Storm clouds on Highway 26

Photo I took of storm clouds during the summer of 2008 driving east along Nebraska Highway 26 near Castle Rock and Chimney Rock.

Jonas Paradise

I have been a volunteer at Jewish Graceland Cemetery for almost two years. I help with the cemetery maintenance—mainly cutting grass. I always try to take note of the tombstones and usually catch myself looking at the names and the ages of when they passed away. Today I was working on a section that I had not worked on before and found this tombstone. I was struck by the name on it.

Wrigley

A photo of our little dog, Wrigley, who was watching me as I took pictures of our garden. This is a rare pose as he was keeping still as I snapped the picture!

First sunflower of 2009

Frankenstein gravestone with sepia background

via flickr.com

OK, this is one of my pictures. On some of the History Channel documentaries, they have used spot color on either black and white photos or sepia photos to create an "historic" effect. The spot "color" is either black and white or sepia depending on the photo. It's an interesting effect when used within the context of old photographs.

I tried this with one of my pictures of the famous Frankenstein gravestone at Jewish Graceland Cemetery. The photo was originally taken in color. I first converted it to black and white and saved it (after saving a copy). I then added a duplicate layer and then converted it to sepia. I then used the eraser tool to "restore" the gravestone to black and white.

I use Paint.NET which is an excellent freeware program.

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