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Snapshots from a Happy Life

Himeji-jo Windows

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Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Any geometric shape reminded me of a picture I took a long time ago in a place far, far away. The clean geometry of the cutouts in this wall at Himeji castle caught my fancy: they look so modern but are ancient. The cut outs are arrow “slits”.

It took me a while to locate it, these pictures were taken back in 2005, but they are in many ways timeless.

 

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City View

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This is a very early morning view from a hotel window in Weifang, Shandong Province, China. I thought this picture had a monochrome feel to it and was interested to see how it would translate into black and white: of the Black and White LightRoom presets I liked this the best (it is called “Look 4”)ksm20160929-cbw-view-01

However, I think that the “Antique Light” toned preset works to give a better sense of the golden light of dawn:

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What do you think?

 

Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Looking through a window.

Africa, China, Ireland, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Candid Kids

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Here are a few candid pictures of kids from my archives for Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge. All of these pictures were taken in color. I experimented with the black and white presets in Adobe Lightroom. At first I wondered why they had so many, but each picture looked best with a different setting. This is the first time I have experimented with the black and white settings in Lightroom.

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