Available Light: Korea

I have made yet another photo page from my "archives:" Available Light: Korea is now online (check out the totem poles).

Available Light: Kyoto

I continue to dig through digitized archives of my photos from Japan, using Picasa2 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 to improve the image quality.

I'm still very new to digital image editing, but I've noticed that pictures scanned from slides, negatives, and prints all appear underexposed on my monitor. Picasa2 tends to under-adjust these pictures, while Adobe PSE3 tends to over-adjust.

In any case, I've posted the best images from two trips to Kyoto at my newest photo blog, Available Light: Kyoto.

An unseasonably cool spring

... and now the rainy season has arrived on wasabi-green clouds. Tonight, as Rumi and I walked the hundred meters or so to Royal Host for dinner, rain slashed under wind-pulled umbrellas and crept into my Gore-Tex ankle boots.