Archive for the ‘Photos for Photos' Sake’ Category

A reminder to myself on the needs of my children.

I remember the 1930’s - life was simple and straightforward for Kellie and me. We were thankful to have an abundant supply of logs for our needs, and didn’t worry about noise and grain in our photos the way most photographers do now.
These days, I get a cluster migraine trying to come up with a [...]

Bugs in heat is one of the major attractions at Bukit Kiara, and definitely makes morning walks there something to look forward to.

Who has the Delicado/Amour, Amor, Amore by Percy Faith album?
Neither Google’s Picasa nor Irfanview was suitable for editing this photo, as they lack the curve tool. So I had to use Nikon Capture [...]

This was a RAW file shot with my Nikon D70 plus a Nikkor 28-200mm G lens with a Hoya +4 closeup filter slapped to the front of the lens.
Postprocessing was done entirely in Google’s Picasa software. I’m quite sure the Picasa program doesn’t deal directly with the RAW data itself, but rather with the embedded [...]

It looks like the 598px x 900px image dimensions of my pitcher plant photo is a bit too wide for this blog’s template, so I’ve shrunk the picture in my second “photo post” to 500px x 752px.
This photo was taken with the Nikon D70 on a tripod. It was shot RAW, and the NEF file [...]

Yes, there’s a pitcher plant in my garden - I find them a fascinating species.
This image was rotated, resized and one-step sharpened in Irfanview - my tool of choice for quick image editing and if no curves or levels are required.
And this is also the first “photo post” on this blog - I’m just interested [...]