Beautiful!! Which really demonstrates that rain can be an asset, and overcast a blessing for a photographer willing to risk getting wet.

I live in Olympia, but let's not let everyone know how beautiful the Northwest can be in the winter! :) :) (Just kidding....come and share paradise.)

The Old Man

Spectacular!! I enjoyed that area years ago, and your photographs bring it back to life in my memory. Beautiful work!

The Old Man

Interesting images! And an interesting vantage point.

Dave

Bud

Ha Ha....I will remember that one!!

Dave

Beautiful examples that demonstrate we don't have to go to Europe to find beauty and interest. I think those of us who enjoy photography are especially blessed in these times.

Thank for sharing!!!

Have I noticed a bias on the forum in favor of reason, knowledge, evidence, and intelligence? Maybe it hints that photographers are good breeding stock. :)

Right, and our cameras are taking secret pictures of us and transmitting them to planet Xtourg. And Covid is neither virus nor bacteria, it is a fungus.

Now that is OPERA as I love it!!! Terrific, uplifting, and an inspiration. Thanks greatly.

Dave

Steve,

Absolutely wonderful! I bicycled Ireland in 1977 myself. Your images of the people are great. I have a passion for the music now, and returned three more trips, (the last in 1993) but none were as wonderful as the first in '77. I don't think I would go again. Too much has changed, I believe. Still beautiful of course.

I suspect we could get rid of some of the dye color shift, but in some ways it is like the patina on vintage brass, a symbol of age and worth.

Dave

John,

I did not attempt to time batch processing, but if the software applies the process image by image, I would expect a similar improvement in performance.

Incidentally, I was measuring the "stabilize" function with sliders set high. I do a lot of waterfowl shots at long telephoto, handheld, and shutter speeds under 1/500, so you can imagine something that works is great, and the new version works.

Dave

Just a note that the new Topaz AI Sharpen 2.02 update is several times faster than the old. I measured a 6X improvement!! It now takes seconds instead of minutes.

I bought the old, but tired often of the wait. Now I get a preview in seconds and the final product several times faster. My computer is Windows 10 with only 8 GB memory, and a I7-7700HQ CPU.

Dave

Great old photos. I am a little surprised that you got that much color shift. I am a young fellow compared to you (only 80) but my slides from the 60's have survived well.

No matter, still great photos. Makes me want to pull some of mine. I have a movie of the folks building the fire for the fire fall I need to copy.

Dave

Great images!!

They brought back a rush of memories from a young man's (me!) 1977 bicycle trip in the British Isles. I recall the Grand in those days had a traditional English dance band, and stereotypical English resort comedian on stage. The couples dancing were all what I considered "old timers" (much younger than I am today!!).

Of course my amateur images are scanned from slides and never compared to your excellent work!.

David

Bobbyjohn,

Norman Rockwell's work has animated my life long search for remnants of the life he depicted. I have stories and photographs of hundreds of would-be Norman Rockwell communities, and a few of some that wanted to recreate that era.

Post dumped him because he was not with it, in their mind. They assigned him to do heads of famous people and he eventually left. Too bad, because his images expressed what we wished we were, something we might aspire to be, something we imagined existed just over in the next town. I believe it was a powerful force in shaping our vision of ourselves, even if his paintings were not of typical scenes.

In a few places in America, Rockwell's images were close to real.

Search the Archive.Org site for Ivan Besse movies he took in the 1930's in Britton, SD. His 16mm images should inspire anyone who would like to imagine a different time in small town America. Perhaps Besse was inspired by Rockwell.

I see what many others don't see, the light sparkling on a curve in the stream, a bird silhouetted against the sky, grass waving near the shore, a child hugging his grandmother.....I see because I photograph. Photography makes me see.

I noticed this when I was in my late teens. I am now 80. What I have seen in 60 plus years of photography is pure joy, a celebration of living. I have tens of thousands of photographs, a few good, fewer published. But I have seen, because I have photographed.

It isn't a mystery. The photographer sees. An old car in a field, a weathered fence post, a youngster kicking a soccer ball, newlyweds looking at one another....the images rush back even as I write. Oh my God the joy of having seen!!! Thanks to photography.

I have photographed, I have seen. I photograph to see.

The Old Man