At 5:00 Sunday afternoon, December 18, 2011, the lights at Bentleyville were turned on. Half an hour later, the Paul R. Tregurtha came by to say hello on her way out the door with a Christmas present for Detroit Edison, 64,000 tons of coal. If it is bad to get a lump of coal in your stocking, what happens when you get 64,000 tons of it?
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Bentleyville, 2010, is a great place to catch the Christmas spirit, to say nothing of taking some interesting pictures with your camera, phone or whatever you have in your pocket. Above, you see a picture 
I took of the Bentleyville version of Duluth’s Aerial Lift Bridge with an ore carrier about to go under. I don’t usually talk much about Photoshop; it has become a bad verb, but it showed me something about the pictures I took over there. In the top picture, it is very hard to see that the real Lift Bridge is just to the left of the Christmas ‘tree.’ I didn’t until I used the
shadow/highlight tool in Photoshop. That tool magically found the real Lift Bridge, or quite literally brought the real bridge out of the shadows. So it is hard to say Photoshop changed reality; in this case, it found a little more reality.) 
But at the expense of messing up the nice black sky. Then I closed in on the bridge and found that my camera saw something I did not see, and I still don’t know exactly what that is. 
These pictures were taken with a 1/3rd second exposure. If I had caught the bridge in motion, I assume the picture would be blurry. Does the camera have a memory of what it had seen just seconds or less before; I have no idea.
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