My 2 Best Friends

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4th, 2012

These are so pretty from the 4th last week that I could not choose just one. :-) Some are straight exposures of about 3 seconds or so, most have the focus changed during exposure to get the soft flower look. I love them all.

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Snow on Mary's Peak

I thought this an interesting cloud formation on top of Mary's Peak the other morning. The cloud is covering the snow covered peak but the snow is still showing itself. Snow alone is cool and the cloud makes it better. I do see this type of cloud hovering on other much taller mountains, not Mary's Peak.

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Steeped in Fog

A line of lumber cars is disappearing into the fog yesterday morning. I thought that could be an interesting image. As I was shooting it all looked very monochromatic so that is how I present it. This is actually an HDR image that I perhaps have over compensated on. Like an alternative view? Mouse over the image for a different version. (Mouse over tutorial at right.)



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Painted Geese

No, not a painting, but an image of geese over an outcropping of trees. It took a lot of patience to get this shot with the geese as the sky was mostly clear of birds though we could hear them in the distance. Fortunately for me (unfortunate for the geese) hunters scared them up from a few miles away and they flew over the wildlife refuge I was at.

The image has been heavily processed in Topaz Adjust and Photoshop. I had no idea of how I would process this image but thought it would be good to play with Topaz with. I'm still experimenting with that software and I really like what it can do.

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Power of 2 sources

We had a couple awesome sunrises this past week. I felt fortunate to record one.

I felt the contrast of man v.s. nature in this image with all the color was very moving.

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Moonset over Newport

Another view of the bridge after sunset with the moon. The moon has been tweaked slightly for clarity and, of course, this is an HDR image processed in Photoshop CS5. The original images shown below, shot with Pentax K-7 and 18-135 lens. (First shots with this lens and I love it! Great range.)

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Ya Got Summin' For Me?

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