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Nearly five years ago I flew to Queenstown New Zealand to participate in a workshop with Trey Ratcliff. Due to jetlag, I woke up on the first morning at an ungodly hour. But after a couple of hours walking around the hotel, dawn began, and we had the most amazing pink sky. It was an excellent start to a week of photography.
I've had this in my backlog for a very long time. The biggest challenge was that the sky was so red and orange that it did not seem real. In the original RAW images, it looks like I photoshopped the colors. To make it seem a little more realistic, I've desaturated the glow. Usually, it's the other way around; I might saturate or add vibrancy to give a photo a little extra pop. Not this time.
In the grand scale of things, five years is not a long time, but for me, it feels like a lifetime. It was a life-altering trip; it moved me in ways I can't even begin to describe. I had such a fantastic time that it almost didn't seem real. Life is rarely perfect, but that week came about as close as I've ever known. And it all started on the morning of this sunrise and continued building from there.
This is a magical walkway leading to a hidden land where the sun rests each night. Or, its a boardwalk over the Mangroves in Palmetto. We report, you decide.
All the pictures I've published this week are landscapes with water and clouds. Perhaps that has me in a mood to concoct fantasies about the scenery. Fantasies are natural for children, why not us?
I think it's cool how the leading line points to the sun. I got this photo from my 2015 archives. Maybe it was my lack of imagination that kept it hidden for so long. Or, perhaps it was meant to be buried forever, protecting the secrets of Neverland from humanity.
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Another shot from Korita Mostnice. In this one I'm trying to use the waterfall/river/sky to create a wavy split and balancing the top/bottom as well as the two sides.
Korita Mostnice, near Stara Fužina / Lake Bohinj, Slovenia.
Focus stack of 2 brackets of 5 images, from 1/4s to 4s. Blended in AuroraHDR, combined and finished up with Photoshop/Lumenzia.
Polariser and 3-stop ND filter used.
This is the side door to The Empress which I find more impressive than the front, as the new section and new parking cover were added to fit right in with the original design. Such a beautiful hotel worthy of the inner harbour.
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From Wikipedia:
Franklin Parker Preserve is an 11,379 acre natural preserve located in the Pine Barrens in Chatsworth, New Jersey. The preserve links Brendan Byrne, Wharton, and Penn State Forests. Franklin Parker Preserve is owned and managed by New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
Geography is typical of the Pine Barrens with sandy roads, pitch pines, cedar swamps, blueberry fields and tributaries of the Wading River. The 53 mile Batona Trail runs through parts of the preserve and the preserve provides habitat for rare, threatened or endangered species including bobcats, bald eagles, barred owls, northern pine snakes and pine barrens tree frogs. The area also serves as a filter for rainwater that makes its way into the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer.
Franklin Parker Preserve was a former cranberry farm that was once the third largest cranberry producer in the US. The farm was owned by Garfield DeMarco, an influential Burlington County Republican Chairman. He frequently opposed many of the pineland's preservation regulations but he decided to sell the land at a significant discount versus the lands estimated value in order to preserve it. The land was purchased by New Jersey Conservation Foundation in 2003 after they were able to raise the funds for preservation. After securing additional adjacent tracts of land from private owners in 2015 and 2016 the total acreage of the preserve is now 11,379. The preserve is named after Franklin E. Parker III, the first chairman of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission.
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Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve.
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Just a stop by Oswald's Garage to fill 'er up at park close on the magic of Disney at Disney's California Adventure.
Oswald's | Disney's California Adventure Park
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A Black Kite photographed at the Western Treatment Plant, Victoria, Australia. Image was edited in Lightroom CC, Aurora HDR and Topaz Photo AI. - Photographed on 3/12/2022 8:51:58 am with a Sony ILCE-7RM4 and FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 2X Teleconverter @ 978 mm, ¹⁄₃₂₀₀ sec at ƒ / 13, ISO 2500
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Bee in Flight
Today i visited the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens to capture some Macro and Bird photos (It felt like it had been awhile since I had been out taking photos). I had two main goals when I visited and that was to capture a (hopefully) half decent macro shot of a Bee or related insect and the same for some Bird photographs. I tried shooting with the Raynox DCR-250 but hand held was a bit of a pain (given there was also wind) so I just used the Nikon D610 and Sigma 150 mm macro in this case.
I edited the image in Lightroom and Aurora HDR. I also fed the image through Topaz Denoise AI (because I was handheld so increased the ISO to get a faster shutter speed) as well as Topaz Sharpen AI (just to remove a little motion blur from the Bee as the shutter speed was not quite fast enough)
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Landscape photography is the most natural thing to do around the section of Florida I live in. And since its so easy, I should be doing a lot more of it.
But life gets in the way. There are dozens of perfect evenings that I let slip by. No matter what I'm doing, I still look out the window to see what I'm missing. I think sailors do the same thing.
I don't get a lot of opportunities to take pictures of the mountains. I think of that as landscape photography. However, in Florida, we use clouds as stand-ins for peaks. They are usually interesting enough to fill up the top half of a frame. Throw in a sunset and Bob's or uncle.
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A setting looking to the southeast while taking in views to the Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde National Park. This was from an overlook as I began heading out to walk the Petroglyph Point Trail. What I wanted to capture with this view was the look beyond the nearby evergreen trees to the cliff dwelling site on the other side of the opening. There was almost a portal like look or framing created with the trees. I pulled back a little on the focal length so that I could include more of the cliff and nearby landscape to add to this national park setting.