HOTPPG Image Competition

We had our last regular meeting of the HOTPPG two weeks ago.  As always we had our image competitions.  The challenge for this month was Low Light images. It was a black and white print competition.  While we were on our cruise in August, I took photographs during the entertainment in the evening.  In looking at them, there was one that struck me as a good candidate for conversion to black and white.  So, I used Nik Silver Effects Pro and converted it to black and white, and then cropped it square. It ended up coming in second, but that was enough to guaranty that I would win the Black and White Artist competition for the year.

Spotlight

Marlin and Riesel

We were headed to Galveston the other day and I happened to notice just south of Marlin there was a windmill and a tree on the side of the road.  I made not of it and went back the other day to get some pictures. I had been thinking about black and white images, and thought this would make a good one.

Falls County Windmill

Driving there, I noticed along the side of the road in Riesel there was an old barn and a field in which there were several bales of hay.  So, I stopped there on the way home and got that as well.

Reisel Hay