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Death of a Goldfish

Posted on December 4th, 2008 by James

Keeping with the late-week posting of an old photo, I found this shot of a goldfish cracker lost by my daughter outside the house on the way to the pool this summer.  Within the short time we were down at the pool, the ants came out to play and went to town on their unexpected [...]

Stimulating the Economy

Posted on November 30th, 2008 by James

You’d think with a long weekend (especially one with a family holiday), there would be plenty of opportunities to take some pictures.  Well, we managed to spend much of our time trying to decide how best to blow spend our money.  As such, I only took a couple of pictures this weekend of the two-digit [...]

Skunk Works Best?

Posted on November 28th, 2008 by James

In keeping with my attempt to process an old image once a week, here’s my latest blog photo. Back in March, our nephew came to visit and we all took a trip to the Udvar-Hazy annex to the Smithsonian Air & Space museum.  I took a few pictures, but never got around to doing much [...]

Weekend Photo

Posted on November 24th, 2008 by James

I’ve never been great at keeping up with a blog, photo or otherwise.   Because of that, I refuse to promise any kind of regular photo posts, but I’m trying.  My ultimate goal would be to post two photos a week – one new capture for the week and one old one that I never got [...]

Sharpening with High Pass Filter

Posted on November 17th, 2008 by James

I’m late to the game on this trick, but I just learned it today so I think it’s pretty cool.  I’ve been sharpening images with Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask for quite a while.  It has worked pretty well for me, though it isn’t terribly easy to selectively apply or adjust after the fact.  Enter the Hgh [...]