Category: Flickr posts
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Adventures in Paradise
Adventures in Paradise Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski Adventures in Paradise is something of a visual departure for me; especially for a “beach shot” during a storm. It is very high key – blown out highlights all over the place; barely a dark dark to be seen. But I processed the look in what felt like…
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Runes – aka "Fishes with Weeds"
Trail Marker – Klipsan Beach, WA 20+ Miles of sandy beach – dunes and grass as far as the eye can see. Where’s the trail you came in on? They all look the same… keep you eye out for a trail marker – and remember which one is yours…. Runes are characters used in…
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The Wreck of the Jeanie O
The Wreck of the Jeanie O Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski In the Port of Ilwaco, WA. Barbed wire waves, St. Elmo’s fire glowing electric in the rigging, the stain of neglect on her bow; run aground on reefs of time: there she sits, high and dry. My son said, half-jokingly, that he’d like to live…
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Storm Surf – Ocean Park, WA
Storm Surf – Ocean Park, WA Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski We had breakfast this morning in a little cafe in Ocean Park, down along the beach access road. Anyway, I walked out after a last cup of coffee and spotted the distant suff down the road and in a flash this shot jumped into my…
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My friend Frank
My friend Frank Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski This is my friend Frank. Before there were IBM PCs, or MACs, let alone the Internet, Frank wrote the email system for the computer I designed for Epson. We called Frank “Conan”, as in “Conan the Barbarian” because he was a force to be reckoned with – larger…
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New Jersey Diner
The Americana Diner in Hightstown, NJ. Gleaming stainless steel, bright neon lights – cases full of goodies… 5 shot HDR handheld. Making the photo Saying “HDR” in a note on Flickr might be called “trolling for pixel-peepers”. But this shot begged for HDR. The contrast ratios were extreme – we’ve got direct line-of-sight to both…
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Chillin’ (New Jersey Lake)
Chillin’ Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski This is Dennis. Dennis is reading a book, waiting while his wife rides her horse around the wildlife preserve surrounding this lake in central NJ. I rode my bicycle within a half mile of this spot a hundred times when I lived in NJ and never even knew the lake…
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Too Late for Church
Too Late for Church Sadly the windmills on top of the modern structure are spinning so fast in the winds of the approaching storm that the blades are blurred in this shot. The future bearing down on the past – the kind of thing old guys like me think about :-)
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Pre-Apocalypse Portland Redux
This verion is “out of camera” plus one click in the Photoshop Topaz Adjust plugin, then Imagenomic’s Noiseware. Ironically, this looks more "real" than straight out of camera… Maybe one could load the out of camera shot with this one as a layer and blend the two, making this look more like out of camera…
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Pre-Apocalypse Portland
Straight out of camera (+3/4 stop exposure in Adobe CAmera RAW). Several long days on the IT job: 12+ hrs on Friday – 10+ yesterday… But while working yesterday a storm blew through downtown Portland and I happened to glimpse the light out a window (no windows in server rooms…), ran and got my camera…
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Minneapolis – View from the Stone Arch Bridge
by chris_rutkowski I took the exposures for this during my trip to Minnesota last summer, but only just got to process it this week. Minneapolis is a vibrant, growing metropolis. But down by the Mississippi a district of old buildings has been preserved near St. Anthony Falls. This falls is the only falls on the…
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Mary’s Gone…
Mary’s Gone… Originally uploaded by chris_rutkowski (slowly catching up) Mary Travers died today. That’s “Mary” as in “Peter, Paul and Mary”. Let me tell you a story: A long time ago when the world was on the verge of Vietnam, and I was just a high school kid, I went to hear PP&M sing at…