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2018 in Review, Favorites, and Seasons Greetings

Posted on December 17, 2018, 11:36 pm, by QT Luong, under Uncategorized.
In 2018, I spent less time in the national parks, the sole focus of my efforts for many years, and more time in other public lands. Those include the national monuments, some of which have been under the most serious threats in our history, as illustrated by the evisceration of two of the largest and […]
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Quick Tip: Change Aspect Ratio to Preserve Composition

Posted on December 10, 2018, 11:04 pm, by QT Luong, under Techniques.
Amongst the many new controls brought by digital processing, one of the simplest, and most often overlooked, is the possibility to change an image’s aspect ratio. One could do a lot of changes in the darkroom, but altering the aspect ratio by optical means was very difficult. Why would someone want to do that? When […]
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Yucca House: the Worst National Monument?

Posted on December 3, 2018, 8:14 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
This year, I’ve written about quite a few national monuments. Some of them are larger and, in my opinion, more interesting than some national parks. However, they form a disparate collection with a huge range of resources, and Yucca House National Monument is a case in point. Yucca House was first described in F. V. […]
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