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This is just getting my feet wet (both figuratively and literally) in HDR. It is a 3 images bracketed exposure -2EV, 0EV, +2EV, with the tone mapping done in Photoshop.
So... here it is - my first HDR attempt.
All comments are welcome ;)
2007 was a more beautiful time.
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In the far reaches of the Rockburn Valley, where the land’s breath hangs heavy with the chill of glaciers, a river cuts its course—a living vein of turquoise light. It churns and twists over stones slick with moss so deep and green it seems pulled from the memory of the earth itself. The water is restless, not rushing but yearning, its currents as wild and clear as something newly born. The air hums low, dense with the pulse of unrecorded ages, carrying the faint metallic scent of stone ground fine by ancient ice.
The trees here do not simply stand; they loom, their limbs draped in thick, knotted moss that sways like tattered banners in the dim light. They clutch at the soil with roots that claw deeper than sight, as though they too once sought shelter from something vast and nameless. Light, scarce and precious, threads its way through the canopy in fractured beams, catching the spray of the river and turning it to shards of fleeting brilliance, like the gleam of jewels scattered by careless hands.
This place feels suspended, as if caught in the in-breath of the world. It is not still—never still—but its motion is ancient, deliberate, woven into the rhythm of creation itself. One can almost feel the ground listening, the trees whispering secrets into the water. It is the kind of place that makes time itself falter, unsure whether to move forward or circle back into itself.
You could imagine, though only in half-believing, a figure stepping from the shadowed thicket—lithe and ageless, with the quiet weight of knowledge in their stride. Perhaps an elf, silent save for the faint rustle of leaf and cloak, their gaze older than this valley yet curiously unburdened. Or perhaps the faint laughter of smaller voices might echo here, unseen and mischievous, as if some hobbit children had wandered too far from their fires, discovering a world they could neither explain nor leave.
The valley resists being understood. It is not merely remote, but stubborn in its remoteness, reluctant to yield to maps or words. This is a place where no stories have yet been written, where the river moves like thought, swift and ungraspable, and the forest holds its counsel with jealous quiet. To stand here is to be unmoored, as though the valley’s very presence has severed the thread that tethers you to the world beyond, leaving only the sharp, resonant truth of now.
This is part of the view from atop a hill near the southern Chinese city of Guilin. I had thought it was the 213m-high Fubo Hill but I can't get the geography right when looking at the trademarked geographic mapping site, so my memories may be playing a trick...
We visited Guilin as the penultimate stop on our tour of China to cruise down the Lijiang (River Li), looking at the most fantastic limestone karst scenery. A little flavour of that can be seen with the two outcrops in the mid-distance on the far bank of the river. The farmland out to and around those outcrops seems to have now all gone, swallowed up by the expanding city.
Scanned from a negative.
Our first night we stopped short of Collier Cone. We were just shy of Minnie Scott Springs, I believe. It wasn't so much that it was a long hike, being the first time I tried to drag along all of my camera gear, on a full- blown backpacking trip, I tried to pack way too much weight and we called it a day early. This view is of the North Sister with Collier Cone being right in front of it, Middle Sister and Little Brother all the way to the right. To the Flickr people who showed interest, thanks so much for the explore yesterday, I was not expecting almost 1500 views in a single day when I posted it! :)
New Sky and moon
I then tweaked the whole image using nik Color Efex Pro plugin to warm it up and apply some colour grading and local contrast adjustments.
I had a wonderful road trip with two friends recently. We went to Southern Saskatchewan.
This set of photos was from our trip back to Alberta. It's always a thrill to find an owl in a barn window!
The landscape photos were taken through the window as we traveled the highways.
Thanks for your views and comments! They are all greatly appreciated!
Amanecer desde el monte Mendaur que estuvo a punto de fastidiarse por la gran cantidad de nubes, pero gracias a estas nubes pudimos disfrutar de unos colores inolvidables.
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I finally got to visit Plitvice National Park today. It is Croatia's oldest and possibly best known national park consisting of 16 lakes arranged in cascades with some stunning waterfalls.
It was much cooler than on the coast and the light wasn't particularly great for the photos but what a breathtaking scenery.