Light is on, Jim

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Took this one on the phone, pulled it onto my Mac. Opened it using VintageScene, available in the App Store for $7.99. It’s one way to get a filtered look for not a lot of money and is easy to use. In this case, I lost a lot of the blacks, which is what happens a lot in VintageScene, so I saved it out as a TIFF (VintageScene will save PNG, JPG and TIFF) and then pulled it into Photoshop and did a bunch of layer adjustments. This kept the texture and crazy filters, but gave me much more control over the color. I saved it from inside Photoshop as a layered TIFF and did a Save for Web to minimize any JPEG artifacts that would distract from the texture and color choices.

Gabrielle Giffords Leading the Pledge of Allegiance

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords led a huge crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance at a candlelight vigil in Tucson, Ariz. on Sunday. The event was held to remember a shooting there one year ago that killed six people, and wounded Giffords and others:

Pretty amazing to watch, considering the awfulness of that day a year ago. As the reports came in of the shooting, especially the reports that Giffords was shot in the head, I never expected to see her survive, much less do something like this.

Short Afternoons

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This is one of my favorite times of year for light in the afternoon. That we have no snow on the ground and I can shoot without gloves is a plus. This one is from my phone, fed through the Mac version of Grungetastic and then into Photoshop for further tweakage. As I was working on this, I noticed a delicate seed clinging to the tree. I was going to crop the image and resize it for posting, but I liked the larger image better. I’ve included a detail below just to show you what I’m talking about:

So lovely.