Blog Post #6300 Features Creatures

It's spring so I thought I'd lead with a courtship photo. Or perhaps Mr. Canada Goose is just being territorial. What do you think?

The black and white photo shows a different type of goose. These come ashore into my yard every day, and I can count on at least one to spread his wings right after he makes it out of the lake.

These are probably domestic geese who escaped from a farm and now live free on the community lake.

As the title of this post suggests, this blog reached another milestone: 6,300 posts. (I started blogging in 2005.) In honor of this rather impressive number of posts, I thought I'd give you a glimpse of my photo workflow.

I use Adobe Bridge to name pictures. I actually described this process eight years ago in a post called Notes on Naming Files.  (Wow, that long ago!) Anyway, once the pictures are in a folder for the current month, I assign them a star rating using the Command key and a number.  One star means its a usable photo, two stars is better, three is superior. Four stars means I've selected the photo and processed it.  Oh, and if a photo is awful, I delete it.

The screen print shows what Bridge looks like on my monitor. That's part of my collection for March 2018 called 4Mar2018.

Here's one of the deer photos from above.  I took it by the entrance to Shenandoah National Park. The next image is from the same group but I cropped it rather drastically so that you can see the second deer.

For years, I would double-click a picture in Bridge and it opened in Photoshop. But when I changed computers last year, I wasn't able to get Photoshop to transfer over. Instead of calling Adobe and getting assistance, I downloaded a free program from Movavi to edit photos. I liked it so I'm still using it. I miss working in layers though.

After I process the photo I save it in a different folder for the current month. 

Another picture from last month is this house finch. Soon I won't have so many bird photos to post because I've stopped feeding them because bears roam through our neighborhood in April. Once they find a source of food, they not only eat it but they remember the location and come back again.

The proud-looking bird in a bush is probably a song sparrow.

The squirrels will probably be disappointed that I'm not putting out bird seed, but they'll survive.

Sharing with Saturday Critters and I'd Rather Be Birdin'.

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