West End Funk
On the first day of 2025, the weather was iffy. Wind and potential rain were in the forecast. I saw an opening around …
Photography
Writings on photography, reading photographs, looking at photographs, seeing, the art of photography, critical thoughts.
Toning Monochrome Images
In the days of darkroom photography, many photographers toned their B&W photographs for various reasons ranging from …
Intersect Lightroom Masks
Lightroom Masks From the early days of Lightroom to today, it has changed in many substantive ways. The relatively new …
Arcadia Management Area
Arcadia is Rhode Island’s largest public recreation area with over 14,000 acres of land, lakes, ponds, and trails. …
Fungus Among Us
A week ago Sunday, Jan and I decided to go out and see the new public art on Weybossett Street in Providence. It was on …
Photo Studio Session At
Newport Car Museum
Steve asked me to join him for a photo shoot at the Newport Car Museum studio a week ago Sunday. It was a very nice …
Remove Unwanted Reflections
in Photoshop
My friend Steve Szydlowski has been photographing exotic cars for the Newport Car Museum and recently complained about …
Heritage Photo Auctions – October 2024
Whenever I get a notice of an upcoming photo auction from Heritage Auctions, I make a beeline to the site and spend one …
Public Parks Around Us – 2
I was talking about the public parks in Rhode Island and presented views from two of them in the previous post. This is …
Public Parks Around Us – 1
The availability of public parks is a great service provided by the state or the cities. Since Rhode Island has a very …
A Mural Rich in Local Cultural Symbolism
We got the tip from our neighbor that he had finished priming a new wall and a new mural could start in a few days. By …
The Great Elephant Migration
Public art comes in many forms. We experienced an impressive collection of elephant sculptures on the grounds of Salve …