francisco Bay from San Bruno Mountain State an

San Francisco Bay from San Bruno Mountain State and County Park - 9 November 2004, a cloudy/rainy day. If you look closely, Candlestick Park is visible in the upper right quadrant. Kinda small on the web, though.

I originally shot this as the right eye view in a pair for a 3D anaglyph frame. In digging through the archives to test out a LUT, this seemed like a candidate for processing. I like how it came out.

#SanFrancisco #BayArea #CandlestickPark #Baseball #Football #Stadium #landscape #scenic #vista #weather #SanBrunoMountain #park .

A little colorization project to pass some Coronav

Saving Errors - April 2009 - Imperial Summer Palac

Saving Errors - April 2009 - Imperial Summer Palace, Beijing, China

So, you know how hard it is keeping up with fellow tourists. The guide holds up her sign and everybody has to stop looking around and move with the group. Time is limited at each location.

Not far inside the Summer Palace there was this stunning bronze figure of a peacock. I grabbed a couple of shots but had to move with the crowd. I didn't even have time to do any seious composing. Snap-'n-run was the order of the day.

When I got home and began processing my captures, disappointment quickly set in. For sure, I managed a few decent frames, but some of the ones I most wanted were . . . flawed, among them being both of my shots of the peacock.

I straightened the better one, but the peacock's head was cropped because it was framed too tightly. D'Oh! The second one had plenty of headroom, but the base was cut off. D'Oh! And I really, really wanted that peacock shot.

I chose what you see in the first shot: I enlarged the #Photshop canvas and straightened the photo without cropping it to keep the whole figure visible. I added a white stroke to set it apart from the black background. That would have to do.

Meanwhile, Adobe's continually updated features got good enough to consider merging the two original shots-- but the problem was that I had moved and changed perspective slightly. D'Oh! But I already have a flat forhead from continually banging it on my photographic . . . skills. So I tried anyway, and with some #photomerge trial and error along with some #clonestamp and some manual #transform warping, I finally came up with the second frame. (Scroll to see it!) I have to say, though, the first tilted one is the better shot. I have to remember to leave a little more space around the subject. Problem solved!
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#travel #China #Beijing #SummerPalace #peacock #bronze #travelphotography .

At Leeds Castle - May 2004 It was a bit of a rain

At Leeds Castle - May 2004

It was a bit of a rainy day, but during a brief dry-ish period I snapped a few shots around the grounds. This picturesque thatched cottage in a lush green setting naturally drew my attention.

With a better camera this would have been a fabulous shot, but that was not to be. I have banged my head on this photo many times looking for the magic fix. Alas! Original JPEG quality was below par, so I may have waved the #Photoshop wand over it for a final time.
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#travel #Europe #England #Maidstone #Kent #LeedsCastle #thatchedcottage #scenic #2004 .

The giant marionettes of Xian at the Terracotta Ar

The giant marionettes of Xian at the Terracotta Army excavation site and museum. April 2009.

These oversized marionettes were apparently built for and used during the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In contrast to the giant Terracotta Soldier on wires, the typical Terracotta Soldier was a mere five or so feet tall. I don't remember what the placque said about the symbolism of the giant guy and the "little" girl, but only that they represented something something about history and/or culture. You know, all that stuff of weighty meaning when it's said but means nothing much after.
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#travel #China #Xian #TerracottaArmy #history #terracottawarriors #terracotta #travelphotography #warriors #history #西安 #traveling #terracotawarriors #shaanxi #army #qinshihuang #explore #guerrerosdeterracota #travelling #trip #warrior #ancient #qindynasty #Shanxi #museum .

Tower Bridge, London, UK -- July 2005 An old phot

Tower Bridge, London, UK -- July 2005

An old photo run through a new wash-'n-rinse cycle. Considering the camera it was captured with, not to mention the artifacts baked into the original JPEG, I kinda like this rendition.
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#Travel #Europe #England #UnitedKingdom #TowerBridge #Thames #river #water #weather #bridges #LigjtroomCC #Photoshop .

An alpine meadow across the valley from Innsbruck,

An alpine meadow across the valley from Innsbruck, Austria, from the tower of the Olympic ski-jump - April 2006.
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#Travel #Europe #Austria #Österreich #Innsbruck #Olympics #Skiing #Skijump #mountains #vista #scenic #landscape #2008 #winter #Alps #Alpen #alpine .

Terminus Nord, Paris, May 2004. This was sort of

Terminus Nord, Paris, May 2004.

This was sort of my first view of Paris. We had taken the Eurostar train from London- it was still based at Waterloo Station in those days. Leaving at around 7:00 a.m., we arrived at Gare du Nord around 10:30. The trip across the French countryside was fascinating; I'd never been on the continent before.

After making our way through customs (non-Euro passports, you know?), we were herded onto a bus across the street from the Terminus Nord Hotel and Restaurant from where I took a couple of shots through the window.

There were a couple of glaring problems: an out-of-focus orange reflection on the glass, the sky was completely washed out and the little auto at bottom-center and the silver car next to it were complete distractions.

So, many attempts and dozens of hours over more than 15 years combined with much improved #Lightroom and #Photoshop, as well as acquired skills, here is what I have finally come up with. Did I menrion the crummy little camera that produced the original JPEG? Yeah, that too.
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#travel #Europe #France #Paris #GareDuNord #TerminusNord #Photoshop #Lightroom

A heavy downpour on the Highlands of Glencoe, Scot

A heavy downpour on the Highlands of Glencoe, Scotland, 4 October 2019.
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#Travel #Scotland #Glencoe #Highlands #ScottishHighlands #GreatBritain #UnitefKingdom #Weather #storm #rain #landscapes #landscapephotography #mountains .

Kennedy Space Center - December 2018. The stars 'n

Kennedy Space Center - December 2018. The stars 'n stripes on the pavement are the same scale as the flag painted on the building.
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#Travel #Florida #KennedySpaceCenter #CapeCanaveral #space #rockets #flag #boomerang #hangar .

Doune, Scotland - 4 October 2019. . . . #Travel #E

Doune, Scotland - 4 October 2019.
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#Travel #Europe #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #scenic #landscape .

Edinburgh skyline from Arthur's Seat - 4 October 2

Edinburgh skyline from Arthur's Seat - 4 October 2019
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#travel #Europe #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Edinburgh #EdinburghScotland #scenic #vista #ArthursSeat

🙏🏻 THANK YOU EVERYONE! 🙏🏻 Interestingl

🙏🏻 THANK YOU EVERYONE! 🙏🏻 Interestingly, my most liked posts in 2019 are from the first half of the year. Something changed with IG about halfway through-- changed algorithm or something-- but likes dropped to about 50% of historical numbers sometime around July.

Nevertheless, I thank each one who has gifted me with their appreciation for my efforts!

Tall Trees. On a cliff. In Scotland. In the Highla

Tall Trees. On a cliff. In Scotland. In the Highlands. 3 October 2019 . . . The video is an experiment done in #Photoshop. The #panorama is made from four hand-held portrait aspect frames.
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#Travel #Europe #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #ScotlandHighlands #ScottishHighlands #Highlands #trees #vertorama #panoramaphotography

Glencoe, Scottish Highlands - A scrollable panoram

Glencoe, Scottish Highlands - A scrollable panorama made in #Lightroom from two frames captured on 4 October 2019.
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#Travel #Europe #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #ScottishHighlands #Glencoe #panorama #landscape #scenic #vista

April 1981- The San Francisco Peaks viewed from a

April 1981- The San Francisco Peaks viewed from a moving car on U.S. 180 northwest of Flagstaff, Arizona on the way to the Grand Canyon.

This is a slide scanned on a long since discontinued HP film & photo scanner. I was disappointed with the results at the time- around 20 years ago- and the file has languished on a series of computers and drives ever since. But, you know- nostagia improves a lot of things!😂 So when I came across this scan accidentally, I thought, "I should take another whack at that!" I still pretty much hate the scan result, but I do enjoy the challenge of dragging something out of my photographic disasters. Processing was all in Lightroom. I went a little heavy on the post-crop vignette to try and hide some blown out clouds. I also added grain to, strangely enough, hide the some of film grain. I'm not fully convinced that a new scan might not turn out better, but my Epson V600 is in the box under the desk with no working ETA. I have a couple thousand slides, negatives and prints begging to be scanned. But ... labor. Ugh!

#Travel #Arizona #GrandCanyon #SanFranciscoPeaks #landscape #landscapephotography #desert #InMotion #mountains #scanned #slides .

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