We Walked Around Downtown

After we ate, we walked around downtown Vero and looked in windows. We saw no other pedestrians. No surprise. Hot night, and even at seven the sun was still beating down.

More Vero Travelog

More pictures, mostly pseudo HDR, from fairly close to home. Too damn hot around here for me to want to roam far and wide on a bicycle. Okay, all pseudo HDR.

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A New Technology

Digital photography lends itself well to image processing methods unavailable with the old film, developer, and what not process of making pictures. One of the tricks digital does really well is jamming a wide scene brightness range into a single image. In black and white something called the "zone system" allowed one to extend the range of tones captured by film into an image printed on paper. Digital can do something trickier when a wide brightness range is bracketed and then smooshed together to make the final pic. Good articles about High Dynamic Range (HDR) all over the place. These are pix done in approximate fashion from camera-output jpeg.

Saturday And Sunday

Saturday looking north near Sebastian Inlet

And Sunday in south Vero

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Canal And Taylor Creek

I continue to look around at and try to see how water is managed only a few feet above sea level. And an area I'd been meaning to look at more closely is a tiny bit upstream on Taylor Creek in Fort Pierce. The last time I was going to do some exploring in this area cops had all the roads in and out blocked and a cop-o-chopter in the air. Never did find out why, but I also did not try to find out very hard. Today worked out better. Spillway where the canal joins the creek. And from farther down stream as well.

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