December 2, 1978

 At 3pm This Afternoon, By the Grace of God, We Will Celebrate 47 years of Marriage! It has been, and continues to be, the hardest job we've ever had, but NOTHING touches how rewarding it is!

 

That 47 years does not include the two years we dated or the two years we were engaged! Hallie, you know your arrival was.... The Rest of the Dream! 

  

I've Been Experimenting!

  But first of all let me make perfectly clear that this DOES NOT involve the use of AI ( artificial intelligence) or CGI ( computer generated images) ! I do use computer tools that are available to "process" my digital files, just in way they are not designed to be used. Or I use them at extreme levels, in combinations, or orders that are unusual.

  I have no use for AI or CGI, where you merely by voice or typed words descibe a "picture" and it is produced. Unfortunately this type of image is harder and harder to didtinguish from a photograph actually taken and processed by a human. And yes I know that the vast majority of photographs today use digital media!  Its exactly the same difference as manually driving a car or watching a movie while your car drives itself. 

  One of the difficulties in this is the struggle to make sure AI isnt sneaking itself into my process! As I write this I notice a little symbol off to one side of a pencil with a star beside it! I'll bet that clicking on it would let AI rewrite my words! I am NOT going to find out. 

 At any rate I'm having fun figuring out which images can be manipulated into something interesting , at least to me -and how to get there with tools/sliders that are basically just performing operations on the millions of pixels that make up a typical digital image!   

Here are two images, the first is a photograph captured and processed to reveal what I wanted- in the tradtional sense of color photography.  The second is that same image then made into something else?  I'm trying to decide just what to call this "new" finished image. Any Suggestions?

 

So We've Made it to Sunset

                                 For the first day of November 2025!

Happy Birthday

 To My Darling Wife, who is more wonderful and beautiful now than the day I first saw her, over 53 years ago. While that moment is forever etched into my mind I have no actual photo of it- just all the years she has been by me!

That photo was from the beginning of this century, to prove my point, here is one taken about an hour ago! More wonderful, more beautiful! Just look at those eyes!