Bill Barber

Alicante Spain

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This time last year I was on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Allure of the Seas. On October 28th we made portcall in Alicante, Spain. Alicante is a port city on Spain’s southeastern Costa Blanca, and the capital of the Alicante province. Its old town, Barrio de la Santa Cruz, has narrow streets, colored houses … Read more

“B” is for …..

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BEER!!!! Beer was the first alcoholic beverage known to civilization, however, who drank the first beer is unknown. Historians theorize that humankind’s fondness for beer and other alcoholic beverages was a factor in our evolution away from a society of nomadic hunters and gathers into an agrarian society that would settle down to grow crops … Read more

“E” is for ……

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ENHANCED! Who doesn’t like to take a photo and make it better? Back when digital photography was in its infancy, a huge debate raged about photographs being “enhanced”. Some well known photographers even went as far as to proclaim that digitally enhanced photos were the work of the Devil himself! Never mind the fast that … Read more

Sabattier Effect

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Here is a modern version of an old effect – The Sabattier Effect.  Sabattier was a French photographer who, in 1862, accidentally turned on the light while developing film and got some strange and unpredictable effects. Lots of people have experimented with the effect and one variation of it is called solarization. Photoshop and Photoshop … Read more