December 31, 2016


My great niece in her girl cave. Walkersville, MD

December 29, 2016


Walkersville, MD

December 27, 2016


Since the previous post mentioned my occasional butterfly-chasing activities, I thought I would show you a typical result. Not art, but fun. Greenville, SC

Sometimes I chase butterflies around the back yard with my camera and macro lens. This year I discovered that, when evening falls and the butterflies disappear, a second shift of moths takes over. By then, focusing is almost impossible and shutter speeds are long, so you have to go for the dreamy look. (BTW, I think this is a Dogbane Tiger Moth.) Greenville, SC

December 25, 2016


Lately I've been trying to post series of pictures that shared some theme or location. But now we'll have a short run of unrelated photos. In the neighborhood, Greenville, SC

December 23, 2016


In the front yard, Greenville, SC

December 21, 2016


In the front yard, Greenville, SC

December 18, 2016


In the front yard, Greenville, SC

December 15, 2016


Every fall, we celebrate the amazing yellowness of the maple tree in our front yard. Greenville, SC

December 12, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

December 9, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

December 6, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

December 3, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

November 30, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

November 27, 2016


Back to the beach for a bit. Folly Beach, SC

November 25, 2016


Altered image, Lido Key, FL

November 21, 2016


Altered image. Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

November 18, 2016


We'll take a break from beach pictures to catch up with some recent altered images. M reading on the couch, Greenville, SC

November 15, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

November 12, 2016


Above the high tide line, Folly Beach, SC

November 9, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

November 6, 2016


I really love the interaction of the water and the sand at the beach. Probably half my beach pictures are of the sand. So, today, we'll start a short series of sand pictures. Folly Beach, SC

November 3, 2016


Full moon rising at Folly Beach, SC

October 31, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

October 28, 2016


Folly Beach, SC

October 25, 2016


In the neighborhood, Greenville, SC

October 22, 2016


Altered image. Downtown Greenville, SC

October 19, 2016


I reworked my "saturated image" program a little, to give me choices about how dark the darker values are rendered. I've found I like most images a little darker than my original program produced. (For those geeks among you, I also converted the color math into the HSV space from the RGB space, which now seems like an obvious thing to do, but I hadn't done it.) We'll have recent examples for the next several posts.

October 16, 2016


The last of the machine pictures. Downtown Greenville, SC

October 13, 2016


Downtown Greenville, SC

October 10, 2016


Downtown Greenville, SC

October 7, 2016


I went downtown to walk around one day and encountered a nice machine. So I took some pictures of it. Several more coming. Greenville, SC

October 4, 2016


This is the last of the (long) current series from Lake Conestee Nature Park. Next post, we'll move on to something else. Conestee, SC

October 2, 2016


Reedy River as it passes through Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 28, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 25, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 22, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 19, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 16, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 13, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 10, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 7, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 4, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

September 1, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

August 29, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

August 26, 2016


Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

August 23, 2016


After a very hot and sunny June and July, we finally got some cloudy days in August. Cloudy days are when you pick up your camera and head to the woods. We'll now start a fairly long series of Lake Conestee Nature Park pictures. Lake Conestee Nature Park, Conestee, SC

August 20, 2016


Downtown Greenville, SC

August 17, 2016


Downtown Greenville, SC

August 14, 2016


Downtown Greenville, SC