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Chickadee Stands Guard

Via: community • Photography & Art • 16 Comments • 8 years ago

When I took this shot, I thought, "This little bird looks as if he's a kind of lookout, or guard of the feeder on which he's perched. © A. Mac/A.G. ©...

Snow Bird, Snow … Don't Disappoint

Via: community • Photography & Art • 11 Comments • 8 years ago

What's snow without a Snow Bird (Junco) … and visa versa? © A. Mac/A.G. White-throated Sparrow © A/ Mac/A.G.

In Advance of a Coming, New Feature … "PHOTOSHOP MANIA"

Via: community • Photography & Art • 19 Comments • 8 years ago

Before PHOTOSHOP MANIA AFTER PHOTOSHOP MANIA © A. Mac/A.G. Coming in January, 2017 ~ PHOTOSHOP-MANIA IN THE CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ~ A New Feature on The...

No, A Fence, Well, Yes … A Fence … Really! CREATIVE ARTS Thursday/Friday

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What does the headline mean? You can find out by going to the link. Click the Link, Bring a Friend, Share Something Creative

Functional Art

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A BILLBOARD PROTOTYPE … IS IT SOMEWHERE DOWN (and ALONGSIDE) the ROAD?

Faces in a Crowd … Hamburg, Germany, 1903

Via: community • Photography & Art • 11 Comments • 8 years ago

For Dowser, this may be my most "meaningful" restoration yet; for everyone else, enjoy what I believe to be a singular moment in time and a photograph that may be the only one of its kind in...

Hamburg (Well-done Hopefully) and Most Certainly "Rare"

Via: community • Photography & Art • 24 Comments • 8 years ago

I hope this restoration is deemed to be well-done … for sure, being one-of-a-kind … it's rare … © A. Mac/A.G Best Look at this Link For Sure, THIS is...

For Dowser & Family … a Restoration (and Anyone Else Who Cares to View it)

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Old Black and White Photos Restored … when Turned to Sepia Tone … Look Both Old and New

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There's an aesthetic risk in an old, restored black and white photo ; that is, if the photo has no subject matter that says "old," it can lose some of whatever charm comes with looking and...

CREATIVE ARTS Thursday/Friday, December 1/2, 2016

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It's in the fine print. Check Out the Feature at this Link

Back to Doing Posters

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Coming Soon ~ A NEW FEATURE ~ PHOTOSHOP-MANIA

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~ PHOTOSHOP-MANIA IN THE CREATIVE ARTS GROUP ~ A New Feature on The NEWSTALKERS Here's How it will Work • Go to the CREATIVE ARTS GROUP • JOIN the GROUP … it's open to all •...

Mad as a Wet, Uhhhm … WREN!

Via: community • Photography & Art • 7 Comments • 8 years ago

It rained all day today … Some of my neighbors got soaked. Wet Wren © A. Mac/A.G.

Not Quite There … but Closing In

Via: community • Photography & Art • 12 Comments • 8 years ago

Trying to find the right focus adjustments, metering, lens choices, aperture/shutter speed/ISO combinations that more-or-less consistently give me images that satisfy me. This photo is nice, but...

ISO 3200 and Low Light

Via: community • Photography & Art • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

What is ISO? • In very basic terms, ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera to available light . • The l ower the ISO number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while a higher ISO...

Old Lens with New Camera Gets Me Close to what I Want

Via: community • Photography & Art • 17 Comments • 8 years ago

For now, I will let the photo speak for itself … it's not perfect, but, I can see my way to near-perfection if not a perfect such image. Mourning Dove Just Landing © A....

It has Been a Photographer's Dream of an Autumn in the East

Via: community • Photography & Art • 7 Comments • 8 years ago

I still have some fall photos to process, share and publish; an early snowfall distracted me in a most photographically fortuitous manner last Sunday, but now, I'm back to wrapping up my autumn,...

New Camera Kicks Ass!

Via: community • Photography & Art • 14 Comments • 8 years ago

I'm still testing my new camera's capability to get reasonable pictures in crappy light at high ISO numbers. Here's one of today's pix … © A. Mac/A.G. Best Look at this...

Happy Holidays (Let's Put "Holidays" back in "Happy Holidays")

Via: community • Photography & Art • 2 Comments • 8 years ago

Because a Beacon of Great Wisdom Once said … "Love Ye One Another" … meaning, of course, "Don't allow your insecure feelings about reality make you an ethnocentric schmuck." Image...

It's that Time Again, and this Time, it falls on Thanksgiving in America

Via: community • Photography & Art • 1 Comments • 8 years ago

It's better than the average …

For Many, A Homecoming Day

Via: community • Photography & Art • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

Thanksgiving, a distinctly American holiday, is for many, a time to come home, or, at least, to be with the people who, in our lives, represent "home". With that in mind, I borrowed some lyrics...

Too Old to Deny Myself "On Principle" … or, Because I don't Really Need that which I Want!

Via: community • Photography & Art • 16 Comments • 8 years ago

Back when I was a kid, my mother would often ask the question, "What do you need it for?" "IT" being something I wanted but, in fairness, something, in the most pragmatic terms, I did not need...

You Really Have to Want It!

Via: community • Photography & Art • 32 Comments • 8 years ago

Cold, still snowing a bit, not the easiest of days to trudge through the woods … if you want to get some good snow scene photos, you've got to get out there when the snow is (often) still...

Part II ~ Overnight Change in the Weather ~ After the iPhone Shot

Via: community • Photography & Art • 15 Comments • 8 years ago

Scenes and photo opportunities like this deserve better than just an iPhone rendition. This and others to follow taken with a Nikon D610. Un-named Mountain Stream, Pocono Mountains,...

Overnight Change in the Weather

Via: community • Photography & Art • 15 Comments • 8 years ago

Yesterday afternoon, I was fishing under a sunny sky and wearing a t-shirt (pants too); this morning (here in the Pocono Mountains), I looked out my bedroom window and saw this …...