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Congratulations. Aging can at times be trying. I'm 71 and time is starting to say, "I told you so", but I plan on being around for a while yet. For "I have promises to keep/And miles to go before I sleep." At least I hope so. Being able to lift a camera goes a long way.

Mirror mirror on the ground.:ROFLMAO:

There is little girl in Laos named Laura (they spell it ຫຼໍລາ with two L sounds, one high one low) after my late mother. When my "son" there asked me to name his new daughter, I asked for a day or two to think of an appropriate Hmong or Lao name, since the only name I could think of was that of...

Blaney at 93

Definitely getting there.

You could do more in Photoshop, but in Snapseed, I'd try dodging his face and then reducing the saturation a little. See if reducing red (yellow + magenta) gets you closer to what you want. Since you cannot isolate the face in a path, working globally will be a matter of splitting the...

Sony a7ii and Konica Hexanon 40mm f1.8 @ f2.8 A short afternoon visit, talking about jig-saws and soup, in no particular order.

My sister, finding something compelling on her cell phone.

Reprocessing is OK. The file is just raw information we can handle it how we want. I reprocessed the shot of my mother from 2006 also. What I'd done to it in 2006 now seems to me unspeakably awful. I've gotten better in Photoshop, and probably my ideas of what I want have changed too.

Good enough indeed, and then some. It is a very nice portrait.

From 2006, with my first serious digital camera, the Olympus E300, at my mother's 90th birthday party. She was lively and dancing and certainly did not seem 90. But she started to decline about 3 years later and died about 2 weeks shy of her 99th birthday. A fun loving and loving lady who...

It was quite sad. Children with special needs in remote villages can be ignored and left out because no one is trained to help them. Big Brother Mouse has been making a big push to teach Lao sign language. The book party was heartwarming, and heart rending at moments. These kids were hungry...

All with the OM G. Zuiko 35mm f2.8, all tweaked jpegs from the camera.

I really need to get out an buy some new ones. Some have gotten so raggedy that even I threw them out. All cotton! They make great polishing rags.

His 92nd birthday

A trip down memory lane. Years ago when Margaret Whiting was in Albuquerque, I got to spend some time with her. She graciously agreed to sit after a show for some shots at the piano. She sang "Misty" for me, a song she forever owns in my mind, and was gracious and down to earth. Shot with my...

I like it too.

Thank you!

At the wat

My sisters

They are both wonderful, but yes, I prefer the portrait orientation also.

Nice.

I hate that these mobile "devices" have such good cameras that I sometimes rely on them. This is from my new Samsung Galaxy Tab s7, a nice little item I shouldn't have bought - but that's another story. Me almost 4 weeks into my 8th decade, having turned 70 earlier in the month. Time - and...

You can hold a camera before your morning coffee? I'm impressed.

More of a «this is what I look like in my 7th decade on a good day" than anything very creative or photographically interesting. A cell phone selfie, to boot.

I couple from the past few days. The folk art compelling and slightly disturbing, as I think it was meant to be. I was shooting with the Leica X, and since I could not back up to get myself out of the frame, I tried positioning myself so my shadow as successfully incorporated into the second...

It's funny, I was just thinking the other day when looking at some 3200 shots from the Leica X1 with a lower resolution sensor, what a great job it did at higher iso. Granted I typically use my raw file at all iso's and always do so at higher speeds. The attached photo is a 50% crop of a 3200...

My sister at Christmas time. It's not photographically compelling (there's no place in my small dwelling to avoid a cluttered background), but to see her smiling was wonderful after a year colored for her in large part by the final illness and death of my brother, who lived with her, only 15...

Nice!

I say keep it.

I am sorry for your loss.

My sister and I were walking across the Boston Common on our way to the subway after planning my brother's funeral with the wonderful rector of Emmanuel Church. So we felt weighted down, to say the least. This man was exuberantly singing, to his own made up tune, "Anybody have any change...

Thanks for the good wishes concerning my brother, who passed peacefully at 11PM Saturday night. We were with him. It was as peaceful as could be after the previous struggle. He took a breath and then he simply did not take the next one -- no struggle, no sign of anything. If, as some say, the...

The last picture I took of my brother and probably the last I ever will take. This was taken on Tuesday evening at a good seafood restaurant on the South Shore of Boston. Saturday, at 4AM, he was rushed to the hospital bleeding internally and vomiting volumes of blood from esophageal varices...

GREAT HATS!!

The abbot of Wat Buddha Mongkolnimit in Albuquerque NM. I took just my cell phone and tablet to the Songkran celebration, and this is from a Galaxy S3 phone. Nothing special as a camera, but adequate in bright sunlight, and I like this shot of a man I expect to be talking to more over the next...

When I was working as a black and white photo tech at a custom lab, my favorite job was the copy work. I loved working on these old photos, each with a story, each saved and copied out of love. It convinced me that notwithstanding all the great and important photographic art out there, these...

My mother and her twin, my uncle Lloyd, would have been 100 years old today. I went to the Santuario de Chimayo, lit a candle, even if my "faith" long ago fled. She'd have liked the gesture. Than I went and had ice cream and cake at a cafe she liked here in Albuquerque:

That's the thing that is so very hard. You know you are performing and act of mercy, but part of you feels it is an act of betrayal. It is one of the hardest feelings I've ever had to cope with.

Ray, I'm so sorry. I've been there more than once and know what a heart wrenching decision it is. No need to explain the joy she brought you; anyone who has lived with and loved an animal understands perfectly. The pictures you made of her with your impeccable photographic skills will provide...

Wonderful, Antonio. That Nikon is in very capable hands. You could get great shots with "a sensor and a coke bottle".

I haven't seen that face since the last time I watched Donnie Darko.

My neighbor's grandson in another state is doing a school project on his favorite person -- his grandmother! -- and needed some pictures.

Creeeepy. But FUN! Nice black and and white work.

The dark, circular bit looks like a camera lens.:laugh:

Very moving.