Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

 
The weather was perfect, but the raw images from Sunday's photo safari were disappointingly lackluster. Irfanview's automatic color adjustment helped (it seems to enhance brightness & contrast while tinkering RGB values), but the results were a tad garish for my taste until I dialed back the color saturation. These are as close to what I remember seeing as I can get with a free image editor.


      Hilltop - Howeville Rd, Fitzwilliam NH
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      Village Cemetery - Fitzwilliam NH
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      Scott Brook from Rte 12 - Fitzwilliam NH
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      "The Flats" - Templeton Rd/Tpke, Fitzwilliam NH
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Millers & Otter River confluence - Birch Hill WMA, Winchendon MA
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      Jewelry - Lake Dennison rec area, Winchendon MA
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(This one is unretouched)

shades of gray winter light
saturating the photograph
as equally as the mind
with a warmer bath of brown contrast
to remind us these are the colors of december

and the fog rolls in
quietly blocking our view of vistas
keeping our attention
on the nearby
and the immediate

Wonderful photos, Roy! Shades of Ansel Adams.

thanks, Doreen! Though I've always thought of myself as more of an Elliot Porter kind of guy. Never did much in black & white, takes a different kind of eye. And those overwhelmingly majestic landscapes are in short supply here in my corner of New England.... maybe up in the Whites....

wonderful day to werifesteria

I had to look it up - but yes, it was - and usually is!

as a fellow Wordie, you might enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/@WordsUnravelled/videos

sasha wrote: ↑

January 6th, 2025, 9:33 am

thanks, Doreen! Though I've always thought of myself as more of an Elliot Porter kind of guy. Never did much in black & white, takes a different kind of eye. And those overwhelmingly majestic landscapes are in short supply here in my corner of New England.... maybe up in the Whites....

“Adams thought enough of some of his color photographs to exhibit a selection of prints from his transparencies at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1950. The fifth volume in his magisterial series on photographic techniques was to be devoted to color, but he died before getting to it.” — Smithsonian Magazine

I didn't realize - I always associate him with B&W - Yosemite Dome, and all. Porter probably painted in B&W too, but I always associate him with his quiet, intimate full-color nature shots. I like some of Harry Calahans's stuff. I've done a little, but mostly just experimental fooling around - I'm just a weekender, after all. For me, it seems to work best with architectural details, but I've never really explored it.