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2003: The Year's Best  

I'm still sifting through the thousands of photos taken last year to come up with the final group, so consider this a work in progress...
. delta sunset red sky at morning Lone Gull morning has broken
. blue and gold . a g a v e Old St Hilary's Church
. . w i l d i r i s leaf of a different color stargzer lily
. m o n u m e n t f o o t w e a r s i g n a g e two towers
George . . apricot sunrise .
Rob Oele 14-Jan-2005 14:24
Real classy work here. I just discovered it, a little bit late I guess!
Lisa Feuer 15-Mar-2004 04:25
your work is amazing...please put more up.
Jal 12-Jan-2004 16:17
Karen,
You did it again in 2003. The collection is wonderful.
The artist in you really shows in a lot of these images.
All the Best for 2004!
Jal
Andrys Basten 12-Jan-2004 02:29
Karen, I love what you See when you shoot and then your style or approach to photo manipulation after that - the saturation and smoothing to create an almost dream-like feel to the scenes, very personal. Wondeful variety here too. Am very familiar with the bay area so I appreciate what you've done even more so!
Wendy O 09-Jan-2004 01:41
Everyone of these is fantastic! I love all the sepia IR's, and that iris is positively glowing. You have so many more great photos...how did you ever choose? Looking forward to more Karen-shots for 2004!
Karen Nichols 05-Jan-2004 16:15
Most all of my sunrise/sunset photos are shot underexposed (to retain color info) and then the curves/levels are adjusted in Photoshop. Any of the sepia-toned photos are shot with a hoya r72 IR filter, and the sepia tone added in photoshop. The panoramas here were all hand-stitched in Photoshop. The Holga and SX-70 photos are all just scans of the original prints, but I usually Pshop to increase the color saturation on the SX-70s and remove any problematic white smudges that occur during the manipulation. The egg photo and the "Blue and Gold" photo had some grain added in Pshop.
jennifer 04-Jan-2004 17:51


I am curious if these images are all photoshop manipulated,or perhaps another software? If not, which are among the 'not' list?

Thanks,

jennifer
Guest 02-Jan-2004 23:16
Very lovely gallery Karen. Can't wait to see your work in person.
A Reid 02-Jan-2004 19:41
I agree...all of those belong on your best list. Great work.
Zevs 02-Jan-2004 17:42
Fantastic collection Karen! Very beautiful shots! /Zevs
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