“Stop thinking about artworks as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that’s inside it but something that happens inside you.” ― Brian Eno https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20200619082658-1.jpg Confession time, I’m a box hoarder. I’d like to keep original boxes for any substantial…
I made this photo of a woman sitting alone at an outdoor café on the streets of Venice, Italy, during a visit in July 2012. It was a quick single shot and I only knew I’d totally blown the focus later when downloading and viewing the images. I’d almost deleted the soft-focused image several times…
https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20200612082240-750×1000.jpg “Terraformed” When something takes a path unintended I always try to understand the moment and look for potential. This photo was made with a totally different expectation for a final product than what you see here. A simple textured photo wash applied by random chance changed my perception and with it the development of…
If created correctly it’s not the future which you’ll view. https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20160123141232-3.jpg I have a vast Youtube backlog of Affinity Photo (AP)1 training/how-to videos awaiting my efforts to learn more about the App. Many of the videos are on areas, features, and usages of AP I may not need in day-to-day photo editing, but to my…
What this is and is not: These are my test performance numbers for processing a 60Mb TIF photo file in both Topaz Denoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI on my late 2018 Mac Mini. I tested using the three different settings available in each application: processing with just the CPU; processing using eGPU; and processing…
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20200606133529.jpg Gladiolus Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial cormous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae). …