Clean images

Fleur and Griffin watching big screen TV (front window)

We have a lot of jazz CDs. Maybe a hundred? Maybe more? I haven’t counted. Over the last couple weeks, we’ve been playing them on our main hi-fi stereo system, at least one a day, sometimes three or four or more. Lots of great music! Most of our collection is from the bebop and hard bop eras, I reckon. But there’s also some big band and some west coast smooth and some free/out/improv and a few other subgenres (e.g. “gypsy”). Also I’d count our ragtime albums, since that genre was an immediate precursor to jazz. After we get through the jazz CDs, maybe we’ll go through the jazz vinyl albums, of which there are also quite a few. Also: jazz cassettes. But many of those are dubs of what we have on CDs and records. Not all, though.

Sunny cold weather is on hand for the next few days. Good opportunity to get out and hike without worrying about rain and mud. Photography should be good, too! I need to clean the sensor on my G95. Looking at images from last Thursday’s Fern Ridge Reservoir hike, with “Dehaze” dialed up on open sky shots, I noted many little blurry blobs, which result from dust specks on the surface of the digital sensor. Ugh. I thought I’d got them blown off with the air puffer. Nope. Need to use the cleaning solution and one of the little wiper blades that came with the sensor cleaning kit I bought a few months ago. I always get nervous doing that. The sensor is a very crucial and sensitive part of a digital camera. But I’ve done it with success before. It’ll be fine, and I’ll have clean images again.