Annie’s Cafe

Another screen shot from my ‘book-in- progress’ layout.

[compression makes this awfully blurry - click for better image]

These photos are from Annie’s Cafe, which is my favorite local [Cedar Key] breakfast and lunch place. It has no A/C but a great big screened in porch, and is owned and run by Glenda Richburg.

That’s Kathy who used to waitress there.

Sex, Lies and Photoshop

There is an interesting op-ed video on the New York Times web site about body image and the ‘retouching’ of advertising and magazine photos.

My personal opinion is that there is less and less a chance of doing anything about this as digital dominates, and ‘retouching’ no longer is even the correct term.  I guess ‘post production’ would be a better term, but I think it is really assumed nowedays that there is ‘post procuction’ and acknowleding would do nothing to change this .

Well, take a look and see what you think.

Film and digital thoughts and results…

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I continue scanning older negatives, and every now and then I am totally surprised by the results.  Although I try to follow a pretty standardized workflow when I do this, every now and then, I try something different, or I forget what I am doing, and end up with a surprising result.  This is one of them.  Working’outside’ of my, more or less, normal workflow routine feels a little bit like doing lith prints in the darkroom.  I never quite know what I am going to get, I am often rewarded with a surprisingly interesting image from a negative I previously neglected.

First trip to the beach this season…..

Sunday we headed for St. George Island State Park for our first beach outing this year.  It was a glorious day!

“Miss Jonya”