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A Menu Board and an Outdoor Heater

Easter Sunday Toodle 2012

8Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary There were a few glitches today. I forgot to start the GPS unit until I was about a mile or so away from the start. And then later when returning I think my cyclometer decided to go into sleep mode while I was photographing a couple of walls of murals. Oh, well! C’est la [...]

The Pedal Tavern

Experimental Images : Pedal Tavern

8Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary First of all you must remember this is an image of a bicycle taken in Milwaukee, WI. Normally good Christians would “never smoke or drink or go out with girls that do”. But like New Orleans (where debauchery is allowed even among the faithful) and South Carolina (where smoking is a rite of passage [...]

Mark Ariens with a customer.

Experimental Images : Mark Sells A Bicycle

8Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary It is bicycle riding season again here in the Midwest. Mark is a salesperson at an annual bicycle sales festival in the Milwaukee, WI area. He is talking with a gentleman who is looking to buy a bike while his wife and a friend look on. My wife Connie took the shot using the [...]

Mark Ariens talks with RANS Force 5 customer

Wheel and Sprocket Bike Expo 2012

7Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Wheel and Sprocket held its annual Bike Expo this week. We decided to attend the Saturday session. The crowd was in a real buying mood. Nearly half the bikes that had been on the floor of the fairgrounds exposition center had already been sold by the time we had arrived some three days into [...]

Nikon-1-V1 with SB-N5 Speedlight

Understanding the Roles Played by Adobe Lightroom™ and Adobe Photoshop™

4Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Nikon1-Post-Processing (PDF) You might be considering the purchase of a product like Adobe Lightroom to handle your RAW file processing with your Nikon 1. But you also know that there is a companion product called Adobe Photoshop that seems to be favored by lots of creative people. Do you need both? To answer that [...]

Easter Ride 2004 - After

Experimental Photos : Easter Ride 2004 – Sleight of Hand

4Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary The bicycle club Folks On Spokes puts on a nice ride each Spring here in Illinois called the Easter Ride. Their website reads: Pick one of five routes through pastoral farmlands, wildflower filled woods, and friendly towns. Route choices are: an 17 mile short route plus 28, 33, 50 and 62-mile longer routes (Actual [...]

The Way

Experimental Images : The Way

2Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary St. Mary of the Lake is a Catholic seminary in Mundelein, IL. As one could guess (from its name) it is an estate that surrounds a lake. A Short History of the University of St. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary The University of St. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary is [...]

Light and Shadow Details

Remakes : St. Mary’s of the Lake

1Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary Am using Adobe Lightroom 4 on a fairly regular basis to process digital images made with the Nikon 1 V1. These are four of the nearly 65 images made last winter in Mundelein. Am also trying out for the first time a graphic watermark made in Adobe Illustrator.

Lincoln Park - REI

Brisk Herrick Lake Ride

1Apr12 • • Comments Off

Summary We drove into the city to Lincoln Park where we spent our REI seasonal rebate on new helmets and shoes for the coming riding season. This particular store of all the ones we checked had what we were looking for. Oddly enough the others were very sadly stocked. Perhaps this will change as the [...]

Heigh Ho Silver, Away!

Experimental Images : Alcala Rider, Flower and Pullman Village

31Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary An image made from three separate exposures. The primary image is from the Pullman Village series made earlier this year. This is the wall of the building that commanded the main square in Pullman. It is now boarded up and partially renovated. The left image of the Alcala Rider is from a series made [...]

American Made Easy Racers Tour Easy

April Fool’s Eve Ride

31Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary   The weather called for cool temperatures and a slightly overcast day. We got both. But frankly riding in this sort of weather without a front fairing is going to produce enough “wind” that you feel cold. And that is exactly what happened. By the time we reached the Native Foods Cafe I could [...]

Church Steeples

Church Steeples – Processed in Aperture 3.2.3

31Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary A series of church steeples that have already been posted but are now newly post processed in the most recent version of Apple’s Aperture 3.2.3. The idea behind posting them is to offer comparison with the versions rendered in Adobe Lightroom 4. These churches are from several locations including Wheaton, IL and Chicago, IL. [...]

A View to a Colorful World

Experimental Images : A View To A Colorful World

29Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary This image is a layering of two distinct ones taken with a Nikon Coolpix camera (probably either a Nikon Coolpix S8100 or its cousin the Nikon Coolpix S9100). These are higher end compact digital cameras but not the ones which are as large as the Nikon Coolpix P510 series or others of that ilk. [...]

Nikon-1-V1 with SB-N5 Speedlight

Tools for Giants… Or How I Learned to Love My Camera and to Cease the Whining…

29Mar12 • • Comments Off

Hi Beezedog, You are correct, however, Cristopher Strachey is quoted by Bill McKeeman as having said “The fact that it is possible to push a pea up a mountain with the tip of your nose doesn’t prove its a good way to do it”. (I hope I remembered it correctly) Strachey also created a macro [...]

A Window to the World

Experimental Images : A Window to the World

28Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary WTTW Channel 11 is the local Public Television Station here in Chicago, IL. Their byline is “A Window to the World”. It is a play on their call letters. Not far from where Channel 11 does its broadcasts is the local Garmin Store. What you might not expect is that there is a confluence [...]

A. Finkl and Sons Co.

Experimental Images : A Finkl & Sons

27Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary Their website reads: Welcome to A. Finkl & Sons A. Finkl & Sons is the world’s leading supplier of forging die steels, plastic mold steels, die casting tool steels and custom open-die forgings, processing over 100,000 tons of steel each year. Finkl open die forgings are produced at our fully integrated production facility in [...]

A Glimpse of Marilyn

Experimental Images : A Glimpse of Marilyn

26Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary A passerby glances at the revealing statue of Marilyn Monroe as he strides across the Pioneer Plaza Courtyard. The image was made with the Nikon 1 V1 and post processed in Lightroom 4 and then manipulated in Photoshop 5.1. The background layer of the image was duplicated and placed on top. Next the background [...]

Nesting Blue Herons

Centennial Trail Ride

25Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary The Centennial Trail begins at the Isle Au Cache Museum on Romeo Road in Romeoville, IL. Heading a bit east of the museum you cross the street and begin your journey. The trail itself runs about 12.5 miles all the way to Willow Springs Road. There you can jump off and visit the Speedway [...]

A Beautiful Spring Sunset

Spring Is Taking A Hiatus

24Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary The temperatures in the 80s are going to be in hiding over the weekend. And as if on cue Mother Nature has sent us a very beautiful reminder in the form of a nearly perfect sunset this evening. Tomorrow (and for the next few days at least) temperatures will be more in keeping with [...]

Parked on Jackson Blvd. waiting for Connie.

Scenes from Today

21Mar12 • • Comments Off

Summary Summer has reached us already. Last year at this time the Spring weather never materialized. We were either snowed in or frozen for most of this month. Then suddenly summer hit with hot weather and no real chance to have gotten out to ride beforehand. Now we have the third day of record temperatures [...]

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