Photo a Day - 2014

This gallery represents a continuation of the Photo-a-Day challenge started in 2012 and continued through 2013. The goal is to continue to publish one photograph shot every day in 2014. There are no set themes, so the subjects will vary widely from day-to-day, although there will be a very strong emphasis on black and white as well as street photography in the third year of this project.
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Gate's Ajar

Gate's Ajar
26 January 2014 -- 26/365
North Providence, Rhode Island

Momma's, don't let your children grow up to be systems programmers. A hardware implementation that started at 9:00 PM last night turned into a marathon session that reached intermission at 1:00 PM today, with a reconvene at 8:00 PM tonight. As a result, I'm running on no sleep since about 5:00 AM Saturday morning, and it will likely be sometime tomorrow night before I actually get any. Such is the life of working in the technology field. Trust me, avoid the field like the plague.

The amount of time available for a photo today was extremely limited, so I stopped at one of my "safety shot" locations near my house. I planned to get some photos of the ice clad waterfall, but I really liked the look and field of this partially open gate at the entrance to the tennis courts in Notte Park. The very low light levels, thanks to a late afternoon sun and some thick, low clouds, created an interesting mood. Since it matched my "running on empty" mood, I did nothing to brighten the scene.

Post processing started with a classic filter in Topaz B&W FX. I adjusted color sensitivity sliders, adaptive exposure, regions, contrast, boost black, and boost white. A levels adjustment was added in PSE.

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Photo a Day - 2014