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Friday, February 20, 2015

Greatest Hits of 2014 - Last Rays of Sun



About this image:

This intent of this image was to capture the sense of place.  These two young women are sitting on a centuries old stone bench in the late afternoon slanting rays of sunshine - stone bench, stone walls, stone roadway, bikes with baskets which are the most common form of transportation in this Italian town, are nearby awaiting their riders.  I chose to remove all color from the image except the red reflector on the bike. The location is the city of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

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About this series:

Last year, I created about 20,000 images with my point-and-shoot camera.  Of those, I published about 2,000 in 329 separate blog posts. I sat down recently and wandered through those 2,000 images and decided to select around 20 of them to re-publish as my "Greatest Hits of 2014," along with a comment about the image.

First, a comment about digital photography. Comparing digital to film, if I use a purchase price of $7 per roll (for a 36-exposure roll of color film) and add another $13 per roll to process as a benchmark, those 20,000 images would have used about 555 rolls at a total cost of more than $11,000! which would have been unaffordable.

Since I didn't use film, my only cost was the memory card and batteries in the camera. Essentially zero cost per image. No wonder digital camera photography has taken the world by storm.


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