Thorne's Thread

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Meow Gallery Test

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Learning How To Process Photos

I’ve been learning how to use Adobe Lightroom and other processing tools. Here are a few of the pictures that I’ve been working on. All of the original source photos were taken by me.

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Another Reboot

“I am the little acorn that becomes the oak!”

Trying to take this in a slightly different direction. I want to be able to better feature my photography and still have a place that I can write from time to time (hopefully a little more often…)

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“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”

Like many, 9/11 affected me in a lot of different ways. I’d had a recent connection with New York City, having spent an extended time there on business and found that it was a place I loved. The people were great, the food was amazing, the sights to see were everywhere. There is a reason why it has the nickname “The City That Never Sleeps.”

I’ve wanted to make a trip back for many years and could just never work it out. Recently, we realized that we had some unused airline tickets to use up so we booked a trip and made an extended weekend out of it. I knew that visiting the World Trade Center site and National 9/11 Memorial had to be on our agenda. I needed a few days after our visit to be able to put my thoughts together and share them because, frankly, the experience was far more overwhelming than I had anticipated.

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