Took this photo on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness while doing a little citizen science project.
Every two weeks I go set nine traps for native pollinators. Three each of green, white, and red and then later go collect the bugs and put them in sealed tubes. I doing it for a professor at the University of Oklahoma. It’s all fine and good except my wife is not happy about frozen bugs in our freezer. At the end of next month I send all my data and the bugs to the professor.
A scene on my hike bike to the parking lot. I’ve been experimenting with RAW photography on my cell phone. I use an app called Halide to do it. RAW format photos are lots bigger than jpg files and thus contain lots of information. The visuals of the photos are kind of flat and dull but you can edit them with many phone based apps such as snapseed. I use the phone based photoshop and lightroom. I think it can really add a lot of dimensions to the photo under the right circumstances. I like how the above photo turned out.
As you may know if you have been following me for a while I am impatient with the purist ethic of photography to use no filters or processing. I respect if that is what you want to do, that’s great. Me, I love monkeying around with photos. Many of photos are unprocessed though, I would guess maybe half to two thirds.
Here is an unedited photo of some evening color from my front porch. I love it when my fellow skywatchers take photos from their property.
And here is an unedited photo from my back porch one morning.
And another from the greenbelt in our subdivision.
And yet another from the elementary school where I am a volunteer reading tutor.
That’s it for this week. I am linking with Skywatch Friday.
