Posted on August 30, 2010 in Architecture, Street, Topaz
Jim Thorpe, Pa. is filled with beautiful Victorian architecture. Several years ago I photographed this exact same home and it ended up being part of a newspaper article that featured my photography. What a surprise to run into a neighbor who told me that they owned several properties, this being one of them! The house is beautifully maintained and decorated and is always eye-catching. I photographed the home again recently and processed this image with several layers of Topaz filters to achieve the effect I was after.
Posted on August 15, 2010 in Architecture, Street, Topaz
Big Creek Vineyards is a wine shop on Race Street in Jim Thorpe that seemed to be doing a brisk business when I wandered past the other day. I was lucky this day….it was after 5:00 PM when I got into town….I found a parking space right by the train station where there are parking meters….and the meters don’t need to be “fed” after 5:00. Whoo hoo! The parking meters only take quarters and most often I don’t have quarters when I want to park there. That results in either trying to find a free space way up the street or parking in the lot that charges for the day. I processed this image with the Topaz Spicify filter, then tweaked back on the saturation a bit.
Posted on July 30, 2010 in Architecture, Topaz
I was just meandering through some old images and came across this one of the Empire State Building framed by the Brooklyn Bridge. We were beneath the bridge at a flea market and as we wandered the streets we found some interesting things to photograph. I processed this image with several different layers of Topaz Adjust. Brooklyn = FUN!
Posted on March 29, 2010 in Architecture, Flowers, HDR, Topaz
I tend to photograph windows quite often. I’m intrigued by them. Windows tell a story about the people who live inside. What type of window treatments have they chosen? Are the curtains open or closed? Did they place unique items on the windowsill? What is on the outside of the window? In this case, you can see that the owner loves color! Lime green shutters and pretty red geraniums! What do the windows on your house say about you? [Mine probably say it’s time to get outside with the Windex!] 🙂
Posted on March 4, 2010 in Architecture, Fall, Street, Topaz
I tend not to crop my images very often as I prefer to compose the scene as best I can in camera. This image is an exception and I felt that cropping brought the focus to what I really liked about the scene – the flower pots on the brick steps. What I cropped out of the top of the image is the rest of the door. The door had a wreath hanging on it that caused me to struggle to determine the focus … was it the wreath or the flower pots? Once I cropped away the distraction, I was much happier with the shot. I processed this one with a little Topaz Simplify.