A detail of one of the doors of the Synagogue of Santa Maria de la Blanca, in Toledo, Spain. (A rather curious name for a synagogue…) The interior was also beautiful, with arches and bas relief detail in white stucco. Unfortunately, the attendants were very serious about enforcing the photography restriction.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on the print version of the travelogue from our honeymoon in Spain and Portugal. This project has dragged on, and I’m pleased to have it nearly done. One benefit of procrastinating on this has been that my color correction skills in Photoshop have improved quite a bit. I’m going back through the photos to touch up some of them, and figured I’d share a few here. These paving stones were on the Passeig de Gracia, in Barcelona.
From the gardens at the Harkness Mansion. I’ve been doing some more scanning, now that I’m getting near the end of the slides in my archive. Negatives are easier to scan, but a lot harder to edit and select when I don’t have matching contact sheets.
So far, my blog posts have primarily been individual shots from my archives that were not specifically part of a bigger project. This photo is from my trip to Spain and Portugal; this is in the Bairro Alto district of Lisbon. In addition to trying to put some order to my masses of negatives and slides, I’ve also been working on a hard copy version of the travelogue from this trip.
From the garden of our friends Rudy and Robin.
Here it is, my very first blog post. This blog is my platform for total world domination. Oh, wait… guess I should keep that to myself. But seriously, this is my place to put my photos out into the world. My structure for doing a little bit every day, in the hopes of eventually getting my photographic work from the last 15 years organized and “out there.” So, for a start, here’s an old favorite. This was taken in the churchyard in King’s Lynn, in England, while I was living there in 1994.