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Reflections by Laura Roberts This blog will reflect my thoughts and you'll see some of my photography, also. Some photos may not have been taken recently.

I was on the photography team at the Kentucky Humane Society in Louisville, KY, so expect to see some cute cats and dogs.

07/10/2021

When I updated DeNoise, I was warned I would have to reselect the catalog, but when I tried, it said I had Lightroom open elsewhere. I do have it on a laptop, so made sure it was not open, and it wasn't. Have spent three days trying to figure this out. Last night, it dawned on me that my picture files and catalog are on an external, so wondered if that was "the something" that was open. I unplugged it, restarted the computer, plugged it back in and was able to then select the catalog update that I've been using. Sometimes I get stumped on the simplest things!

Saturday, I met folks from The Photo Forum at the Old Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. One of the great things about...
30/08/2021

Saturday, I met folks from The Photo Forum at the Old Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort. One of the great things about going with other photographers is I learn a lot just by watching them shoot and talking to them when they aren't busy. Some made a better shot than this by lying on the floor or on a step, but at my age, I have my limits. I was able to capture this while staying on my feet with some hints from Ron.

One of my photography clubs has a Digital Night once a month...lately it has been on Zoom. One of the members, usually R...
19/08/2021

One of my photography clubs has a Digital Night once a month...lately it has been on Zoom. One of the members, usually Ron who is fantastic both in editing and in teaching it, presents an editing skill to review or learn. Along with examples and demonstrations, I always learn something useful on Digital Night.

Last month, he talked about re-editing some pics we edited several years ago. He said along with our newer knowledge and the improvement of the software, he thought we'd see a big difference.

This month, he took a couple photos shot by a club member who'd just returned from a vacation to some beautiful areas in the west, but the smoke had made almost all their photographs a big disappointment to them. Ron was able to edit the smoke almost completely out of a couple photographs and ended up saving the images.

I needed a photograph with a similar problem, that I could practice the new skill on. No smoke, but a lousy, hazed picture was taken on the waterfront in Charlestown, South Carolina. , I could see something out in the water, but had no idea it was Fort Sumter until I got home and looked at the shot on the computer.

I was using my 70-300 lens on my Canon 80D camera and had it set at its max...300mm. It not only was taken hand held, but there was a cat in a backpack on my back. I know better, but it was a last minute shot right before moving north.

I made a virtual copy in Lightroom so we could compare the before and after. It was shot in Raw. Granted, it is still a very poor quality picture and would not be of much use other than as a personal memory of a trip you took, but it took me much longer to write about it, than to edit it.

This was the most unique lighthouse I can remember ever seeing. It is on Sullivan's Island in Charleston, South Carolina...
17/08/2021

This was the most unique lighthouse I can remember ever seeing. It is on Sullivan's Island in Charleston, South Carolina. I had a memory card of photographs taken on our vacation in late April. that I could not bear to process and show, because we had an emergency return home. My husband was admitted to the hospital and died three weeks later. It's time to focus on the interesting things we saw and fun we had.

We were leaving the beach and walking back to our car when I took this picture. You can't even see all of the house on the right. It was gigantic!

Does this sound familiar? You put the macro lens on your camera. You attach your camera to your tripod. Just as you get ...
11/08/2021

Does this sound familiar? You put the macro lens on your camera. You attach your camera to your tripod. Just as you get your subject framed and the settings the way you want them, the wind starts moving your subject. Today I lucked out and was able to get a few without obvious blur.

If I'm going to a farm, I want a picture of the barn. There were more than one on the property, but this one was the clo...
08/08/2021

If I'm going to a farm, I want a picture of the barn. There were more than one on the property, but this one was the closest to me. The farm grew more than flowers. I cannot tell what is planted in this picture, but it looks healthy. I regret not taking a picture of how they grew strawberries...in cone shaped containers, stacked vertically on a metal pole. The berries were much cleaner and it kept them from rotting on the ground.

Sunflower taken at Evans Orchard and Cider Mill in Georgetown, Kentucky. One club was going on Saturday, but being the d...
07/08/2021

Sunflower taken at Evans Orchard and Cider Mill in Georgetown, Kentucky. One club was going on Saturday, but being the day of my family reunion, I knew I could not go then, so when I heard a small group of photography friends of mine were going on the previous Wednesday, I jumped at the chance. We mainly went to photograph sunflowers, but there were other flowers and butterflies to capture. And, except for the flat tire I had, it was a marvelous day.

On the last day of the month, I hiked with the Louisville Hiking Club. We met at Charlestown State Park. I quickly reali...
03/08/2021

On the last day of the month, I hiked with the Louisville Hiking Club. We met at Charlestown State Park. I quickly realized the pace was going to be too fast for me to take many pictures. I did get a photo of these Snowpinks on Trail 1.

I don't often have extraneous people in my photographs, but I wanted to show how big these Forest Giants were. This is M...
02/08/2021

I don't often have extraneous people in my photographs, but I wanted to show how big these Forest Giants were. This is Mama Loumari. She's portrayed pregnant. (No word on when her due date is!)

Last weekend, my daughter and I hiked at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, Kentucky. There are three w...
01/08/2021

Last weekend, my daughter and I hiked at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Clermont, Kentucky. There are three wonderful wooden troll statues known as Forest Giants in the park. They are not all together, but the walks between them are not too far or you can park a short distance from each of them. They were created by Thomas Dambo, a Danish artist, out of wood recycled from local resources. This one is Little Elina.

Even though there is a bit of an old-time look at Maker's Mark, they also have modern art scattered around. They have in...
29/07/2021

Even though there is a bit of an old-time look at Maker's Mark, they also have modern art scattered around. They have indoor glass work done by Dale Chihuly. I'm not sure who did the outdoor pieces, but I thought the large one with the mirror was pretty cool.

Have you ever been to Maker's Mark Distillery? It's in Marion County, Kentucky, near Loretto. I don't even like bourbon,...
29/07/2021

Have you ever been to Maker's Mark Distillery? It's in Marion County, Kentucky, near Loretto. I don't even like bourbon, but I like the village-like atmosphere, especially if I have a camera in my hand. Their bourbon is easy to recognize because the top of every bottle is hand-dipped in red wax. Notice, that red is also the pop color around the grounds.

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