This past March I posted about switching from Adobe Lightroom for photo management to Alien Skin Exposure x3 and while missing a few Lightroom features I’ve been overall happy with my decision to switch. A few days ago Alien Skin released a major update, Exposure X4 with noticeably faster performance (always nice) as well as…
There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that’s born, bears in its womb the seeds of change. — Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil…
As hurricane Florence comes ashore in Wilmington, NC this morning I am reminded of the many roles it takes to prepare for such an event and then to react to it once it happens. Over a million people have orderly evacuated from the coastal areas and for the most part, it’s been very organized and peaceful….
“John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First, he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army.” For pleasure, I’ve been rereading the “Old Man’s War” series by John Scalzi which is a future set science fiction space drama. In the story, mankind has established many human colonies on different worlds in space,…
I’m still “roaming” my photo archives and you’ve perhaps noticed the wide range and variance of the images I’m posting these days…from the enhanced color and semi-painting style in my posts “Golden Hours” and “Dancing by the Fire” to a high contrast black and white image featured here…and of course all those in between. I’ll never settle…