M.B. Marsh Design

I'm rather mystified as to why this one tree (a conifer, no less) has gone completely orange while its otherwise identical neighbours are healthy and green.

I still can't quite shake the feeling that digital shooting lacks something compared to good old-fashioned film. It's the highlights, I think; film tapers off (but never quite saturates) in bright spots where CCD and CMOS chips just clip at white. The film 'just works' in a way that requires careful tweaking to duplicate in digital.

On the flip side, all this computing power has given us new artistic techniques that were so tedious as to be nearly inconceivable in the old days. High dynamic range (HDR) processing is a great example. Ten years ago, I wouldn't have even thought of trying to squeeze an 18-stop (factor of 260,000) range from shadow to highlight into a single image. Now that it's possible, it looks really cool:

The title says it all. Enjoy.

Here's the "student ghetto" of downtown Kingston....

Part of the old Novelis (formerly Alcan) plant....

And for a little less sky and a little more architecture, we turn to the north facade of St. James' Church....