This past Monday, I had the opportunity to sing at a Rosh Hashanah service down at Heritage Park in Old Town San Diego, California. While setting up chairs in the second level of the Jewish temple at the park, I came across two of these fantastic old reed organs. You could tell they were worn down and old, but they still played fine. The lighting up there was fantastic due to the setting sun and a series of small circular stained-glass windows, so I took as many pictures as I could. In the post-processing stage, I realized that I could emphasize the level of deterioration in the organ’s finish by (once again) running the image through a single-file HDR plugin. The resulting image, though grainy, really brings out the age of this beautiful instrument. I only wish I had snooped around a little more and found a manufacture date on one of these organs.