Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: arcadia

I've been playing with DxO's OpticsPro photo processing software all afternoon. Thought I'd share a few examples. One of the features DxO is advertising for the 10th version of OpticsPro is a technology they call ClearView , a haze removal tool. This is a test: Compare a version I posted of this photo a few years back , processed using Photoshop Elements. The new version's better.

Just for comparison , here's another (greener) shot I took yesterday from the Arcadia turnout on M22.

Autumn's coming. From the scenic turnout on M-22 above Arcadia, Michigan. Compare .

The Museum on the left; Kalamazoo Valley Community College on the right. For most of my life, and for decades before I was born, the Arcadia Creek ran underneath the buildings and parking lots in downtown Kalamazoo. If you knew where to look there were places you could see the water, but I imagine folks lived their whole lives in Kalamazoo without realizing the town had a downtown creek. In the early 1990s the city daylighted the creek, with this result. Much better, though it's still in a straitjacket. A couple blocks east--past the arches--it breaks free of the channel into a park that serves as a festival site. A great improvement.

Looking west toward St. Augustine's parish from the Cancer Center. For most of my life, and for decades before I was born, the Arcadia Creek ran underneath the buildings and parking lots in downtown Kalamazoo. If you knew where to look there were places you could see the water, but I imagine folks lived their whole lives in Kalamazoo without realizing the town had a downtown creek. In the early 1990s the city daylighted the creek, with this result. Much better, though it's still in a straitjacket. A couple blocks east it breaks free of the channel into a park that serves as a festival site. A great improvement