How I Edited My Best Photo of 2020 Using Photoshop

In this video I walk through my editing process for the image I posted on Instagram today. This was a difficult image to process because a portion of the image was badly underexposed. I really like how the final product turned out and hope you'll come along with me on the editing journey. I took this image back in January of 2020...you remember, back before a raging disease shut down the world. This is from Jockey's Ridge State Park in North Carolina. For this I was using the Canon EOS Rebel K2 camera and the basic 28-90 kit lens. This is my favorite image of the year for 2020.

Nine Hole Course Ranking

This started out as a Page but since I'm changing how those are set-up, I'm moving it to a regular post that I will update as I manage to play more nine hole courses.

Since I've played many nine hole courses lately, some of which have been very good, I'm doing a separate ranking of nine hole courses. For a book recently published giving a top 25 list for nine hole courses, click here. I don't agree with every ranking in the book, and I've spoke with the author about that. Anyway, here's my ranking.

1. Sweetens Cove (7)

2. Hooper (6)

3. Fundy (5)
4. Cascades (5)

5. Bellows Falls (5)

6. Skyway(4)

7. Kahuku (4)

8. Fenwick (4)

9. Tipton Oaks (Sand Greens) (3)

10. Hyatt Hills (3)
11. Midland CC (3)

12. Lambert's Point; NLE (3)

13. Northwoods (3)

14. Diablo Hills (3)

15. Green Acres (2)

16. Minerals (2)
17. Meadowbrook (1)

18. Fishhook (2)

19. Fletcher's Landing; NLE (1)

20. Pine Grove Springs; NLE (1)

21. Cantiague Park (1)

22. Galway (1)

Changing Directions

 When I started this blog, shockingly ten years ago, I started because I'd just been thrown off the GolfClubAtlas discussion forum because I posted too much. Strange, I thought forums were for posting. But I initially wanted to focus on how to make golf courses more affordable, looking at the blog address, I'm sure that's no surprise. However, since then I've diversified a bit. I started writing course reviews. I have a number of those although I haven't done one in a couple years. I've started a wrestling podcast. I've started a photography and backpacking YouTube page. With all that, I've ended up with a tremendous backlog of content. Course reviews for at least 10 or 15 really solid courses. Fifty podcast episodes. Thirteen photography and backpacking videos. So, starting this week, I'm going to be posting that back content. I'm not sure how much I will post, looking at both my older content and new content that I'll be putting out. But it's coming. I'll also be working on the website to have a dedicated home page and the pages tabs at the top will have listings for the content that's being published in the various categories. Thanks for the views and support since I started this page, it's much appreciated. I hope you'll continue to give support in all the categories I'm producing.