B-Sides: No Standing

Another oldie. Also from 2012.

Ikea Paramus

Trial post using smartphone app. I may delete this later..

Update: I've figured out how to fix the aspect ratio on the cellphone camera. This 16:9 doesn't work vertically, at least not for this scene.

Update 2: I went ahead and cropped this down to 4:3 ratio.

Clouds thru GWB Cables

A second entry in the "clouds" photo club assignment for the week.

Windows

A strip of low-rise office buildings along my bike route in Ft. Lee, New Jersey. All top out at 2-3 stories in height. Glass, concrete, metal. A little composite material here and there.

High Rise

Forgot the name of this building, part of a complex of contemporary designs along the west side of Manhattan in the 55-58th street area. Strikes me as a sort of retro-futuristic look...

Here's a second one, with a reflection of the first one...

Don't know why but when I upload these to blogger I'm seeing a distinct purple cast that isn't there in photoshop, so I don't exactly know how to get rid of it...

Update: Because this is bugging me...

Here's a screen shot showing the PS and Blogger versions side-by-side. Same image file.

The purple cast is even stronger here. I thought maybe blogger was loading a cached version of the picture (I had corrected the color cast in an earlier version of the image before posting) so I changed the name of the file and reuploaded, but no change. Maybe I need to delete the post and start from scratch? Nope, doesn't fix the problem either...grrr.

UPDATE - Problem Solved:

In searching for a solution, I googled "purple color cast in blogger" and nothing came up. Then I noticed a different problem with washed out tonality in another photo - and googled a more general "poor image quality in Blogger" which led me to the solution. I had to go to google+ (which is intimately linked with blogger) and change my setting to turn off the "auto-enhance" feature.

Snow-Speckled

Once again click for the larger image to see the color and contrast as intended. From my replacement G15, so far no signs of sensor issues. but I'll shoot some clear skies tomorrow to be sure.

Time & Reflection

From a stroll around Fort Lee, NJ, yesterday evening.

Signs

It's been a while since I posted any signs, and here it was really just an excuse to get in the color of that painted brick.

Blue

Weights

These are weights on the front end of a tractor that keep it from tipping up as the tractor is pulling a heavy load or a stump out of the ground, etc. Again courtesy of Parks Department landscaping depot, yesterday.

Water Bugs & Reflections

Some little bugs that walk on the water (surface tension), like water striders only smaller - I think. The water itself is pretty green but at this angle we are getting the green amplified in some areas by reflections of the trees along the pond with other areas reflecting the nice clear blue sky today.

Drained Fountain

Not a bad metaphor for how I'm feeling, photographically. The heat spell doesn't help - you do not want to be outside at all with this kind of air quality, but that's just an excuse. I will keep chugging along....relief on Sunday/Monday.