iPhone shot & processed

Out on a walk today, I grabbed these with the iPhone as they flew overhead. Canadian Geese headed South.

My first swim today after surgery, so thats some progress.

I posted my Silent Sunday picture over on Cliff538Pixels.

I spent some time over coffee with this recent book purchase. Way Beyond Monochrome. It’s a very large, heavy book with great paper quality. It’s a very technical but approachable deep dive into everything Monochrome. I wanted to refresh my knowledge on a few topics and see what the film development chapters had to say. It has some really good info and all the technical knowledge you could ever want.

Some topics include Fundamental Print Control, Presentation, Tone Reproduction, Image Capture, Negative Control, Advanced Print Control, Equipment, and Tools, Tips, and Tricks. The second edition is from 2011 and may seem dated, but most of this stuff doesn’t change. I’m glad I purchased it; it should be a good resource.

Note: If you’re interested in a photography book, especially an older one, be sure to search the Internet Archive first; they have an incredible number of books that you can look at, most with a few sample pages, or sometimes the whole book is available.

On the blog front, the makeovers are just about complete. New logos, headers and footers, dark, light, and paper themes, nav links, pages, custom 404 pages, and tons of small CSS tweaks and hidden gems. Three blogs, and I don’t know which one or ones to get rid of, so they all live on with their respective duties until one drops away naturally. I put a blog-family logo in the footer that links all three blogs together. It will be interesting to me to see which one gets left behind, if any. At this point, I have no idea.

The ultimate goal was to have everything on one blog, but I just cannot come up with a design that works like that. Maybe someday, but for now, it’s three blogs that make up the Cliff538 family. Survival of the fittest: the weak blog(s) will wither away naturally…

I hope your Sunday was peaceful and rejuvenating.

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