Pirate Booty Display at City Festival Park - Jamestown, NC 9/10/2015

Another image from my trip to Jamestown on Sat.and the Pirate Festival. Again mixed lighting an issue.  There was really more pirate booty but I chose this crop when taking the image.  This means you do not get to see the small skeleton that was in the right hand corner.  I shot the image with Camera+ HDR but did not use flash because I felt that would be too harsh and not sure how the beads and chrome would have looked.  I used Touch Retouch to remove some stray beads and a line that was not part of the concrete base. Used clarify in native app but no other editing.  I did not want to take the time to see if I could use a mask in Snapseed to darken the drape area to the left in the image.

Pirate Day at Jam,estown, NC City Park Festival 9/19/2015

Yesterday there was a Pirate Day at City Lake Park, Jamestown, NC.  I wanted to see if there were some photo opportunities there. I went after 2 PM and stayed to watch the small cannons being fired off after 3PM.   I only got one image of a pirate with the iPhone because most of the images I took with a Nikon P600.   The lighting situation was not good as the pirates were often in a mixed lighting situration which is not handled well by the iPhone.  I also needed more border around his left elbow. Even this image if you look close has digital noise due to high ISO. It was diffiult to capture him because he was constantly pacing while talking.  I learned a lot about pirates. Some were dressed to the 9s in Pirate garb, others had the workman type garb that would do the grunt work while sailing. It might have worked better if I used fill in flash for this image, but just because you choose that mode, does not mean the flash is always goingt to go off.  Just for the record, I do not like taking images of people and have very little experience with street photography.  I do not have a telephoto zoom lens for my iPhone.  Shot in Camera+, edited in PSE 11.

Paw Paw - Forsythe Ag Center, W-S, NC

Saturday I went to the Forsythe Ag. Center to a Paw Paw Festival.         I learned a lot about them but I did not buy a plant. They had samples of ice cream, salsa, and a bread for tasting ...handouts. The taste is between a mango & a peach. Will not  keep long-- not in groc. stores.. Camera+ app. Edit: PSE 11 & Touch Retouch.  

Wire Wrapped Gem Display - Gem & Rock Festival GSO, NC 6/13/2015

At the Gem and Rock show on Sat.  There was one vendor who was demonstrating how to free form wrap stones to use as jewelry pendants.  Some had findings of silver plate but others had various colors of wire and different guages with a loop for the cord or chain.. The one with black wire was actually around petrified wood.  He gets the wire locally from craft stores but said Fire Mountain (online) was the best bargain for the bezels, jewelry findings, etc.  The vendor lives in Burlington, NC, and when my daughter comes we may try to see his shop.  He did not have any slabs of gems or rock for sale. He and his wife had recently been to AZ collecting rocks and gems.