Bruce, You may not have to go that far (although old-town Auburn is a fun place to visit). All you need to do is find a location (maybe the old part of Roseville or Rocklin) that has hundred-year-old brick building. There are a number of them in, for example, midtown Sacramento. A lot of these buildings have interesting doors, windows, or other ornamentation. Of course the gold rush towns (Nevada City, Auburn, Placerville, Sutter Creek, Angels Camp, etc., etc., etc.) are perfect for finding this kind of subject. I've been focusing (literally) almost exclusively on my 6 month old daughter as my photo subject of late.
Regarding the B&W treatment, the digital lith process started out as a B&W process for me. I almost accidentally discovered that leaving the colors in the highlight layer can yield the washed hand-colored look that I like. It's a pretty cool process, actually, and it's pretty flexible, to. If you're interested, we could get together sometime and I can show you the layer construction on a bunch of the images that I've done. The other examples that I've shared with the PDML are at http://www.westerickson.net/gmb2005 Once again, the web really doesn't do justice to the prints. --Mark Bruce Dayton wrote: >You're right. I didn't look at the others. Having gone back now, I >like the second and third images better. It is a cool subject. I >played around with one of them a bit, and almost feel that a B&W >treatment might further enhance it. > >Yes, I am about 15 miles away from there. I may go up - take my >daughter Erin - and see if I can find it. Nice work. > >-- >Best regards, >Bruce
