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What the hell is wrong with you tonight?

I have a new favorite preset and it’s called Gimme all you got but not love. (Not only was I listening to Joe Jackson, but this preset pretty much sucks every drop of pixel out of your photo. Or my photo, as it were.) And because you’re reading my blog, I would like to offer [...]

Photowalk, again.

Like I said, while I hated these photos at first, a little PP goes a long way. Here are another set of twelve shots.

Pas si simple.
I like that I shot this all crooked. To be honest, I did try to fix it in Photoshop, but it looked silly. So tilted it will be.

And I feel [...]

More from the Photowalk.

Yeah, I shot a lot. I thought they mostly sucked, but post-processing can do wonderful things.
A continuation of this post.

Stuck in the middle with you.
Those guys, they were not part of the photowalk. Not on purpose at least.

Glasses. (UTW Fixing a Hole)

Pyramid 2.0 (UTW Siamese Dream)
It’s actually Pyramid 2.0 and Language of the Birds 2.0, [...]

Caliber Photowalk 30.01.10

These are some shots from the January 30th Caliber Photowalk in North Beach and Chinatown.
I took more pictures than I expected, fewer than I ought to’ve, and they’re all pretty much crappier than I’d like. But they’ll do. Here are the first of many. If I used presets to process, they’re in the parentheses. And, [...]

“Son of man, / You cannot say, or guess”

20-1; 14.01.10, 16:21 – alternate
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.”
19-24, I. The [...]