Three of the best will be displayed at the Sanford Welcome Center for the Sanford Art Walk<\/a>. The show opens on the day of the Sanford Art Walk, Friday September 25th, from 6-9 PM at the Historic Sanford Welcome Center, \u00a0230 East First Street,\u00a0Sanford, FL 32771. I hope you can join me there. But for those who can’t, here’s a bit about what you’re missing.<\/p>\n As time goes on, I plan to add to this collection of photos. I’d be glad to hear your thoughts as well! Dzi\u0119kuj\u0119 bardzo!<\/em><\/p>\n I’ve been asked about what I do the photos in the collection Zd\u0119cia z Polski i Kres\u00f3w<\/em>. Do I take the original image and manipulate it through Photoshop or some other means of post-processing, or do i just print it as it comes out? Well, the answer is that I definitely manipulate it in some way. What I try to capture and present to the viewer is the scene as I saw it, what I saw in my mind at the moment I took the photo. Sometimes the framing of the original photo is a bit off, and I crop it. Often the brightness and contrast are not what I saw, but just what the camera saw–and I fix that. And sometimes the color, hue, and saturation are not what I remember, not what I saw. I fixt them all. I do not do a lot of heavy duty fixing, however. At the current time, I use a lightweight program, Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 to do that. I have experimented a bit with Gimp, and may use that some day. Sometimes after an image is printed, it still is not right, and so I redo it and print it again. Sometimes I print them myself, up to 8×10 size, and other times I send out for printing. \u00a0But at the end of the day, what you see is what I saw in my mind when I took the photo–it’s an accurate reflection of my memory. And hopefully my images express my deep love and respect for Poland and its borderlands and all the great sights I’ve seen there. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my trips to Poland, have have been fortunate to take a number of photographs of the site and people of Poland the the borderlands–specifically Ukraine, so far. Some of them are just OK, yet remind me of the places … Continue reading \n
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