When I started going back through my photos from 2006, my first thought was “gee, this isn’t going to be as interesting as 2005.”  Not so, I think.  We maybe didn’t travel to Alaska, but we still managed to haul ourselves to some pretty interesting places!

 

 

 

 

 

It was in 2006 that I sold my Mamiya 7 film camera and bought the 5D.  A lot of these photos were taken with the 20D, and a few of them were taken with my Powershot G5!  I need to dig that camera out of the closet and play around with it.  It was a pretty nice camera and would a bit “retro” to be carrying around now!  A 12 year old digital camera is pretty Old School, just like me. 😉

 

One of the things that I had forgotten about with the 5D was the fact that that big old sensor tended to attract a lot of dust.  And since I was typically shooting landscapes on a tripod I tended to use pretty small apertures.  I didn’t know what a self-cleaning sensor would be like just a few years later, but these photos have and had a lot of cloning done.  Thank goodness for the dust removal tool in Lightroom!

 

 

 

 

 

This is another case where the newer process version in Lightroom really brings out the goodness in some of these old photos.  I’m working on a before & after post to show some examples, but between the differences in the software and my own changing personal taste (me, taste?) there is quite a difference in some of these.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On to 2007…stay tuned!