Rocco Galatioto, nice photos and good food

This is my lovely wife, Marcy back in 1975 when she was pregnant with our first child, Josef. It was shot at the camera's and my limits. Hand held wide open at F  3.5 and at 1/15th of a second on Tri-X professional 220 that had an ASA 0f 320. It was developed with D-76 full strength and printed on Kodak Kodabromide paper in the M surface. I just love this shot.

Photoshop CS6 Beta is Available Now Adobe's latest edition of Photoshop is well on the way to being released and has now entered open beta, which means that anyone who wants to download a not-quite-complete version of the software can do so for free. You'll only get to use it for a limited time, but a sneak peek at the latest and greatest from Adobe - as well as some free access to a powerful photo editing tool - is a pretty good setup. Big additions to the latest version of Photoshop include Content-Aware Patch and Content-Aware Move, both of which build on the Content-Aware Fill introduced in CS5. Adobe also boasts a brand new graphics engine that brings quicker "near-instant" results when using different editing tools and effects. Go to ADOBE's site for the trial download.

PENTAX,  a very popular brand in the days of SLR's, is now once again a player in the major field of photography. The Pentax 645 is what is known as a medium format camera. This term is really misleading since in the digital age this should be known as large format. In view of the fact that there has been so much improvement in sensors and the old 24X36mm or old 35 mm format and it has now reached the 40 mega pixel range, the future of medium format digital is rather tenuous. Nevertheless, these cameras have a great appeal for studio use. So this beauty of a lens should please it's fans. smc PENTAX-DA645 25mm F4AL [IF] SDM AW

Just a few more, patience. BTW, the lens used was the Sigma 50 mm f 2.8 macro. It's sort of liberating to use a fixed focal length lens. Try it. For many of you it's a novelty. This should brighten your Friday

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, of course; where I found this new small magnolia tree  whose flowers are of  the most unusual color, a wonderful red unlike any other magnolia I have ever seen. I just want to share this so it may brighten your Thursday.

  A great photo shot by my wife Marcy. She creates great shots using the G-9. But the camera doesn't take the photo, the photographer does. I am very proud of her abilities. I just hope that she used her camera more often. I just love this photo.

This camellia plant in my backyard is my pride and joy, This year it bloomed more precociously than usual. I just love it. They aren't great photos but I just want to share them.

My first PC came with a 40 MB hard drive that was huge at the time. We now have 2 tetra bytes portable hard drives that fit one's pocket. WD ® SHIPS FIRST 2 TB PORTABLE HARD DRIVE WITH NEXT-GEN MY PASSPORT ® World’s Top-Selling External Storage Solution Gets Capacity Boost, Premium New Design, Improved Signature Features of Security and Automatic Backup IRVINE, Calif. – Mar. 20, 2012 – Western Digital ® (NYSE: WDC) today announced the next generation of its top-selling My Passport ® line of portable hard drives, offering consumers a  fresh new enclosure design and the first-ever 2 TB capacity in a portable drive. Now available in five popular colors: white, black, silver, blue, and red, with a range of capacities beginning from 500 GB, the new sleeker My Passport portable drives offer digital consumers an appealing array of storage options that reflect their personal style. Additionally, the new My Passport drives offer WD SmartWare ™ automatic backup software a...

This budding guitarist is also a participant of the Walter K Hoerning fund. His name is Nahiem Mathurin.

Capture one post production software is considered by many as the holy grail of raw converters. The new version has  a lower  price and this is great news. Phase One Makes Superior Image Quality More Accessible Go to Phase One's  updated website, from which you can now download 60-day trials of its Capture One software. The company Launches New Web Site; Lowers Price of Capture One and Increases Its Trial Period to 60 days. COPENHAGEN, March 17, 2012 — Phase One, the world’s leading pro photography equipment provider, today launched a new web site dedicated to the user experience of its customers and new visitors. The site’s greatly improved usability offers easier access to information and tools to help professionals and other discerning photographers achieve the highest image quality results. As part of this new user-experience focus, Phase One has extended the trial period for its Capture One 6 raw converter and photo editing software from 30 to 60 days ...

The typical sfingi di San Giuseppe that are ideal for those afflicted with hypoglycemia.

This is Matthew Woodcock, a student taking advantage of the enrichment programs provided by the Walter K Hoerning Fund. This organization provides funds for talented and worthy African American Boys.  The recipients must  keep high academic standards, Matthew has been with the program for many years and has settled on the dance as his area of interest. From what he shows. he is impressively talented and appears to have a  bright future has a  professional dancer.

One of my first digital photos shot way back in September, 2000.