PAD2012
Nestucca River Water Swirls - taken today on a road up the Nestucca River to some BLM land. The river was beautiful as well as the moss laden trees and rocks. Happy New Year to all. My heartfelt thanks for all the support over the last year. I look forward to participating in 2013. Thanks for making my Astoria Bridge image number one.
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12-30-12 Sunset at Astoria Bridge. This was a 140 sec exposure using the Lee Big Stopper and a 2 stop graduated ND filter.
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12-29-12 Bandon Long Exposure Sunset
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12-28-12 Storm approaching at the South Jetty of the Columba River. This is a black and white conversion of an earlier shot.
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12-27-12 The Tillamook Great Blue Heron's Old Car. This was post processed on My iPad.
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12-26-12 Storm Over the Columbia. This is the tidal flats of Fort Stevens State Park in Hammond, Oregon. I have been frequenting this area to see the Snowy Owls. On Christmas Eve, I saw 3 and photographed them, nothing special since they were so far away. We went again today and saw two owls. The weather was very stormy and this was the wonderful lighting in between squalls. This is a 5 stop HDR. I was trying to use my 10 stop ND. However, when the rain started coming down, I got too many water spots on the filter. More than would be practical to clean up since for the long exposure, I was shooting at f16.
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12-25-12. Seattle Waterfront from Pier 66
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12-24-12 Garibaldi Marina - I was able to shoot this image this morning. I was finally able to get out and try shooting with my new Lee Big Stopper (10 stop ND) that I bought about a month ago. First chance that the weather permitted a long exposure that I was able to get out. This is a three exposure stack 25 sec, 30 sec, and 40 sec.
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Ilene in the Sky with Hearts
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12-22-12 Portland Head Lighthouse processed with tiny planet, camera awesome, grungetastic and percolator ipad apps.
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12-21-12 Another Portland Head Lighthouse Shot - thanks for all the wonderful support and comments for my photos of late. Recently there have been just some incredible images. I appreciate the feedback and critiques as well. I often enjoy doing multiple versions of an image. I hope that you all joy that as well.
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12-20-12 Dawn at Portland Head Lighthouse. This is a long exposure image that was 40 second single exposure. Thanks for the feedback on my two Nubble shots. I tried reprocessing the black and white with more contrast.
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12-19-12 Nubble lighthouse in Color. I want to ask your opinion on whether you like this better in color or black and white (yesterday's)
Thanks for all the feedback and support of my work.
12-18-12 Nubble Lighthouse, York, Maine. This image was a 20 sec exposure. I used a 10 stop ND filter. I was wishing for clouds.
12-17-12 Old Orchard Pier-Maine. Thanks for making my sunrise shot number one. I was thrilled and honored.
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12-16-12 Portland Head Lighthouse at Dawn. Thanks for all the positive feedback and support on my black and white photo of this lighthouse.
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12-15-12 Portland Head Lighthouse, Portland, Maine I just returned today from my business trip to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I ended up having most of the day free on Friday so I headed up to Maine and visited this lighthouse at dawn. Lucky for me that sunrise is late since I hadn't totally switched to eastern time. I'm tired today since yesterday/this morning I was up for 22 hours straight. I also want to thank Mulu and Mike for getting up early to travel with me. I have been processing some of my photos. This was an HDR processed in Photomatix Pro, converted to Black and White in Silver Effex Pro 2, and texture and frame came from Photoframe.
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12-13-12 The Yaquina Head Lighthouse -
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Another Seattle Ferris Wheel
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12-11-12 Seattle Hard Rock
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12-10-12 Seattle waterfront - near argosy cruise plaza with new Ferris wheel.
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12-9-12 Close Up of the Ferris Wheel at the Seattle Waterfront - HDR converted to Black and White using Sliver Effex Pro 2.
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12-8-12 Sunset Clouds over the South Jetty of the Columbia, Fort Stevens, Oregon
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12-7-12 Foggy morning at Matthews Beach
12-6-12 Another view from the Pier 66 Bridge. I was thrilled with all your comments yesterday and that my Pier 66 waterfront image was number one.
My apologies for not being able to finish commenting on photos. The site went into read mode while I was reviewing and commenting on images. We certainly had some really good images yesterday.
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12-5-12 Downtown Seattle As Seen From Pier 66 - this is a 5 stop Hdr processed with Photomatix and then Color Effex Pro 4.
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12-4-12 Another orchid from the Volunteer Park Conservancy in Seattle.
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12-3-12 Textured Orchid #2 - This was another orchid that I photographed at the Volunteer Park Conservancy in Seattle this weekend. I processed this with LR4, Color Effex 4, and Flypaper Textures.
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12-2-12 The Textured Orchid - This was taken at the Seattle Conservancy. I processed this using Color Effex 4 and textures from Flypaper Textures.
I will be leaving next week for a business trip to Portsmouth, NH. If anyone has any tips for photography or places to eat lobster I would be grateful.
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12-1-12 Inside the Cow Bay Cafe. This was shot with a Nikon 50 f1.2 lens at 1.2. I love the shallow depth of field. I really appreciate all the warm comments and support. still feeling a bit under the weather. Hope to be back to commenting tomorrow.
11-29-12 Autumn Tree
Sorry for being too tired to comment tonight.
11-28-12 Sunflowers
11-27-12 Snow Geese in Motion, Fir Island, Washington
Thanks for all the warm comments and support for my weathered shed and Seattle Ferris Wheel.
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11-26-12 Weathered Shed- this was taken at the Seattle Japanese Garden
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11-25-12 Columbia Gorge Waterfall, OR
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Seal Rock Sunset, Oregon
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11-23-12 This is one of my favorite images that I decided to share.
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11-22-12 Textured Mouth of the Russian River - this was a 5 exposure sequence processed in Photomatix Pro using the fusion method. I then used Color Effex Pro and then used two different Flypaper Textures.
Happy Thanksgiving to all that celebrate it.
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11-21-12 Indian Beach, Oregon - This is a six second exposure with the white balance adjusted to be 4000K.
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11-20-12 Seal at Salt Point State Park - This was an amazing place. Wish we could have stayed longer but we are determined to visit again and camp there.
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11-19-12. Trinidad State Park, California. This was an in camera HDR shot with my Nikon D800e.
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11-18-2012 Sonoma Sunset - This is a 5 exposure HDR processed in Photomatix Pro and Color Effex Pro 4.
Thanks for all the comments and support on my Soaring Pelican.
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11-17-12 Soaring Pelican - I took this shot a few weeks ago when I was in a town called Tokeland on the Willapa Bay, Washington. This is a very well known birding area but I did not see any rarities.
Thanks for all the recent support and warm comments on my recent postings.
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11-15-12 Matthews Beach Foggy Morning - I was heading out to work this morning and saw such beautiful fall light. There was fog rising out of the lake at sunrise. I decided to take a quick run to the lake at the expense of getting to work a little late and was fortunate enough to photograph this image. I processed this as an HDR done in Photomatix using the natural (fusion) setting which just extends the dynamic range. I did the post processing using the new OnOne Suite 7 where I also added a texture. I think there will be additional images that I will share from this shoot. I used my Panasonic GH2.
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11-14-12 Coquille Long Exposure. This was an 130 sec exposure using a ten stop neutral density filter. I like how this blurred the cloud movement.
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