Top photos of 2020
According to Flickr “favorites” these were my top photos of 2020. Not all of the photos were taken in 2020 (in fact, I took very few photos in 2020); rather, these are the photos most “favorited” in 2020.
For 2019, click here.
TravelJapanBlog.com - Japan (07, 09-10, 13), Denmark (08, 11, 16-19, 21, 24), Korea (13), Poland (21), Mexico (14, 15, 19, 26), Iceland (17, 19), Hawaii (14, 17, 22), Czech Republic (16, 17, 19, 21)
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Topaz Adjust AI
Without Topaz Adjust AI and DeNoise AI
Once upon a time, about eight and half years ago, I didn’t shoot in RAW; I only saved my shots in jpg format. Alas, those photos are far more difficult to process in terms of getting them to look like what the scene originally looked like. The above, 11-photo photomerge is one such example. In Photoshop I wasn’t able to get the final panorama to look like the brilliance of the sunset from that one evening in New York back in 2012. Because I shot in jpg, the details were muddy and not recoverable (in Photoshop at least).
I downloaded Topaz Labs’ Adjust AI to see if it could do better. Adjust AI comes with a bunch of filters, none of which I liked. However, the adjustments for highlights, colors, shadows, etc. are far more powerful and customizable in manual mode than what you see in Photoshop, and I was able to bring the scene back to something more closely resembling what I saw with my naked eye that evening. The results are below.
With Topaz Adjust AI and DeNoise AI
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Metal Monday
@COPENHELL #copenhell
Favorite albums of 2020
In no particular order:
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning
Mora Prokaza – By Chance
Myrkur – Folkesange
…And Oceans – Cosmic World Mother
Oranssi Pazuzu’s Jun-His @ 2017 Roskilde Festival
Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi
Warbringer – Weapons of Tomorrow
Carcass – Despicable EP
Sylent Storm – The Fire Never Dies
Vader – Solitude in Madness
Green Carnation – Leaves of Yesteryear
Uada – Djinn
Enslaved – Utgard
Troy Sanders of Mastodon
Mastodon – Medium Rarities
Auðn – Vökudraumsins Fangi
Deftones – Ohms
Finntroll – Vredesvävd
Sodom – Genesis XIX
Redwood Hill – Ender
Dark Tranquillity @ 2019 Gefle Metal Festival
Dark Tranquillity – Moment
Afsky – Ofte Jeg Drømmer Mig Død
Death Angel – Under Pressure EP
And a few from 2019 that I wasn’t familiar enough with to make the 2019 list…
Cloak – The Burning Dawn
Heilung @ 2019 Copenhell
Heilung – Futha
Possessed – Revelations of Oblivion
Exulansis – Sequestered Sympathy
