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January 12, 2008

Lonely Horse-

April 25, 2008

Swinging Bridge at Tishomingo, Built in 1939 -

I shot this same bridge about a year ago, and have always liked the pic, but was never really satisfied with it...I'm happier now-

edit: the other shot.
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March 30, 2008

Roller Coaster-

Quick stop on the drive home....at midnight-
(I worked really hard on that caption, by the way)

October 17, 2008

Another mountain shot from Banff-

A little bit of a funny story with this pic...I was traveling very light on this trip...one camera, one lens...no tripod, no shutter release, no beanbag...I really wasn't expecting to take any night shots, but when I saw this, I couldn't resist.

This was taken just off a small dead end access road (almost no traffic) with a few parking spots to pull off and admire the scenery. Unfortunately, none offer a view in this direction, so I had to basically just park on the side of the road. And, not having a tripod or beanbag, I had to find something to prop the camera on...I'm not even going to go over the list of items that I tried, but I finally settled on a spare shoe from my suitcase---It actually held the camera pretty well... To make matters worse, I couldn't find anywhere to put the camera that would give me a view close to this... I ended up having to back the car up a little and put the camera (in its shoe) on the roof of the car---again, it actually worked pretty well. It was a tad embarrassing, but only two cars drove by...

Unfortunately, the shoe isn't sturdy enough to hold the camera while I press the shutter release, so I have to resort to the 10 second timer. That really drug things out....and it wasn't exactly what you'd call warm.

I don't think I'll travel quite as light next time...

Not a lot of post on this shot--it's an HDR merge of two shots, trying to bring the moon back in a little, but it didn't really work...cropped a bit off the bottom, and a high pass filter blended to bring out some detail in the mountains. The exposure is pretty close to how it came out of the camera.

November 1, 2007

IMG_3935b Log Cabin in the Fall Colors

A lovely (but small) log cabin covered in orange.

April 24, 2008

The Tennessee River and the Natchez Trace-

And, we had a little more light for tonight's game...enough for an alternate pic- Check out the tongue-

May 10, 2008

A Tree Swallow....Making a grocery run-

post:
-rotated 2 deg
-crop ~20%
-unsharp mask 100/5/10
-auto levels

August 1, 2008

Finally processing the last of my costal GA pics...been a busy few months... This is the Sidney Lanier Bridge just outside of Brunswick, lit by the sun setting off to the left-

Post:
...lost track on this one, but the there were some shadow/highlight adjustments and a diffuse glow filter on the sky-

September 2, 2009

A sunset, from above.
Nearly SOOC, cropped 3:2.

September 19, 2009

Handheld, from a moving car. 15s exposure.

May 6, 2008

I stumbled across this thread on dgrin a couple of days ago...and loved the shot- I wanted to get one for myself- Before tonights game, I thought I would practice---this was my 3rd attempt. I was pretty pumped- Thought by the end of the game I'd have an awesome shot...Unfortunately, I didn't get to take any shots during the game, so I don't have a better one...yet. My new self-imposed goal for the rest of the season...

...and just for the record, post processing:
-rotated 1 deg-
-unsharp mask 80%,4,10
-auto levels
-cropped

August 9, 2009

Taken for a photo scavenger hunt, "Something Very Big"

October 8, 2008

More fall hiking...from the weekend...

Post:
-Slight straighten (rotate)
-Slight level adjustment

May 11, 2008

Green Heron-

Post:
-crop ~35%
-manual curves adj, using this tutorial
-unsharp mask 70%/5/10
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July 2, 2008

Early Morning Silhouette-
Driftwood Beach / Jekyll Island, GA

Post:
-Rotate 1 deg
-Black Point + 10
-White balance to "Sunny"
-Unsharp Mask 80/4/10

July 4, 2008

Gone Shrimpin'

Taken just after sunrise, Jekyll Island, GA-

Post:
-Contrast +5

July 12, 2008

Shrimp Boats-
Darien, GA

Post:
-Rotate ~1deg
-Contrast +5

June 12, 2008

Manhattan Bridge Sunset-

Post:
-Rotate .75 deg cw / crop to match
-Fill light + 10
-USM 60/4/5

August 29, 2009

November 12, 2007

IMG_6419b Pano

Anyone for guess the skyline? --- I doubt you'd get it, because it's not that prominent...when you give up, just click the "Map This" button.

August 6, 2008

This one has me by a good 15 years or so...
Mamiyaflex C2, 180mm Lens, circa 1958

I was looking at some hit stats for my daily photo gallery today and, interestingly (at least to me), the hit map is a pretty good representation of the daily photo members... Have a look at it, if you wish-

Post:
-Square Crop
-Antique Filter

July 18, 2008

Wind Blown-
Jekyll Island, GA

Post:
-Rotated ~1.9deg + Crop
-Removed a tree to the right of this one
-"Created" the lower right section of land
-Levels adjustment
-Cloned a head poking out from behind the tree

Edit: Here is the original source.

May 31, 2008

Third day of Jill's birthday trip to NYC- I was left to fend for myself in Times Square for a little while while she shopped... So I took a few pictures of one of the most abundant things there... It was like a little mini drag race everytime the light turned green.

Shot taken panning on the middle taxi-

Post:
-Fill Light +10
-Auto Levels
-Rotate 2.5 deg and crop
-Despeckle filter

PS: Happy Birthday (29th again?) Jill!

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August 16, 2008

Just me and the boys again today...thought we'd do some redecorating. The boys think there should be a larger-than-life-size picture of one of us on every wall we have...

The pic they're hanging was one Trev took of me last July (He's quite the artist)...We found it today...thought his entire memory card had been lost... And, if you look in the upper right, there's some more of Trev's artwork...

Post:
...OK, so we didn't really hang it (probably wouldn't have gotten away with it anyway)... The boys are standing in front of a blank wall... I created the collage effect using a free action from Panos FX... (use your favorite search engine that rhymes with oogle...)...and then merged it in between the boys and the wall...I had them hold blank sheets of paper to help them look more like they were really doing it...actors they're not, but it turned out ok... they like it. :)

July 1, 2008

March 28, 2008

Leaker-

Thanks to everyone who has looked at/commented on my pics the last few days--I haven't had the time to browse that I would like...but I'll return soon-

June 4, 2008

I think this shot should be called Layover Boredom. Two hour layover, not much to do-

Post:
-Composite of 6 50 sec exposures (3 Landings, 3 Take-Offs)
...two of the take-offs are almost off of the image...
-6 Layers, Blended with "Lightest Color" mode
...It amazed me how exact the landing paths were...
-Contrast increased
-Cropped

March 9, 2008

Almost Gone-

Back into the 60s today, but I wanted to get at least one snowscape posted--since we only get snow once every three or four years. And since the snow melted by about noon yesterday, I had very little time to shoot...this is about all I got- Maybe in 2012 I can do better...

This pic was taken about 9am, and the snow had already melted about halfway...by 11am, there was barely a trace left-

October 1, 2008

Some trees in the fog...

Post:
-Contrast +5
-Diffuse Glow (20%)

May 15, 2008

Waiting in the Lunch Line-

post-
-Auto Levels
-16x9 Crop
-Cloned a small post

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