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Jim Hughes

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Posted on April 13, 2021April 14, 2025

The Nautilus Spiral

It’s an endlessly interesting shape, although not quite in the way generally believed.

Spiral Nautilus shell photograph
Prints available. Photo copyright: Jim Hughes
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Posted on March 30, 2021March 29, 2025

Sky Replacement: Go Big or Go Home

To my eye, it never really works: a photo of a landmark or landscape under a dull and lifeless sky, transfused with instant awesomeness via “AI Powered” sky replacement software. It’s like a bad hairpiece.

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Posted on March 18, 2021March 9, 2025

My 1x.com Experience

If you have aspirations as a “fine art” photographer, you know about 1x.com. In their own words, it’s “one of the world’s most exclusive art galleries” where “all photos… are selected by a team of professional gallery curators. ”

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Posted on February 22, 2021March 29, 2025

Start by giving up.

Sometimes I find the photo after I’ve just admitted failure and am on the way back to the car.

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Posted on January 21, 2021February 24, 2022

What Chuck Close said…

A self portrait by artist Chuck Close.
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  • Minneapolis and the Mississippi
  • Generative AI: Let’s Pull Back The Curtain
  • Out on the 3rd Avenue Bridge
  • AI and Christopher Columbus
  • Elgin Standard Time
  • Water Meets Ice
  • Bricks
  • Woodpecker Portrait Session
  • The Northern Flicker
  • The Downy Woodpecker
  • Crazy Ice On The Creek
  • Photography: What’s Left?
  • A Highway At Night
  • A Darker Minneapolis
  • Hover Flies: Pollinators In Disguise
  • On The Franklin Avenue Bridge
  • Stay Cool In The Skyways
  • In The Wind
  • The Rusty Patched bumble bee
  • A Hot Day Downtown
  • The Sleeping Queens
  • Dragonflies and Damselflies
  • Cycling Nowhere
  • How Big Is That Fish Eye, Really?
  • White Balance For Dummies – By A Dummy
  • Red-wings
  • Ride The Rails
  • The Great Blue Herons Are Back
  • The Cyclist
  • Street and Sky
  • Young Owls
  • Cardinals
  • The Perfect POD
  • Capture One and Lightroom: why I don’t like catalogs
  • SmugMug SEO and Google – An Epitaph
  • Birds In Winter
  • The Pergear 10mm Pancake Fisheye Lens
  • SmugMug: Where Photography Goes To Hide
  • Tuning Dials and Channel Knobs: Retro Tech
  • Why Does Duotoning Work?
  • ICC printer profiles: how does that work, exactly?
  • As Good As A Phone…?
  • Make Even More
  • An old Ford rusts peacefully in a farmer's field.A Ford’s Journey
  • Hummingbird Photography for Dummies
  • Smugmug and Google: The Taste of Failure
  • Protect your photos with an AIR GAP
  • Google Indexing: My Balloon Loses Air
  • Windows 10 Ransomware protection
  • Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge

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