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Morning at Windy Hill Open Space Preserve in Portola Valley, CA.
5-shot bracket, 1.0EV difference. Postprocessed in Aurora HDR and finished in GIMP.
Photography and editing by Geoffrey Liu
Friday morning in Miami is no different than any other place. Oh who am I kidding, it's WAY different!
For me, a big advantage of taking a cruise out of Miami is, well, Miami. An average view from the deck of a large ship is still better than a great view from a skyscraper. Nevertheless, the new boats are big enough to be skyscrapers.
Miami is a favorite city of mine to photograph. You have it all, the beach, the nightlife, the cityscapes. No matter how you look at it, it's not your average city. I'm sure it has its problems, but as with many things, I tend to look at it through rose-colored glasses.
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This section of mangrove is within walking distance of my home in Palmetto. I think it's interesting how the roots appear chaotic, yet the structures create a fortification against the erosion of the land.
Half of Florida would be washed away if not for mangroves; they are an excellent example of how life evolves to overcome. It also seems like an example of order versus entropy, the seemingly disorganized root structure is well suited to ensure it, and the land survives in place.
What you see here is an HDR image composed of five exposures. The mangrove roots were dark, so I blended an overexposed frame for that. The sky was bright in comparison, so I combined an underexposed frame for that. In the end, my seemingly haphazard approach to composition resulted in something slightly more enduring. It is my very own example of order from chaos. Perhaps that is what I should call mangrove photography. Or not.
The Eye
I find something fascinating about eyes, it is suggested that the first organisms with a modification resembling an eye lived around 550 million years ago, and over time they have progressively evolved to the complex structures we know as our eyes today. The early 'eyes' were simple photo-receptor proteins which were sensitive to light, they could see shapes or color but could not tell if it was light or dark. Because these organisms used photosynthesis to create food for themselves, being able to determine where the most light was coming from was a huge advantage.
The image below is a HDR image of my Daughters eyes, this was captured with a Nikon D610 and Sigma 150mm macro. Settings were 150mm, f/5.6, 1/250 seconds, ISO 1600. Image is a three shot HDR stack which was edited in Aurora HDR, before being finished off in Luminar 4 (AI Structure, AI Enhance).
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This is a long exposure of Sarasota Bay last Sunday afternoon. The exposure is a little over two minutes so you can see the movement of the clouds and the water appears still. The scene appears deserted and serene. In reality the scene was serene but it not deserted. On a Sunday afternoon everyone is out on the water, and I do mean everyone. More at goo.gl/9OF3z6
One of the pair of foxes that greet you at the entrance torii to the path up Mount Inari. The foxes are messengers for the prayers for the kami - or spirit - of Inari.
HDR from 3 photos, taken on my Fuji X100T
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I was out all day with John Shillaw
( www.flickr.com/photos/jshillaw/favorites/ ) and another photographer friend of ours, John Knorr. We had a great day shooting things that I would not normally shoot (rusted structures etc.). We ended the day looking for a ghost town, but we ran out of daylight before ever finding it. John & John were mostly shooting film.
I processed this with the new Aurora HDR software. Awesome software! #AuroraHDR and Topaz Texture Effects. #TopazTextureEffects
Short Beaked Echidna
During a trip from Upper Beaconsfield through Guys Hill, my daugher and I came across a Short Beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) wandering through the bush on the side of the road. Having a love for photographing wildlife, I could not help but stop and take some photos from a reasonable distance so as to not scare the animal. This photo was taken with a Sony A7R 4 and Sigma 150-600mm telephoto. The camera settings were: 1/1250, f/6.3 & ISO 640. The image was edited in Lightroom CC and with Aurora HDR before being finished off in Topaz Denoise AI. Interesting fact about the Echidna: The spines you see on an echidna are actually long, tough, hollow hair follicles.
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This is a view of Mount Alfred from up the side of another mountain in Kinloch, Otago, New Zealand. The type of wide angle lens I'm using makes Mount Alfred appear far off and small, but in reality it is quite a bit larger. I got here by helicopter and was just one of a dozen spots chosen by our pilot from Over The Top - The Helicopter Company in Queenstown, New Zealand. More at goo.gl/HAb4bs