About the only aspect of DSLR photography I do not enjoy is neck strain. DSLR’s are not intolerably heavy, but after carrying the weight of the body and a lens all day it begins weigh a bit heavy on one’s shoulders. The normal neck strap of most DSLRs, while simple and positioned to make the…
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Boat house at sunset
Yesterday evening my wife and I took a walk along the Delaware just as the Sun was setting. We happened by the Riverton Yacht Club 1 as the colors of the sky began to glow, backlighting it’s iconic boathouse. Other than a jpeg conversion from RAW, this photo has not been altered in any way….
Sparkling Water
A busy day today, and busy night last night. As I did some of my “pastoral rounds,” however, I decided to bring my camera along. It’s a bit hazy today, but Lightroom’s dehaze feature did a very nice job clearing things up. I brought down the luminance of the water a bit, and brought up the…
Creative utilities
Yesterday I picked up a package of Mac productivity apps. For me, the big sell was a Word Processor called Mellel. Ever since I began writing in Markdown and using Scrivener I don’t use traditional word processors all that much any more, so it’s an unusual purchase for me. Melee is supposed to be good…
Isn’t it iconic?
I don’t often take photos of people. It’s probably my introverted nature, but pointing at camera at a person feels like a violation of personal space – even when those people are out in public with no reasonable expectation of privacy 1. When people are pictured in my photo walks I’ll often capture their likeness…
Water colored
Yesterday the Philly area returned to the gloomy skies we had been under the week before. Around 5 o’clock, however, something wonderful happened. The clouds thinned and finally broke, revealing lovely blues and pinks as the Sun began its descent to the horizon. After a day of rain the humidity was up rather high, but…
