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I wish I could remember all the manipulations I did to this picture, which was originally a color digital picture taken on a snowy day. It was done as an editorial illustration and I've always liked it.

Sanibel Island, Florida, is famous for its sunsets, shelling, and birds -- there's a big bird sanctuary there. I got two of the three in this picture. I figgled a little with the color; an unmodified version appears elsewhere.

Bored while riding with a friend on Route 6 in Putnam County, New York, I put the shutter speed on bulb and photographed the cars. Taken with a Leica M-2 and 50mm Summilux.

Watching the planes come and go from the roof of the Columbus, Ohio, airport parking garage, I was taken with the sunset over the skyline. Which, through the miracle of computing, I later enhanced.

This is an editorial illustration modified from a picture I took in my little tomato garden.

Same tech specs as the previous one. Camera stores used to have atmospheres not unlike those found in pool halls. At least the items on the "used" shelf are more easily identified in this one.

This was taken using a 10mm OP fisheye Nikkor -- on a Leica M4. It was at Fox Photo in Columbia, Mo., where the Nikon salesman was visiting and demonstrating new products one weekend in 1970. I stacked on the M4 first a Leica M mount to Leica screw adapter, then a Canon SLR to Leica screw adapter, then a Nikon F to Canon SLR adapter, after which I stuck on the Nikon fisheye just to see what would happen. This is what happened. It was taken with 2475 Recording Film at some ungodly high ASA and processed in the trick 2475 developer. The experiment was technically a success but a practical failure. Not that I would have ever spent the price of a whole camera with several lenses on a fisheye, anyway, even if I'd had the money, which I didn't. Fisheyes tend to be kind of cliches. (If you look closely, you can see some interesting things on the "used" shelf, including two Olympus Pen F bodies, some Pen F lenses, and a 16mm Bolex movie camera.) At right there are signs for "Circus Showtime," which was a promotion of Kodak Carousel slide projectors. It is sad to think how many people now have never seen or used a slide projector or a projection screen. They should have to suffer as we did!

First there was a nice little infrared picture of a tree with the stately old Athens Lunatic Asylum behind it. Then I desaturated it, fiddled a little with the brightness -- making it much brighter, actually, alternating with about a dozen hits from the GIMP cartoon filter. This is the result, which I think is kinda cool.

Same leaf as next picture. All depends on mood!