Homes with windows like this used to be ubiquitous in southern Poland.
Window
photography
Lipnica, Summer 2022
Spring at School
Experiments
The Boy and I were experimenting with the new phones.
Mine was somewhat less flattering.
Conestee
Village Reality
Before and After
Lightroom’s “Content-Aware Fill” function is improving…
Before
After
View from Babia
Almost Full
Twenty Years Ago
My Favorite Part
of the Biltmore house must undoubtedly be the main staircase from outside.
View from Sunday
ulica Floriańska Edits
Babcia Re-edits
I’ve been re-editing some pictures from Poland here and there, and I decided to throw together a little compositive of our favorite picture of Babcia, adding some falling leaves and sun rays.
And because Babcia always talks longingly of living 100-200 years ago instead of today with all these crazy computers, I decided to turn it into an old picture as well.
Auschwitz Edits
I edited a few pictures I took in Poland which required more attention than I could give them on a small-screen laptop with only a trackpad. Today I focused on the few pictures I took at Auschwitz.
Sunset While Walking the Dog
First, this, of course — two weeks to go. We’re all getting excited.
Then this — a simple image from this evening’s walk with the dog.
Topaz Lab DeNoise AI
I bought Topaz Lab’s noise reduction plugin for Lightroom today. I’m fairly impressed.
It cleaned up a low-light phone picture nicely:
It removed the noise from a 2005 picture at Auschwitz:
It gave a dreamy look to a photo from inside my favorite bar in Lipnica:
Looking forward to fearlessly shooting at higher ISOs.
Fields, 20 Years Ago
Easter Afternoon, 2003
Everything’s Gray
One of Chris Niedenthal’s images of Poland in the 1980s — he called it “Everything’s Gray.” I wish I’d taken more photos of the parts of Poland I knew that looked like this because they’re gone. That’s probably a good thing, but I wish I’d photographed those places myself.
There was a bar in my village that I almost never entered. It was the GS-owski bar and even in the mid-90s, it looked like one would always imagine a bar to look in a communist country.