For my Cuesta photography class, we had to capture photos that exemplify various composition principles.  From these many photos, we had to pick our four “hero” photos.  Each “hero” photo represents our best photo with each representing a different composition technique.  These are my four “here” photos.

Frame Within the Frame: Topkapi Palace, the door frame is the outer frame with the woman wearing the hijab centered

 

Diagonals: the lines of the cloth guide one’s eyes, tea house during Istanbul Culinary Walking Tour

 

Fore, Middle, and Background:  Istanbul synagogue, foreground highlights bullet from a terrorist in the front chair, middle-ground shows other chairs, background is the rear of the synagogue

 

Symmetry:  Balat neighborhood of Istanbul

I’ve been a bit frustrated with how some of my indoor photos have a yellow tint to them. Although I’m taking a photography class at Cuesta, we haven’t discussed “white balance” yet.  I did a bit of research on my own and tweaked two photos in Adobe Lightroom.  What a big difference!

Before white balance adjustment…

After white balance adjustment…!

Before…

After…!

Welcome to my very first post!


When setting up this website, I thought the learning curve might be a bit steep…deciding on a website host, setting up the site itself, learning how to use the site.  Yep!  I was right!  This has been and continues to be a bit of a challenge.  However, here goes!  My very first blog post!

What’s coming up:  I’m going to transfer my photos and commentary from Facebook over to my blog.  This process will take quite awhile, and that’s okay!  The journey – both literally and figuratively – continues.

In the meantime, I’m using this blog to post photos and reflections on my current travels.  When I’m home, I’ll play “catch-up” and post pics and commentary on past adventures.

[Update:  As of 08.08.2022, all p0st-retirement travels have been transferred to my blog!  It was a long and cumbersome process, but now I am posting current adventures, thoughts, reflections, photos.]