Ten Photographic Art stamps created from pictures of flowers taken in March in San Diego County.
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Life from Southern California, mostly San Diego County
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Lovely!
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Reblogged this on oshriradhekrishnabole.
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Were you able to reblog this twice? I didn’t think one could do that! Thanks, though!
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So good to look at flowers while we have this cold spring.
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This “cold spring” you speak of, is it anything like a “cold margarita”?……….LOL
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I wish!!!!!
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Your photography is superb… The lighting, textures and sharpness are stellar!
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Thank you, but not all of it is photography. Some of the credit goes to Adobe for creating Photoshop………LOL
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That’s what photography is now, isn’t it? I long for the days of film where you got to get it right in the camera. 🙂
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Actually, those of us who were professionals in the days of film didn’t get it right in the camera. Instead, we used various filters on the lens and then took the film to the darkroom where we processed it using different chemicals, different papers, more filters, strong light, low light, dodged some here, burned some there, even created double and triple exposures right there in the darkroom. Even the great Ansel Adams spent many weeks “photoshopping” his pictures after getting back from the field. He even authored some books that tell us how he created several of his world-renowned images.
In today’s world, though, we don’t have to spend half of our days in a dark room smelling horrible chemicals. Instead, we sit at a computer with Photoshop or Lightroom drinking a margarita and processing our “film.”
As Edgar Degas said a century ago about his art: “Art is not what you see but what you make others see.” Replace “art” with “photography.”
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Indeed, sir, about the “old” way. I remember well my Gra-Lab with fluorescent hands, the thermometer to gauge developer temps, homemade dodging tools made with coat hangers, Polycontrast filters… lol. I remember rubber banding a piece of a girl’s pantyhose around the enlarger lens to soften it up. 🙂
And the end result? A huge plumbing bill to replace corroded pipes in my converted kitchen!
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LOL, especially about the pantyhose because, yes, I did that, too! The best practices probably were known far and wide!
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