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Fun Photo Friday


As you can tell, last weekend was a busy one for El Pasoans.  Things were getting blown up, knocked over, and demolished left and right.  It was almost as much mayhem as living in a Die Hard movie or watching Tea Partiers backstroke on presidential birth eligibility requirements since Canadian-born Ted Cruz became their flavor of the week (gee . . . it really was about race after all, it turns out).

Anyway, because City Hall was also on this past weekend’s demolition list, Ursula and I went down town to photograph it as well.  While we were there, I took the opportunity to snap a few other fun photographs, which you can see below (the graffitied railroad cars were snapped near the ASARCO stacks):

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Fun Photo Friday


Here are nine of my favorite shots from Monument Valley taken back in October, 2006:

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And here’s an example of filtering for color in Black & White conversions.  For this demonstration I took this shot:

Monument Valley105

And then two conversions to Black & White (one filtered for green; the other for red).  Note that green filtering (left photo) lightens the sky and darkens the red earth and brown tree, while red filtering (right side) has the opposite effect of darkening the blue sky and lightening the red dirt and brown limbs:

Green Filtered Red Filtered

A trick to help analyze the visual differences in the two:  If you hold your CTL key and click on the left image, then do the same with the right, you’ll open up two additional browser tabs.  By clicking back and forth between the two tabs, you’ll alternate between enlarged versions of both pictures.

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