Thursday, Jan 28, 2026

[Dave]

MFI,

Unimaginable and brutal heat.

And my best wishes to your wife for the fastest possible recovery.

Thanks Rich. But credit for the flowers goes to Mother Nature. I did need to put a lot of work into the image, though. That's because the red petals and the green leaves were about the same value and this made the photo initially lacking in contrast (which seems to be a common problem photo has primarily reds and greens) as can be seen in a straight conversion to grayscale...

   

So I had to tweak both brightness and value contrast in selected areas, sort of like this second grayscale conversion indicates...