Another Look

 McDaniel Farm Park

Here is another look at that barn at McDaniel Farm Park that I showed in my previous post. This photo is from way back in 2011.

Visit to a local park

 

McDaniel Farm Park

It was a blogging challenge that got me to find some old photos in my archive. On a visit to McDaniel Farm Park way back in the Fall of 2009 I shot some photos panning across a couple of buildings. If I made them into panorama pictures they did not wind up in the archive.

Today I preprocessed the images. They seem nice enough to me.

What do you think? 

Here is the link to my challenge post: The Numbers Game - 260112 - Cafe Ludwig

Happy Holidays!

 Christmas cookies for you!

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Happy Holidays!

 All the best wishes for the holiday season!

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Happy Holidays!

 

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Can it be?

 Is it really?

Years ago, actually decades, I always looked for sparkplugs on the street. They were quite frequent in those spaces at intersections near the curb. Always intriqued me as I could not figure out how they got there.

Then they disappered, maybe cars got better.

Then this past Saturday as I was stopped at a red light a saw something gleaming on the steet. Could it be a sparkplug?

Well, it wasn't. Turns out it was a fuel cap - some cars still have those.

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Sacrilege

 When old newspapers sit around the pages generally turn yellow.

Old artworks too suffer the ravages of time. They become dark and dingy. Sometimes they turn off-color. That happens even to the best of them.

Van Gogh is one of my favorite old greats. So when I saw an image of one of his paintings, that of a restaurant, looking quite shabby, I almost despaired.

I decided to see if I could do some restoration. Mind you, just on a digital image, I have no access to the real thing. 

I spent two or three minutes on the chore and this is what I got:

Now I can hear the shouts of "uncouth sacrilige!" "How dare you touch a masterpiece!"

Well I just wanted to admire the painting and see it the way old Vincent mght have seen it.

In todays world the real painting looks like this:

Surely that can't be what Vincent painted. A lifeless, amost monochrome scene. No, I think my version is closer to the real Van Gogh.

What do you think, dear reader?

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