Originally posted by gaweidert AggieDad,
Welcome aboard. You seem to be well traveled. I have driven past that trailer park several times. Hopefully you stopped and took in Watkins Glen State Park. Tons of photos as you walk the trail. The Finger Lake region in central NY is a pretty nice place to visit. The Iroquois had a legend that the lakes are the result of God placing his hand upon the land. I have a hard time disagreeing with them. Believe it or not, there is a Naval base on Seneca Lake.
gaweidert - We do travel a bit as we have an RV and we're retired. You bet we did Watkins Glen (from the top down - no fool, I). My first time to the Finger Lakes region was when my brother was at Cornell ("high above Cayuga's waters") back in the early 1950's when I was about 12. We went over to Watkins Glen at race time, The race(s) were still on public roads at that time and curbsides were being used as pits. It was a day or two before the actual race, but we did see cars heading out for practice runs.
Originally posted by voy-tech Nice compositions, although I don't care for the grainy - film-like look, especially the alley looks like the processing was over-done towards that look (at least in my opinion). I like the negative space of west texas. And the last one with the trailer park look a little like you went overboard with shadow recovery or hdr to me.
Voy-Tech - Yes I did go for a grainy look on the alley shot - maybe too much. But I actually did very little to the trailer park. It simply is what it is. I probably over processed several of the photos as I was working with new software (Tonality Pro) and was totally enamored with it. Thank you for mentioning West Texas as it is a favorite of mine.
I appreciate all the comments. I am a total novice, working to move from snapshots to photographs. That is why I now own my Pentax with a couple of lenses and the Canon super-zoom has been sent to my son-in-law.