Don't subscribe. At least not yet. I hope to use PS6 on a newer computer I still haven't migrated to. There is a lifetime of learning features and techniques possible on any version of Photoshop, new or old. Sometimes frequent upgrades can be a problem when they become incompatible with favorite plug-ins or certain OS levels. In short, except for fixing security issues, I don't demand that a software product provide frequent updates if it is already extremely capable. I also don't relish the idea of "checking in" at prescribed time intervals. I prefer standalone use and only upgrading to a desired update when I chose to do so. I don't think much major software will be available in future that will conform to my desires in that regard however.

Cats are heat-seeking critters! We used to have a cat, around 20 years old, that in Winter would come to the head of the three steps that led down to the room where I was on the computer, look at me and "MEOW!" insistently. That was my cue to turn up the thermostat! After I did that she would return to her warm blanket for a longer nap.

Keep up the good work! You got great results and I like them all!

I also like to shoot infrared to convert to B&W. I had done a few using an IR filter with the camera on a tripod, but it is a lot handier to use a camera that is already converted to infrared.

Do you know which wavelength your Panasonic camera was converted to? If you don't have to make any more color adjustments to the original to get fully B&W results it is probably 830 nanometer or some other wavelength between that and 900 nm. If you have to convert it in Photoshop or whatever in order to remove a slight color cast to get it to be totally B&W it might be 720 nm. ... or?

Yes, SnapSeed is a great iPhone editing app. I can also recommend Touch/ReTouch for removing wires, etc., extremely well, and ExifWizPro for more thoroughly reading Exif data.

While I use those and agree about how amazingly good they can be, the editing apps on a computer are often more precise when needed, e.g., color control, or when requiring exact framing or other size for printing (unless you don't care how much the phone app decides to move or cut things off the edges). Moving something via fingers is okay, but hard to control for small amounts. To get really particular about the results or to use options that phones don't have, more exacting work can be done using layers, more sophisticated tools, font treatments, plugins, whatever ... that can be found in computer graphics programs (pick your favorite program! I'll leave that topic alone for now!). Also -- it is often easy to see a "mistake" or something that just doesn't look right on a large screen but was totally overlooked on a phone.

It's a good idea to use both -- why not! Your mini graphics/camera setup can fit in your pocket on the go and your computer stuff is great to sit down to for longer sessions. Find out what each can do and even finish a job on one that was started in the other if needed. It's all good stuff that's enjoyable to use and is also open to any measure of creativity you can come up with.

I also like dandelions. Some of our most interesting plants are considered "weeds," but I have to admire how they seem to thrive when weather conditions for the stuff we grow on purpose can't survive. Some years ago I and several others were privileged to be in a conversation with a fellow who had studied dandelions. What he had to say was very interesting and it was a long ways from being a short conversation!

Chihuly?

Oh, fer goodness sake. Yep! ... very definite one on the near tree! Some others quite find-able farther back as well.

Thanks for the green man folklore info, too!

Just to add a factor for investigating your mystery: Resolution isn't the only thing to consider. The more pixels in a given area should make for better results in the gradation of colors and dark/light tones. More pixels to show more of the intermediary values for those in other words. I'd like to know whether that is comparable in digital photography in the same way that output from 35mm compares with the "richer" results from using large format film, for example.

I just got through deleting 700 e-Mails from the In Box by searching and selecting all those with "black friday" in the subject. Trouble with malls is that, except for a couple of stores, what I want isn't carried locally anyway. ... and I'm one of the few that actually prefers to buy in person instead of on line. (although I do plenty of that as well -- have to)

When I took this October 2nd photo the trees were beginning to change color. One photo wasn't good for much else and it had been a long while since I'd used the "Small World" technique so . . . hmmmm, why not: "leaves turning" . . .

Instructions for the "small world" technique are found in several places on line and for several different graphics programs, not just PhotoShop. It's more commonly used to convert a scene to give the appearance of a small planet having a cityscape or whatever.

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Oh, my goodness, YES, it will make a big difference! Of course I don't know whether yours have become as bad as mine were, but it certainly helped me to see in using a camera and many other things. So is every photo of mine now perfectly wonderful for a 16x20 right out of the camera? Nope. I must need other improvements as well . . .

I've been near-sighted my entire life so I opted to keep that kind of correction and continue wearing glasses. I'm glad I did because even without glasses I can see to read menus, look at someone's cell-phone photos, etc., w/o reaching in a pocket for "readers." That works for me, but there are several other good options these days and I've met others who were happy picking a different option than I did.

I like some weeds for being hardy and having nice flowers. This is a weed I don't particularly like, but a while back I noticed that it might actually have some flowers and not just bunches of "pods" so I left it alone to wait and see. Bad weed, nice flowers. The flowers are enclosed in clusters of leafy pods on the end of a stem (for lack of a better description) and open up each morning only to be closed afternoons. The flowers are approximately 10 to 12 millimeters in size with some smaller ones being around 8 mm.

Note: Both photos were cropped before posting, the first one cropped more than the 2nd.

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We had some good rains here this afternoon -- had to get the camera out to see what it could do.

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Ha! Oh, photogenic stuff is there all right -- just hides really well. ... and one does have to get off I80 in the western part of the state to find some historic scenery. Of course here I am after moving out of Nebraska to Colorado (loved it) and later (now) in Utah.

Fantastic! Nice B&W with a lot of things done right! There is just something special about the results from film, especially the range of tonality that large format gives.

I like several so I'm not going to do a "which one's best" rating thing, but will comment on the wagon. I've used farm wagons and hay racks when I was younger on the farm ... even rode a hay rack drawn by a team of horses a couple of miles back home after a threshing get together at a neighbor's place. (my goodness that was slow traveling compared to driving a tractor or car!) The most notable use of a farm wagon for several years back then was to sow oats in the month of March, with one person riding in the wagon and scooping oats into the hopper of the spreader mechanism. The wheels might be larger than on the wagons I'd used but they are the same type of construction,and this looks more like a rig to haul a bunch of tourists on a sight-seeing jaunt.

Your photo probably was not taken in the plains states, but the expanse of sky with clouds and placement of buildings behind the wagon in the snow sure does convey the feeling of a Nebraska Winter's day on a farm. For my eyes the composition with expanses of space was perfectly done for the same reasons and I like the crisp contrast of the snow on the wagon that adds to the attention being drawn to it.

Edit: I did wonder what film you'd used and what was used for digital scan of the negatives.

... ok, I've blathered on enough. Long story short, "good work!"