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June – Kester Cottage

How I did it - Celebrating its 100th anniversary, my adopted town of Pompano Beach is holding monthly art exhibits at local community centers.  I have started participating.  One of the assignments is historical buildings in town.  Not much left, especially for this former New Yorker who frequently photographed colonial sites in myriad points Northeast.  In May, I visited Kester Cottages, which house the local Historical Society.  Only two remain of these originally 100 very tiny, sturdily constructed buildings built and rented cheaply by a philanthropic resident in the 1920s to encourage tourism.  (His vision took!) 

 

I decided to go for an impressionistic interpretation of a generally uninteresting building.  Taken mid-afternoon at ISO 200 using a slight wide angle (43mm) at aperture priority F10,  1/80.  In Elements 4 chose "liquefy" within the distort filter set to smudge the colorful foliage and make the static clapboard siding lines more interesting.  Boosted saturation slightly.

 

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Carol Ann Rogus, FPSA- (crogus@bellsouth.net)

I bought my first SLR (Pentax) in 1972, progressed to Canon 20 years later, and Canon digital as of February 2006.  Joined my first camera club in 1992, PSA in 1993, and have been engaged in the amateur photography whirlwind ever since with clubs, councils, chapters, and PSA.  Served as VP and President of my New York City club, Cosmopolitan Chapter Chair, Region Director, PSA Public Relations VP for three terms, originator and chair of the 2004 Cosmopolitan Chapter PT Exhibition, and most recently 2006 PSA PT Exhibition Chair.  A native New Yorker, I moved permanently to Southeast Florida in July 2005, a great idea whose time had come!  Traded my view of downtown Manhattan (as you may know, including the World Trade Center and 9/11) for white ibis periodically breakfasting on my lawn. I now serve on the boards of both the Everglades Chapter and my camera club.  Having belonged to a couple of slide study groups a number of years ago, I realize how fabulous they are in terms of both meeting fellow enthusiasts and teaching one to be a better photographer.  Of course, with digital, a new element is being added.  One more point:  I  absolutely LOVE both shooting digital and working in Elements 4.