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February Afternoon

Bare trees stretch up in bright light near dormant vegetation, in chilly air, in a park, near highway traffic, beside enough room to walk, a chance to do something creative.

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New York Town

I caught the subway and went downtown. Helvetica lettering pointed the way. Passenger cars rocked, rattled, and clanked in the dark, and a platform musician sang Country Roads. People smiled on the boat to the Statue of Liberty, and Manhattan’s mountains rose above the harbor, where I later walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, picturing it as I would in a dry, dusty town.

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HEIC

Who wants to fidget with large raw files? A JPEG is good enough, and now we have 10-bit HEIC.

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Seeing Layers

The 50mm lens is more front-to-back than side-to-side and compresses things together, perfect for layering foregrounds over backgrounds.

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Hot, Dry, and Flat

Follow me to Amarillo, TX. It’s pretty simple. I take pictures to see my editing.

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TX, Potter, Amarillo, Tyler & 10th

2009-‘10

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Lower Contrast

Because digital pictures look contrasty, use Neutral picture profiles.

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Comet

On October 23rd, we went west of Penwell to see the comet.

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Warming

Warming filters, where have you been my whole life? A wide open sky in West Texas creates a blue color cast, and the warming filter, when white balance is set to daylight, removes it.

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Lightroom

We need to be clear about what Adobe Lightroom is and not. Lightroom is software that lets us organize, edit, and develop a personal style. It’s not where we will see our camera’s best imaging quality.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark I Classic

With its simple menus and introductory features, only a few SLRs have remained as loved as the 5D.

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High Lonesome

It’s a one-room bus stop near desert mountains.

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Solar Eclipse

We would have chased totality if the forecast had been better, but we stayed in West Texas.

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Changing Barstow

Barstow, Texas (2010, 2021)

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Sandhills

Monahans Sandhills State Park, Windmill, and Texas & Pacific Section House

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Pecos

Mile-long trains dashed across a desolate plain. I sat in our 70’s Buick Skylark, listened to Hank Williams on cassette, and let derelict buildings fill my eyes. My mother accepted a teaching job in Pecos during the eighties oil bust.

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New Monochrome

With a print, I’ll sit with a two-dimensional surface and see tonal variations throughout. I’ll eye lines and shapes and bring meaning to what’s constructed inside my mind.