Billboard Tower

Waterbury, Connecticut

When they've run the elevated interstate highway right through the heart of the city, you get elevated billboards, too.

SPORTS AUTHORITY

Waterbury, Connecticut

One of three large stores in this shopping center just south of the middle of the city. It's been empty for about a year now. Forlorn looking on a cold early winter morning.

White Memorial in the Rain

Litchfield, Connecticut

A walk around White Memorial Conservation Center on a rainy November Sunday afternoon.

Printer/CMS Issues

Litchfield, Connecticut

This morning I wanted to make a few small color prints from my recent pictures at White Memorial. I found that we're far enough into winter that weeks of very low humidity have made the heavy roll paper in my HP Z3200 too stiff to feed properly. Annoying, but there's no way I can get the printing area up to 40-50% Rh until Spring.

So I got out some Canson baryta letter size paper and prepped the files for nine inch wide prints from my Epson 3880. The first print was awful—dark and desaturated, like double or broken color management. I checked everything and all was set up correctly with the manufacturer's ICC profile for the baryta paper and the 3880. So I tried a print with CMS turned off, using the print driver's color management. This usually works quite well, though not as well as a good ICC profile. The print was perfectly OK.

So I tried two other papers using their supplied ICC profiles, and not only were the results bad, they looked just like the Canson results. I realized that I hadn't printed color on the 3880 in many months, and both the Mac OS and Photoshop have had major upgrades in the meantime. I'd used the printer to make digital negatives, but I do that with print driver management so hadn't had any problems.

Clearly CMS was broken and profiles that had worked very well in the past were useless. So I went to the Epson site to see if I could find any discussion of this problem, but first I looked up support for the 3880 printer and found that there was a brand new print driver, uploaded just two days ago. Downloaded and installed it, printed the file on Canson using Photoshop management and the result was excellent, a little better than the results with printer management, as usual.

So, problem solved for the 3880. I don't know if the problem affects newer Epson models like the P800, but if anyone is getting strange results using Photoshop color management and ICC profiles with an Epson printer be sure to check that you have the latest print driver installed.

IVY

New York, New York

Calling building maintenance...

Still More City Trees

New York, New York

Last of them for now.

More City Trees and Cars

New York, New York

Another City Trees and Cars

New York, New York

City Trees with Cars

New York, New York

City Tree

New Haven, Connecticut

Crosswalk

New Haven, Connecticut

LIVE

New Haven, Connecticut

Infrastructure

New Haven, Connecticut

The municipal parking lot right downtown. It's still in use.

Dunce Hydrant

New Haven, Connecticut

Front Yards

New Haven, Connecticut

More City Trees

New Haven, Connecticut

City Trees

New Haven, Connecticut

NATASHA

New York, New York

Around the Town

Thomaston, Connecticut

Small window flag.

Along the west bank of the Naugatuck River.

Contrails

Winsted, Connecticut

It Takes Courage

Thomaston, Connecticut

There's a lot that's weird about this billboard. Just one item is that I don't think recreational sky diving is any way to save money. Plus, trying to go to the website takes you to a different one that begins with, "Feedthepig.org is no longer available, but 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy will provide you with many of the same free personal finance resources."

The Potato Chip

New York, New York

detail

Autumn City Trees and Fences

Torrington, Connecticut

White Buildings with Weeds

Winsted, Connecticut