Yes, please, do something good and support THIS PETITION to save the magnificent Google NIK Collection of photography tools!

One a commercial software that cost about 500$ and was well worth it, it was acquired by Google in 2012. They did a great job in bringing down the price to little more than 100$. Thanks Google.

Then they did still better and gave away the whole package for FREE!

That really a very noteworthy move. BUT!

There’s a BUT, and a big one! Google decided to stop supporting NIK Collection and it will either disappear or become incompatible with future versions of Lightroom or the various OS’s.

Please help us save this software, make Google see reason and divert a small amount of their considerable power to update NIK Collection!

What better way to convert photos to black and white than using Silver Efex? Just for this one it would be worth saving it.

Thanks for clicking and adding your name to the petition!

Definitely some of my best photos happen early in the morning, when I go to work. Before 7 the city is still quiet, the light is great and sometimes all comes together to make a photograph I want to share.

Of course it’s nearly summer  now and even before 7 a.m. the sun is up and it’s quite bright. No more moody shop window shots now.

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The dark side has called out to me for a long time. It has lured me in sometimes and I always resisted… but I think this time I’m gone!

What dark side you ask?

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I just state this bluntly.

I like the look of it more than color, and not because it’s supposed to be ‘artsy’. I have just come to see the world in black and white.

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…I don’t like developing color film!

Some time ago I bought a C41 development kit and a handful of cheap color film (Fuji Superia 200) and those last weeks / months, I have shot all but one of them. I used my Olympus Trip 35, the XA2 and even the now gone Canon A-1 with those films.

And I have developed them! These are the results fresh out of the Olympus Trip 35: Continue reading →

It’s been 4 years now that I have returned to film photography. At first not full time, but later increasingly so.

What brought me back to it? Simple answer, the Fuji X100! Continue reading →

Strange times….

Strange views….

Wtf….