That sounds almost biblical! Monday morning I set off for North Walpole, NH to meet up with Jon McAuliffe. Jon’s an artist, managing to do portraits – of the painted variety not photographic variety – for a living. Jon also happened to be selling a Mac G5 that I was needing – one of those must have been fate connections that you can make on Craigs List where he had advertised the machine. (more…)
I am currently working on a personal project – photos of an old jail in Maine I have been fortunate enough to gain access to – and am combining the photos themselves with a technique call high dynamic range imaging ( HDR) which is a way to deal with large differences in the shadow and highlight areas. (more…)
Fedex brought me the nicest present today – my old harddrive and a spare I had sent in. On the spare was the recovery of my old. corrupted drive. Seems like everything but my applications was recovered – it will be a bit of time before I really know, but the best part was the folder of images from the jazz and tap odyssey were there! I honestly thought they were gone forever. (more…)
Today was the bridal show in Portsmouth, NH sponsored by The Bay, 98.7 FM (http://www.987thebay.com) – and it was a testament to the hardy nature of Maine and New Hampshire brides ( and a few grooms too) – an overnight storm dumped a fresh half foot of snow on top of the ice-covered streets and walks. (more…)
After dealing with a computer owner’s worst nightmare – a major league harddrive crash and corruption – I’m back to posting and writing.
Finding photographs from the various backups I have in place has been a bit like playing hide and seek – guess who was it! (more…)