Posts Tagged ‘Michigan’

I spy the Moon……..oh wait is that dust on the lens?

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

No, that’s Jupiter.  It wasn’t until I was in looking at my photos on the screen that I realized there was a star up there too.  So after some digging I found out it was Jupiter.

From Abrahm’s Planetarium Night Sky Notes:

Sunday, January 17, 2010
The thin crescent Moon is to the lower right of Jupiter. Look for the pair in the WSW at dusk. Jupiter is shining bright at -2nd magnitude. Neptune, at 8th magnitude, is to the lower left of the Moon, but requires a telescope to be seen.


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What a difference winter makes…

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

I took this photo back on October 20th of Vandercook Hall on Western Michigan University’s campus.  The array of colors is just awesome as well is the architecture of the building.  It looks even better in print.

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So now every time I drive by Vandercook Hall, I look over to see what is currently going on there, image wise that is.  This last time I noticed that they don’t shovel the sidewalks giving it that freshly fallen snow look.  I thought with the hibernating vines and snow it would make a nice black and white photo and a contrast in seasons photo.

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Here is a color version of the winter image.  ENJOY!

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Brochure Pictures

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

One of our suppliers always puts out a yearly request for pictures of our installs they can use in their brochures.   This is one of my favorites pictures I grabbed and of course I had to play with it in Nik’s SilverEfex Pro.  Unfortunately with the small images, you cannot see the lighted Christmas tree in this image. ENJOY

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SilverEfex Pro Experiment

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Was looking thru some old pictures tonight and happened across some of my old lighthouse pictures.  I had the thought of…..”I wonder what that would looking in Black and White?”.  So off I went with several images into SilverEfex Pro 3.0.  Of all the Nix Software applications this is one of my favorites.   One of the built in presets is “Cyanotype”.  Cyanotype was a popular process in the 20th century engineering world (Blueprints).  Since this particular image was taken on a very cold February evening, I thought the blue cast gave the picture a cold feel.  ENJOY!

- ORIGINAL -

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- SILVEREFEX PRO VERSION  -

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Plainwell Volleyball – Wolverine Conference Champions

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Yes, this is old news.  Been a busy week on the home front and finally got the images processed.  Enjoy!

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