I didn't take many pictures on Friday - I was getting ready for the MS150, which was this weekend. I did take a few at the County Fairgrounds after giving the safety lecture for the event (before going to my gracious teammates' house to stay the night less than a half-mile away).

I did some monochrome processing on this, and as you can see, it resulted in signifcant posterization. Looks pretty awful, but in a sort of robo-painterly way - like some sort of mechanized AI version of a pretty evening sky.

Anyway, my real thought here is - will we ever see this sort of thing as aesthetically pleasing? A lot of people are into grain, lens flares continue to have a following, vaseline-slicked filters have been around for about a hundred years, and some people make creative use of lens flaws and light leaks in cheap russian cameras. Will we ever, in the era of 24-bit raw image files, long for the good old days of 2007 when we could get results like this without "faking it"?

Maybe there's already been an art-school posterization fad and I missed it. I did duo-tone this image though (first non-monochrome image of Monochrome August)