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Valentine’s Day in Maine

Carol (my Valentine) in the sidewalk snow canyon

Carol (my Valentine) in the sidewalk snow canyon

We are bracing ourselves, here in Southern Maine, for what they are already calling the Valentine’s Day Blizzard. 18 inches of fresh snow, winds to 50 mph, and temperatures in the single digits (it is -12 as I write this). And this on top of the 60 inches or more of snow, drifted often to much higher, that we already have on the ground. The piles of snow in the parking lots are reaching three stores high. The industrial grade snowblower tractor that makes canyons out of sidewalks finally made it through the snow plies from the drives along our street yesterday, and Carol came out to pose in the gap for scale. Okay, so Carol is not very tall, but it makes the point.

And, since Carol is my Valentine, it makes a perfect pic for today. 🙂

Sony WX220. Intelligent Auto. 25mm equivalent field of view. ISO 100 @ f3.3 @ 1/500th. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.

Grandpa on his 82th!

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If you follow my Pic 4 Today posts, you know how rarely I post a people pic. I do take them, but they tend to be family record shots of significant events, and the occasional personal portrait in a unique environment…a visual memory of a particular person, a particular time, and a particular place…neither of which I would normally share. This shot is both. Grandpa (my wife’s father, my children’s grandpa) at his informal family 82th birthday celebration. As a portrait, it just about captures the man (or that is what I think. 🙂

As an image, it is interesting as well. It is one of my first shots with my new Sony NEX 3NL and it’s 16-50mm zoom (24-75mm equivalent field of view). Natural light at ISO 3200. 1/15th second hand-held at f5.6 at the long end of the zoom. I am impressed! I did some basic processing in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014, and then some finer color correction for the too warm incandescent lights using the Color Curves tool in dev.macgyver’s Photo Edit. Even at that high an ISO, it holds up well under magnificaiton, and would make an excellent 8×10 print. Not bad at all.

And now, undoubtedly, back to the regularly scheduled program of nature shots! 🙂

12/25/2009

Winter Beach

A Christmas Eve day walk on the winter Parson’s  beach a few miles from home. There is a definite December solstice look to the sky and that deep winter slant to the light of late morning.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Sony DSC H50 at 31mm equivalent. F5.6 @ 1/500th @ ISO 100. Programmed auto.

Added Clarity and just a touch of Vibrance in Lightroom. Recovery for the clouds and sky. Sharpen Landscapes preset.

From Around Home Kennebunk ME.

And here we are: My wife (right most) and two of my 5 daughters. You can see the one on the left (Sarah) takes after her dad, photographically at least. She has a blog…mostly about books…but she posts some images and some travel adventures, at What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate.

9/2/2009

Morning Tea: Carol at the Farmhouse B&B on our last morning.

Morning Walk: Carol at the Farmhouse B&B on our last morning.

Our last morning above Kendal at the farmhouse B&B. We moved that day down to Rutland Water in Leicestershire, and the Barnsdale Hall Resort, for a few days at the British Birding Fair (where I was on-duty at the Zeiss booth).

I like the colors and textures and angles of this shot.

Minolta A1 at about 32mm equivalent. F3.5 @ 1/60 @ ISO 100. Programed auto.

Punch and Sharpen landscape presets in Lightroom.

And that is, for now, the last of the shots from our 2005 trip to the Lakes and Dales.

6/21/2009

Fathers Day Blessings, 4 of my 5 girls and my wife

Father's Day Blessings, 4 of my 5 girls and my wife

Gloom day portrait in Bar Harbor along the seawall, but a reminder that there is more to life than photography, apt for this Father’s Day.

Sony DSC H50 at full wide. F5.0 @ 1/250th @ ISO 100. Programed auto.

Slight cropping in Lightroom. Minimal other processing.

And 3 of the 5 in Asctiou Azalea gardens the next day.

Among the Azaleas

Among the Azaleas