RetouchPRO - Entries for September 2008

We all came to RetouchPro.com because we are interested in editing photos -- retouching new or old images, restoring damaged images, or creating painterly impressions from a photo.

Everything we do here starts with the photographic image.

The image came first. That is where my fascination still lies.

Photojojo, Horst on Flickr, & creating connections

Posted 09-08-2008 at 12:35 PM by CJ Swartz
Updated 09-08-2008 at 07:31 PM by CJ Swartz

Photojojo

has a twice-a-week newsletter aimed at sharing ideas for taking pictures. Today's idea looks at adding an object to a background that creates a connection between the two. Their example focuses on a photographer -- Horst (hb19 on Flickr) who "finds the perfect sky or set of clouds and gives them their object counterpart. The cloud shooting out from a bottle’s top. The sun’s perfect, shiny orb behind his ET-like finger. The fluffy ice-cream cloud on top of its cone....

CJ Swartz

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Posted in Photography

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We all know it -- photographs are treasures

Posted 09-07-2008 at 12:50 PM by CJ Swartz
Updated 09-08-2008 at 12:36 PM by CJ Swartz

My brother died last Sunday. (Aug. 31st, 2008)

His diagnosis of myeloma cancer had been a shock, although he and I knew his weight loss might be due to some form of cancer, but his downhill dive while in the hospital (pneumonia and other infections) surprised him and all of us. He was (only) 69, and we had relatives who lived well into their 80's; he had been a career military man - strong, active, and only slightly damaged during his tours; he certainly prided himself on his strength...

CJ Swartz

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