Dreamy, Creamy, Part Two; Maui, 2016
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. So it is a fair question whether processing an image to emphasize something (whether hue, saturation, grain, or any number of other things) is valid; and it is potentially even more questionable whether an image should be distorted or modified to depict something the photographer did not see when the shutter fired. (Photojournalism aside, of course; no PJ would be allowed to do those things.) That said, we seem to be a long way from requiring photographic purity, given the ubiquity of Photoshop and other powerful editing tools. Event photographers think nothing of inserting or replacing a head. Would the great photographers have manipulated images to that extent if they had been able? The tools they had were relatively crude, but all thought nothing of altering film development times and dodging and burning during printing.
So here are a few more dreamy, creamy images, and all of this batch were manipulated in post-processing to some degree.
Maui sugar mill, in its final months
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After a lifetime of mainly expressing myself with words, my postings here will mainly rely on images. They will speak for themselves to some extent, but I'll usually add a few comments of explanation. I've taken photographs for decades, since the 1950's, inspired in part by my father's photographic skill. Four years of photo assignments and quality darkroom time eventually gave way to decades of casual and family picture-taking. I re-immersed myself when I left film and turned to digital.