The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: May 9th 2020

I’ve included this image in my previous post ‘Sketrick Island’ – but looking at it today in the Cocoon, I thought it was worth a little more work, probably because of the textures.

It’s not a macro shot!  This is an anchor chain, and it’s huge!  I imported it into Capture One and gave it a closer crop, and some extra presence and clarity, to accentuate the textures.  The shot was made with the Fujifilm X-T30, F=55mm, f/4 @ 1/250th sec on ISO250.

Coincidentally, while I was manipulating the image in Capture One, the Alexa device was playing Leonard Cohen singing his poem ‘Born in Chains!’  Cohen certainly is a wordsmith of the highest quality, – dissertations could (and probably have been) be written on the deeper meanings of his words.

Here’s ‘Born in Chains…‘ Continue reading The Lockdown Logs #39 →