I’ve been experimenting with Photoshop’s Generative AI process. This is a photograph that I took in November of 2011, shortly after Skyler gave me a Nikon camera and two lenses: I recently revisited this photograph in Photoshop and used the Photoshop Generative AI to make a few different versions: And […]
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Ever since the beginning of the pandemic when I started working from home, I haven’t taken as many photos as I was pre-pandemic. Commuting to and from work each day prior to the pandemic gave me many opportunities to see lots of interesting things and sights to photograph. Staying at […]
I came across part of a sentence today that struck me as very interesting. The sentence was part of a description that Thomas Pynchon wrote about a novel published in 1966 by Richard Fariña. Richard Fariña’s book is titled “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me”. A […]
Here’s another post that combines two weeks-worth of Nicolesy 52 Photo Challenge topics: week 24: Reflection and week 25: Contrasting Color.
The week 4 Nicolesy 52 photo challenge is “Motion Blur”. Here are a few examples of photos that I have taken applying this concept. Ellie’s artwork and the “shut the box” game photos are those I took this week and submitted for the challenge. The other photos weren’t taken for […]
The walk was in our neighborhood in Olathe, Kansas. The drive was through Kansas City, Missouri and Olathe, Kansas.
Lake Olathe Park is just a hop, skip and a jump from our house in Olathe. I got the whim to head over there just before sunset. This was two days before I went to Beaver Shelter to get the sunset photo of the tree by the lake. These photos […]
Lisa and I have been considering getting a trampoline. We read some reviews and decided to order one online. A few days after placing the order, we were told that the trampoline was on back-order and that it was unknown how long it would take to be back in stock. […]
I was reminded the other day of something that I wrote to my sons in 2015, so I thought I’d share an edited version of what I wrote to them. At the time I wrote to my sons, I had been thinking a lot about my experiences playing disc golf […]
I decided that it was time to swap the snow tires on my truck with the summer tires and this is what I saw on the way there.
I’ve been asked, “Why fire hydrants?”. To answer that, I’ll mention my friend, Les Oswald. Les is an artist, photographer and videographer; and I’ve known Les since January, 1979. Les started a photo album on FaceBook with this statement and question: “Fire hydrants: always there, always ready. But are they […]