I’ve become increasingly enamored with Photoshop curves latest, especially for toning monochrome images.

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I’ve included a zucchini parmesan recipe that would work pretty well with whatever squash and squashlike veggies you have laying around. Like eggplant. Wait.. is eggplant a squash? I don’t know, but this tasted really really good. Really really really good and the instructions are comprised almost entirely of “throw everything in a bowl” which is about my speed. Served here with some Amy’s Tomato Bisque and a slide of fancy focaccia from the Coffee Depot in Christiansburg, Virginia.

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I can’t believe it has been two years since I’ve been down to Mount Rogers. I wish that I could reminisce more about what a magical place it is, it’s unique landscape dotted with wild ponies and wind blown trees, but I’m pretty sick with some sort of summer ick. It is making my head swim pretty badly, so I’ll have to leave you with just a photo.

I needed a good bit of processing on this one to really bring out the mood that I saw in it. The overlay is from my Rollei’s viewfinder, plus a nice rustica curve and some general tweaking.

Another shot from the session with my fancy new SystemPro LiteTent.

I don’t know why I held off buying a light tent for so long. At $40, I could always reason that a light tent was something I could just set up with the materials on hand. Well, I could but I never really did. Sure, I would throw a towel over the end table every once in a while and shoot objects, but it was rather inconvenient and I rarely actually did it. When I did, I had trouble controlling the light and the glare. It was all so cumbersome.

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