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 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.