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<p>I am trying to spend a little more time doing stained glass, as I know that it will last longer than photos. I can't get away from photography, however: it scratches an itch, the itch to capture the beautiful, the visually arresting, the humanly engaging. So I was away this past weekend at the baptism of my oldest daughter's daughter, and captured that event, and did some black &amp; white treatments of casual images, mostly of her children, and of Josh and Meredith's two friends, Darius and Anastasia, and their daughter (whose name escapes me: Philomema?). See my next post for the highlights.</p>
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<p>A few days before that, however, I went walking in my neighborhood (my usual 40-minute walk) and saw something that I have shot before: a light cover of snow on the tops of tree branches, vines and bushes, with the temperature hovering around freezing. I knew that high-contrast black &amp; white would work, so I shot in color, and post-processed the images to get what I wanted. I even "blew out" some of my highlights -- mostly the sky.</p>
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<p>The snow is on top of the branches, but as it melts it keeps the bottom of the branches and twigs wet and dark -- as I say, ideal for high-contrast treatment. Here's a sampling.</p>
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<p>Because the ground has lots of dark, bare patches, the images are often very textural.</p>
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