View attachment 86251 It occurs to me that not everybody knows that constant meaningless and costly upgrades in software have ruined forever my joy in presenting top-notch photographs of my trees here. Apple, Adobe and Photomatrix have conspired to ensure that - without enormous outlays of money and time - my bonsai postings here are no better than the average teenage narcissist posting endless selfies to endless social media sites. I've become used to holding myself to a very much higher standard than that in posting photos on BNut, but have finally accepted the fact that mediocrity reigns, and that exceptionalism is merely another politically incorrect micro aggression against the masses.
Hence, I am reduced and resigned (until they ship me off to a re-education camp somewhere in the gulag) to posting shitty-but-acceptable-to-the-proletariate photos, cranked out with boredom for public consumption from the preprocessing app, iPhoto.
The last one I cranked out for this tree did not suit me very well at all, especially in term of such subtleties as exposure, contrast, definition, sharpness and such, so I thought I'd sign up for some little Mac-run "Fix." A cure? No. Palliative? Maybe a wee bit.
Most people won't even notice the difference, but I will.
Enjoy!