This image is the single drop hang on the lemon grass at my backyard.

The background color is from the rose petal.

I am sure you would love this.

It is a great shot.

Thanks for your visit, comment & Fave.

I appreciate it.

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as we used to say in college!

Here’s a funny quote from Clay Blackmore’s seminar earlier this week…

“Beauty is in the eye of the checkbook holder.”

The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)
www.ciwem.org
For Immediate Release: October 2007

PICTURING THE ENVIRONMENT

Photo journalist Sudipto Das is the Environmental Photographer of the Year.

Over 600 international amateur and professional photographers entered this year’s Environmental Photographer of the Year competition. Entries to six categories were judged by some of the most respected environmental photographers in the industry, including Gary Braasch, winner of the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, Anthony Epes and Ronnie Israel.

Sudipto Das became the Environmental Photographer of the Year after his image Hard World won the Urban Environment category and was then selected by Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, Baroness Barbara Young, as the overall winner.

Baroness Barbara Young said:

"This photograph brings home just how many people are excluded from access to good environments due to poverty. This is a beautiful and heartbreaking image."

As Environmental Photographer of the Year, Sudipto received £500 courtesy of competition sponsor, Black and Veatch, the global engineering, consulting and construction company. On receiving his award, Sudipto said:

“My photograph is one of the most interestingly candid photographs I have ever taken in my career. It portrays the socio-economic condition of third world countries - lack of housing, inappropriate hygiene and unhealthy environments increase the risk of exposure to diseases and street violence for poor children such as the boy in the picture.”

“I am grateful to the honourable judges who have selected...

If you can’t have fun while doing what you like best. Give it up and find something you do like.

Shot with Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H1 Enhanced on Adobe Photoshop using auto color adjustment and auto contrast features. Resized to bring out more details in stamins and the bee.

A lot of photographers have been thinking of getting into the fine art of macro photography.

There is a whole world in macro that hasn’t been explored yet and today’s new and modern digitalized equiptment is much more flexible and much easier to use in tandem with computer programs.

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Iguana by Frank B. Yuwono

First let me give credit where credit is due, I learned of these from David Ziser, he uses these two pieces of software as part of his workflow and if one of the most talented and successful photography studios uses them, why wouldn’t I?

The first is IrfanView, a fast and compact image viewer/converter. IrfanView lets you open, view, and edit images, rotate, zoom and so much more. You can also cut, crop images, and apply batch conversions.

What I really like about IrfanView is the ability to copy/move images quickly and easily to different folders. How it works is simple, as you browse through a folder of newly downloaded images for the very first time with a singe keyboard command (F7 to Move or F8 to Copy), you can select from one of ten (customizable) folders to drop images into for later processing.

Another cool feature is the ability to convert an image to grayscale with a single click (not permanently, just to see what it would look like), this is helpful in the sorting process as well, as one of the folders I sort to is specifically for black and white conversion.

Want to batch convert an entire folder to black and white or sepia? IrfanView can do that too.

Lastly (not that this is the last thing it con do, just the last thing I am going to mention) should you be…