My Sunday series on outdoor portraiture continues today with a portrait of Luciana. She is a talented mature model who I photographed several years ago at a group model shoot in Arizona

I have always been obsessive about book authors. For example, when in high school I discovered Sherlock Holmes and was compelled to read everything that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the famous detective.

“You mean you can’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.”
“Nobody asked your opinion,” said Alice.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

No man is really dead unless he breaks faith with the future, and no man is really alive unless he accepts his responsibility to it.—from the 1943 film, A Guy Called Joe, starring Spenser Tracy

Digital noise has many causes and I’ve written here about all of them. While there are many reason for seeing noise in your images—and it’s possible it may not bother you—no noise reduction software that I’ve tried, so far, is perfect.