YAPJ (pronounced YAP-jay) is Yet Another Photography Journal.

What value is the work one goes through to produce photographs—and with film, it’s a lot—if one doesn’t share them? That’s what this YAPJ amounts to, since I’m just starting a journey into photography–both film and digital.

It’s also a motivation to not stop at pressing the shutter button–and developing negatives that end up in a notebook—or archiving files in folders buried in different hard drives and in the cloud. And, finally, it’s a chance to hear from anyone who happens across this YAPJ to comment and advise on what else I might consider in processing. So, here are a few images I used to practice in Lightroom.

This looked inviting, but it was on private property. The image compare block in WordPress lets you see the before and after processing.

I discovered the look of square format by studying Adrian Vila’s images at aows.co and his YouTube channel. Square format creates a perspective useful to focus the image subject(s) in some settings, although these cropped images don’t look very square here (but they are).

Before (top); After (bottom).

I live near a wildlife refuge. In the winter, it’s part of the migratory flyway for lots of Cackling Goose and Canada Goose. These are the Cackling Goose.

Before (top); After (bottom).