Dear readers, sorry, it is taking me a little while to figure out this new platform. I deleted the Griffin entry before realizing that it had actually posted. Groan.

The contrast and color saturation is really very nice on this one.

What's actually interesting is viewing the images on different [quality] LCD screens. Here at work, my left screen is a 6-bit panel that does Truecolor through dithering, so you effectively have 18-bit color which is "good enough," but my right screen is an 8-bit panel that reproduces 24-bit color and yields a more accurate image but the JPEG compression (i.e. the gradient in the sky) becomes much more obvious.

BTW I liked the B&W griffen version better. The monochromatic view worked better in that case, and in my opinion, the blue sky through the car window served as too much of a distraction for the focus, which was on the statue.

Peter! Hello. My goodness it has been a long time, in person or electronically. Yeah, I will try to get the griffin post back up. For the black and white picture, I actually used the auto correct feature somewhere in the process, which sometimes is good sometimes is not. For this shot I likely should not have messed with it as much as I did. The original was pretty clean, and I think sharpening, then noise redusing (which may not have been necessary) may have added to the compression effects.

Still have to get together sometime, and I am planning on catching up on your music soon. And I see you have a new blog too.