Day 76: Lone on the Sea

2026-04-23Hello! I've been posting a lot of recent photos to the website this month, and I'm keeping the old ones just in case I'm not able to get out and about that day.I took this photo yesterday, out on the water in Raritan Bay. I'm not able to ID this lighthouse with confidence, but I'm pretty sure it's the Great Beds Light.I could talk about the several antics that I got up to that day, including a few silly games with a deck of cards (seriously, play Go Fish or Solitaire without shuffling the deck ever — it's hilarious), but I'd like to talk about my heavy editing process.Three versions of the same imageEvery time I publish a monochrome photo, you're seeing the result of heavy editing. It is stylized to emphasize texture and shading, not color. Other photos, even if they seem otherwise normal, will have the lens vignette and distortion reduced (or eliminated) through editing.Today's photo is recolored, because the original photo showed a dreary scene of rain and fog. That's…