Fujifilm recently had the 2019 Fujifilm Printlife Photo Exhibition & Sweepstakes contest of which I entered one of my prints.
I was honored to receive the following email from them.
Hi Mark,
On behalf of the entire Fujifilm Printlife team, we would like to thank you for submitting into the 2019 Fujifilm Printlife Photo Exhibition & Sweepstakes.
We are pleased to announce that you have a submission that has been sent to be printed and put on display at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal!*
You will be a part of this year’s incredible exhibit, showcasing 13,640 photos!*
We hope that you will join us October 16th through the 20th in Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall to see all of the amazing photos on display this year.
We are looking forward to seeing and meeting you at the event!
Thank You,
The Fujifilm Printlife Team
So if you are in the New York area from October 16th through the 20th and have a chance to stop by the Grand Central Terminal. Keep a look out for my image being displayed as part of this exhibit.
Here is my image to keep an eye out for. Note: in the exhibit, this image was cropped to fit the square format, the below image is the full image as taken
I belong to my local camera club, the Carroll County Camera Club, which is part of the Maryland Photography Alliance (MPA), an organization of the made up of many of the local camera clubs in here in Maryland. It’s a great club and we participate in several photography contests during the year. Be sure to see if there is a local camera club in your area. They are a great place for getting together with other photographers that have the same passion as you.
The Maryland Photography Alliance (MPA) recently held it’s 3rd annual photography contest. Although I didn’t win the prize level in any of the 3 categories that I entered, I was invited to exhibit one of my entrees as one of the top images of the competition.
The image that I was invited to display in this gallery is titled
Jesus in the Dome
The Statue of Jesus in the Billings Building of Johns Hopkins Hospital
So be sure to visit the Activity Center at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg from November 1 2019, through January 20, 2020, to see my work and the works of other members of MPA camera clubs. There wa some great images entered this year and I plan to go and check them all out.
This was taken with my Nikon D80, at ISO 200, 18mm focal length, 0.8 sec at F8.0. It is cropped a little as I had to lay my camera blindly on the floor and set it to take my 3 bracket exposures on a timer so everything wasn’t exactly lined up. It was edited in Aurora HDR 2018 and may have been touched up with Luminar.
I know I’ve been kinda absent from doing posts like I use to do, but I’ve been a little busier that I thought with a project I’ve been putting off for some time. What is that project you say.
Finally getting around to doing cleanup and merging all my photos into one location. I didn’t think it was going to be as big a job as it has been and I”m still not really finished. To my surprise I have many copies of files all over the place on different computers, spare hard rives, flash memory, etc.
I didn’t know how I was going to deal with all the duplicate images. Even though programs like lightroom have a duplicate photo not to import option I found that even though the image looked the same in some cases, the metadata was different and that is what lightroom seems to rely on as part of its determining if a photo is a duplicate. Another problem was that after using several different applications over time each had created a preview version which is a low resolution version of and image and I had to make sure I was only importing the full resolution image instead of just the preview.
One program that I found that was some help was Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro. It did an excellent job on helping me find duplicates of my non raw images. (jpeg, png, tiff, etc). So if you have a folder full of images that you thing contain duplicates I can recommend this program. Just note that it does not work with RAW files.
Here is the interface with some of my images where is found a duplicate and I choose the Auto Mark Option. Note the one’s in RED are the images marked and will be deleted.
After using this program I freed up almost a TB of space when you total up all the duplicate images that I removed.
Like I said earlier, I’ve been using various programs over time and what prompted me to start the cleanup is the fact that Apple’s Aperture software, which was my first real editor, will no longer work with the next release of the Mac OS (Catalina) so I needed to make sure I could access all my Aperture images in other programs before that happened.
I’m almost done and I hope to get back to editing more images, taking great fall images, and finding and showing you more interesting photography software and tools in the near future.
But as the Fall season is upon us and in some locations, the tree leaves are already at their peak, make sure to get out there as soon as you can before the season is over and get those great fall photos. It’s one of my favorite times of the year to photo.
