If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”—Stephen King

After several posts featuring images that I recovered from discs created by Kodak’s now defunct Photo CD system, I received several emails like this from readers as well as talented Denver photographer Matt Staver, wanting to know how I did it.

A Fiat Panda, it’s the best car in the world.—Luca Cordero di Montezemolo—former chairman of Ferrari

In 2018 I wrote a post entitled Tutorial: Correcting Underexposed Portraits and recently some people I met at Starbucks over a cup of tea asked if those techniques were still worth using. I think so but it’s always worth a second, fresh look.