Window Light (Moonlight)

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 Nikon D5600, Nikkor 18-55mm lens, ISO 5000, F5.6, 1/2sec.
Luminar4: Aerial Faded + Paint: Polygon Shape Fill + Photos "Edit&Create": Crop

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Gigersaurus Behemoth

 Pencil in 11"x8.5" medium weight sketchbook; + Luminar 4 White Balance Advanced -100 Whites and Blacks; + Smart Contrast - 51; + "Creative" Sunrays.

2/19/2020, Harmon Field north towards the creek

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I thought I might walk a few laps at the track but that mean north wind blew me back into the car, and I just took some pics through the windshield.

Still playing with the "new" Nikon D5600 I got last August. It's so much unlike the film type SLR's I used to use I'm not really too enthused. At least these are in focus...

Also learning new editing software that came with Windows 10, which seems a bit limited compared to what I'm used to but I think I'm done with ArcSoft. I downloaded their free trial version of PhotoStudio but when it came time to pay I broke down and for once in my life read the Terms of Use agreement, and could not agree.
I don't exactly speak 'legalese' but it read to me like they are reserving the right to make any use they see fit of anything you scan into their software (pullin' a Zuckerberg?), and they got rules concerning what type of thing you're allowed to put in! After you've paid for it, in your own home, on your own private computer. Maybe I was tired, maybe I read it wrong, but I hit the "no thanks" button.
Anybody read the Terms for Adobe PhotoShop?

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Now that I think of it though, it's probably way too late to worry about any level of "privacy" - or any kind of "rights" for that matter -  on a computer. I've never read the Terms of Use for Microsoft either...

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"-- dear old Ireland, where the beautiful Shannon flows."

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Approx. 5.5"x8.25", watercolor on paper.
The title is from the quote of unknown origin I put right across the thing, like a greeting card - well it was my Mom's birthday or Xmas or something - I was making a greeting card. Below is the unedited scan of it just as I found it, in a manilla envelope, stuck in the closet where it's undoubtedly been ever since I gave it to her in 1975.

Well how's this gonna look

                the green(ish) background
                                                                                

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Sublimation II: The Graying

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Sublimation I

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Up! And On!

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Up! And On!
To ever greater
heights of
aimless wandering

Krups Baby, Starbucks Man

Dig It Daddy-o

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1974...

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Actually Christmas 1973, pencil on drawing paper, about 9"x12" without the calendar part, 17"x12" altogether. Last minute gift for Mamaw.
The old homeplace I grew up in, currently holed up in again. If you look close you can see ice sickles on the small tree to the right, and that's why the limbs on the big ivy covered oak are white--ice storm that winter.
That barrel on a frame used to hold kerosene ("coal oil" Papaw called it) and that fed the heat stoves in the kitchen and front room.

Here's the whole thing still in the frame. It's been hanging on the wall in the living room ever since...well, 1974.

These are a couple of attempts to edit the photo in the frame, under glass, to get a clearer image of just the drawing...

Not satisfactory so I switched to the scanner...

...on which it wouldn't fit...

...so I went to cropping and editing...

Finally came up with this, same as the one at the top. (This version makes it more like 7"x12") The top one is sized to fit this page, but the others are larger and can be clicked for more detail.

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