Come see us Open Studios Santa Cruz Art Tour, October 15, and 16.

11:00am-5:00pm, 910 Pelton Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

“Crossing the Antarctic Convergence: the Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica”

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Courting king penguin couple on rocky beach in South Georgia.

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Audubon Speaker Series
Midway Atoll: 60 People and 2 Million Birds

Dave Hartley and Jeanine Lovett
San Francisco: Thursday, July 15
7 p.m. refreshments, 7:30 p.m. program

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge has opened to small groups of visitors again. This nature lover’s paradise supports 17 seabird species, including the largest Laysan Albatross colony in the world. Dave Hartley and Jeanine Lovett’s presentation is based on a trip they took to the atoll in 2009. Through photographs, they will show life in the Albatross colony—including Laysan, Black-footed, and Short-tailed Albatrosses—along with Red-tailed Tropicbirds, Red-footed Boobies, Great Frigatebirds, White Terns, and Laysan Ducks. They will also discuss the environmental issues affecting the atoll.

Dave Hartley, born and educated in England, has lived in the Bay Area since 1997. A passionate photographer, he has visited all seven continents, including three trips to Antarctica. Jeanine Lovett was born and raised in San Diego, and studied art and design in San Francisco. She works as a freelance graphics designer and, like Dave, is a passionate photographer. Dave and Jeanine were married in Antarctica

San Francisco programs have moved to the First Unitarian Universalist Church and Center located at 1187 Franklin street (at Geary)

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Check out Music by John Paul www.jpcmusic.com

Album will soon be on itunes for down loads. His first album was called “The first mile” and this album is called “-Continued:” Also Available on iTunes!

I have figured out a work around for this problem. I use Nikon NX sometimes to process my raw file. In Aperture right click on photo and pick show in finder. Right click on image in finder and choose Photoshop or Nikon NX. Process photo and open PSD or tif in Photoshop. Go back to Aperture click on photo click on External Editor (I have this short cut icon in my tool bar). Take the layer from the Photoshop processed image and put is on top of the Aperture file, go to layers and flatten image, finally save file. It is a great experiment to process it in both Aperture and Photoshop and see witch you prefer.
This also works with making a panoramic image. I first in Aperture “stack” my images for the panoramic. After I make my panoramic in Adobe Bridge Photoshop tools. Go back to Aperture click on first photo click on External Editor. with the Aperture file in Photoshop change the image size to match the Panoramic image drag the layer over and flatten image, Save and done.

Wine and cheese Gallery Reception Saturday January 10th at 2:00pm at Keeble & Shuchat, 290 California Avenue, Palo Alto on the Second floor.  Reception is from 2:00 till 5:00.
Dave and I have 47 of our photographs on display in the gallery at Keeble & Shuchat Photography. The collection consists of landscape and wildlife photography from the African Savannah to the frozen continent of Antarctica. The exhibitions runs Dec 2 through Jan 14. Keeble & Shuchat is near a Cal train Station and there is plenty of free parking.

Gallery exhibit at Keeble & Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto. December 2 to January 15th. There is 47 prints on display, photos range from Africa to Antarctica.  Photos are upstairs on the Second floor.

Keep January 10th open for a possible Wine & Cheese party more details to follow. Keeble and Shuchat address is 290 California Avenue in Palo Alto, Near the Caltrain Station.

Aperture will not display correctly an image with a saved selection or with a alpha channel layer, that is not being used in a mask. If you have a selection saved or channel layer it will show part of the file in black. The first example I have saved a selection / channel of the sky so that before I print the sky I do not want to sharpen the sky. I might want to do some noise reduction of the sky. This photo was taken before I had a D3 camera and it was somewhat dark and the boat was moving like crazy so I had to pump up the ISO to take the photo.

The example is the Alpha channel that Aperture can’t handle.#1 option is to delete the channel and save the file and your done.
#2 option if you want to save the selection is to click on the channel. In the menu go up to -Selection- click on -save selection-

The go to your layers pallet create a curves layer – click OK button because we are not making any changes we only want to save the selection. Next make sure your color is pure black, then click on the mask, In the menu go to – Edit – Fill – After that is done delete the channel.

It should look like this -

Now your done just save the file and aperture will update the file, if it does not show up right away go to full screen view by hitting the F key, to go back hit the F key again.

This may sound like too much work, but is is better than recreating a selection.

I know that I am attracted to certain color combinations and I could see that at the Fillmore Jazz festival show. Here are some examples.