Piazza San Pietro, originally uploaded by vsacker. First of all, this is my first attempt to post straight from Flickr, so we’ll see how this goes… A little later in the week than I would have liked, I got around to processing an older image. This is actually four images stitched together with software from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]