Red onions at the market

I went with Angela to the Palagonia market this morning. I took my camera with me because none of the photographs I had been looking over looked like something I wanted to post here. One of the first booths had these onions. I was struck by the bold, purple color.

Not much processing was done on these--I wanted to keep the mentioned color that I had mostly already captured. The only things I did were crop, after which I slightly tweaked the contrast and white balance.

beach and boat version 2 and a post for this week

So, I have reprocessed last weeks photo. This time I used UFRaw and GIMP. I'm much happier with it:

Here is my photo for this week:

Some unfortunate flower is being made into a delicious lunch for a snail... and an opportunity for me to practice manual focus on a close subject...

A Beached Boat; New Posts and Photos are coming

Dear long suffering followers (all four of you... maybe more if I ever start posting regularly...),

As indicated by the title of this post, I assure you, more post will be forthcoming shortly...

Thank you, Ryan, for your suggestions regarding timely posts, I'll be implementing them. I already have a stockpile of a few photographs...

Now, the entry for right now:


Ang and I were on vacation over the last week and the first town we stopped in was Marinella di Selinute. We saw the boat on the sand; this is one of about five photos I took... still not quite happy with the processing that I've done on it... working that learning curve...

Pumpkin Pop Art

Here is a Che Guevara version of a picture I took of my cat a while back.

You can almost hear him say: "Mao!"

To make this picture, I adapted instructions found in a You Tube instructional video on using Gimp to turn a photograph into pop art. The main change I had to make from the video's instructions was to remove all the background as my cat has light collored fur; his fur didn't work out so well even with a fairly light background... So after removing the background elements, adjusting the color balance and contrast, and removing more background elements, I pretty much followed the video instructions.

Black and White Keys

This months photo club challenge is black and white. My picture is above. Basically, it's exactly how it looks: I took a long exposure of my keyboard while playing said keyboard. Enjoy!

Photo Club Presentation on Publishing

This one is for the photo club. No, it is not a photo... it is a slide presentation that I'm going to present to the photo club. I made it using Google docs. Maybe I'll eventually do a voice over on it. For now, hopefully the brief blurbs and links will be useful. My notes are not ready to publish yet...

Town through plants...

This picture was taken above Ramacca. I took it by pointing my camera out the passenger window and focusing on the plants in front of the lens.