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  • Moon in the First Quarter

    Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
    July 24, 2015
  • Fountain and Gardens, Highland Park

    The fountain and formal gardens in Highland Park, seen from the stairs to the reservoir. Beyond is the grand entrance to the park, with Giuseppe Moretti’s “Welcome” group.

    Camera: Canon PowerShot S45.
    July 24, 2015
  • Welcome Sculptures by Giuseppe Moretti at the Highland Avenue Entrance to Highland Park

     

    One of Pittsburgh’s two most famous and most prolific sculptors (the other being Frank Vittor), Giuseppe Moretti decorated the entrances to Highland Park with extraordinary bronzes. Note that these two opposite figures are matching but entirely different: Moretti sculpted them from two different models and posed them differently, thus making literally twice as much work for himself as an ordinary sculptor would.

    July 22, 2015
  • In the Two-Color Forest

    OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

    Another experiment with limited color. Old Pa Pitt enjoys all kinds of photographic experiments, but in this case he has a particular reason for presenting this picture this way: it was a photograph that could not be easily rescued in full color.

    You may see the original color photo below if you really want to see it. Father Pitt will draw back the curtain for a moment and reveal the insignificant man with the levers and switches.

    In spite of much manipulation, including a gradient filter applied in the GIMP, the highlights are still bleached out completely, making it look like a picture from a cheap cell phone rather than Pa Pitt’s treasured Olympus E-20n.

    Full-color image. The upper part was darkened with a gradient filter, but—yech.
    Full-color image. The upper part was darkened with a gradient filter, but the highlights are still blasted into pure white.

    Reducing the saturation made it look more artificial without making it look more attractive.

    Reducing the saturation just made the picture look a bit unhealthy.
    Reducing the saturation just made the picture look a bit unhealthy.

    But somehow imitation two-strip Technicolor made an attractive image. In the words of Michelangelo, go figure.

    July 19, 2015
  • Three PNC Plaza

    An architectural rendering of the first of the new wave of “green” skyscrapers in Pittsburgh. In spite of its modest dimensions, it was the largest building put up downtown in many years, and kicked off what will probably be remembered as the third downtown Renaissance.

    July 19, 2015
  • Dragonfly

    KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

    A dragonfly rests briefly before heading out on another hunting expedition.

    Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
    July 18, 2015
  • Mushrooms from Here and There

    KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

    Mushrooms come in all colors, shapes, and sizes, and old Pa Pitt’s visitors seem to enjoy looking at them. For his part, Father Pitt enjoys finding them, so here are a few more pictures.

    Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.

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    KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

    KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

    July 18, 2015
  • St. Peter’s Parochial Schools, South Side

    Like almost every other school on the South Side, this one has been turned into apartments.

    July 18, 2015
  • Frog

    KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERAThis frog in the pond at the Homewood Cemetery is looking at us, and knows we are looking at it.

    Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.

    KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

    July 17, 2015
  • Shelf Fungus

    OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

    For no very good reason, Father Pitt decided to see what this picture of a log covered with little bracket fungi would look like if it had been printed with one of the limited-color processes sometimes used for books of popular science in the 1930s. There is actually a plugin for the GIMP that imitates two-color Technicolor, which suited his purposes well enough. What do you think? Would this not have made an admirable illustration in The Child’s Book of Wonders of the Fungus World?

    Camera: Olympus E-20n.
    July 17, 2015
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