Running... Again?

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  If you know me you know there was a time about 10 years ago or so where I was running. A lot. At least 5 days a week and at least 5 miles a run. I wasn’t training, I wasn’t preparing for a race or a marathon. I just found myself enjoying the time spent running. I wasn’t obsessed with numbers, but I kept track of them all and liked seeing improvements in time and distances. It was good physical health and mental health. Then I tweaked my knee. Not bad enough that I couldn’t walk on it, just a tweak that told me I needed to back off of running for a little bit. So I decided on 2 weeks. At the end of 2 weeks I aborted a run very early as the pain was still there. 2 weeks became 3, became a month, became 5 years. 
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Weekly Photo Projects, Week 23


Week 23: Broken
Pigeon Point Lighthouse
For +Project 52 B&W our theme was broken. There were so many things to choose from, but I went with the broken Pigeon Point Lighthouse, with a broken window on the side building. I really liked how this photo came out, but really had to fight that searing white lighthouse to tone it down a little bit.

Week 23: Straight Out of Camera
Infrared, SOoC
For +Weekly Photo Project 2013 our theme was Straight Out of Camera (SOoC) meaning that the bare minimum of adjustments are done. Better would be to have no adjustments done what so ever after you press the shutter button. Normally this is where you try to show your camera skills, but I took a different route and thought I'd show what I see SOoC when I shoot infrared. I used a custom white balance I have stored on my G3 which ends up giving me the aqua colored foliage I like in my infrared shots, but until I make a white balance adjustment in Aperture I get a very yellow looking photo.

Touched Up
(Infra)Red School House
This is the same photo after having played around with white balance and using Topaz Labs new Clarity tool for contrast. I consider this a work in progress and not a finished photo, but I'm liking where it's going so far.



You can view my Weekly Photo Project album here.
My black & white project album here.

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