StayCation

We have decided this year to stick close to home this week. There's something to be said for staycation. I have been doing lots of reading and catching up cataloging and organizing my photo collection. Every day we try to see a sight close to home, and here in St. Louis there's lots to see. Yesterday afternoon we left home, not knowing exactly where we would end up. Then we ended up at the Arch. I've been going up in the Arch for 40 plus years. Then last year I don't know what happened, but I'll just say I'd rather not go up in the Arch anymore. I've always been afraid of heights anyway. But my son and wife don't mind the ride, so while they were up on the observation deck I stayed on firm ground and got some photos.

Which leads to what else I've been doing. As a very amateur photo hack I always shoot in JPEG. Then I've been reading articles about how you get much better control shooting RAW files, fiddling with them in a program like PS Elements and then converting to JPEG. I'm liking the results.