Mark, Congrats on the book award! The autumn color photos are wonderful. I don't know how you keep doing it - fantastic, muted colors. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Mark Cassino <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Everyone - > > Been off list for a while. Just over a month ago we started a major > remodeling project and my wife and I moved out of our house and into her > late-mother's condo. I had expected to be in the house regularly to use my > desktop and access photos, but with contractors taking several rooms down to > the studs and re- wiring most of the old knob and tube, I haven't been able > to do anything in the house at all. It's a mess. So... I'm working off a > nice enough Toshiba laptop (5 year old Core 2 Duo) that can more or less > chug its way through processing with Photoshop CS5.1. > > Here are a few autumn color snaps from October. Despite the drought, we had > a lovely fall in Michigan: > > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/a-little-fall-color > > The biggest problem with this laptop is that a slight shift in the angle of > view changes the apparent brightness and gamma of the image, so I never feel > confident that the image is properly adjusted.... > > I also got a little good news about my book, The Story of Snow. The American > Meteorological Society has awarded it their 2013 Louis J Battan award as an > outstanding book in the atmospheric sciences. More here: > > http://www.storyofsnow.com > > And I also learned that the book is being translated into Chinese. Not sure > when the release date will be - this is in addition to the Japanese and > Korean editions. > > I hope everyone is doing well, especially folks on the east coast. I finally > put Thunderbird on this laptop and gave up on trying to read the list via > Charter's webmail, so might be able to keep up with the list a little > better. > > Mark > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
