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What an amazing GREAT time the Mt Tabor Adult Soapbox Derby 2009 event was! Too much fun, that's all I can say.
Since there are so many good straight photographs, I decided to try something a little different. Heavy texture layers. Super ultra holy cow fantastic wide angle lens. Emphasizing the machines. I rather like the effect.
This series of images has several inspirations. I like the wood cut or engraved feel of these. We see these kinds of images around so many of the Paris flea markets. Alas, I can't afford them and all too often they're not of a subject I'm interested in.
My many thanks to the G'Mic developer, David Tschumperle and to David Patrick for providing a kewl new tool and for sharing what's possible.
Somewhere on the way to Utah you come upon a stretch of road where the big rock known as El Capitan or Agathla starts to peak over the horizon you are tempted to stop your vehicle every 10 yards or so to take shots.
I usually dont care for shots with ugly chain link fence in them but there is something about this shot I like.
No post processing on this at all, its a jpeg nikon defines as "basic" as I usually shoot raw+basic. The raw is for processing and the jpeg to make browsing images faster after I dump them on the computer.
I realize it doesnt look all that imrpessive at this size but it does look better viewed large.
This is the very first shot taken on our week long vacation to Utah, not the kind of road you can just keep driving on without stopping for a few snaps.
Inspired after seeing flickr-ite mjhinton's veiw of this place I went in search of my own images and found this and the previous upload to be the best of what was available from my own archives.
The light you see in the center of the photo is a flame from a gas/oil pipe.
Spruce Tree House in Mesa Verde the grubs were popping out of the ground cliffside and falling onto the trails.
I enjoy the tonal qualities these images achieve. Back in the day, I worked as a photo-lab-rat in Hollyweird and Irvine, California. I used to do this kind of work, though I felt quite guilty. It seemed a sinful photographic pleasure, particularly given the fact that many of my friends and I were enamored with St. Ansel and his hyper-clear B&W work.
Wandering around an amusement park that's closed for Winter is really quite fun. You never know what you'll stumble upon, which way your head will turn, things the eye will find pleasing.
I gave these photos the treatment I did because I find amusement parks hyper-real in any event. This closely matches what my mind constructs whenever I visit.
Outside Sedona, you have to make reservations to see this place.
We made reservations but there was a mix up and the park staff got there late on New Years morning as they had not known the site was even going to be open.
That said we still got in and out before the crowds hit, and there was crowds.
Sunset seems the best time to be here if you can make it during a deep snow.
Crowds are down significantly and the lighting is awesome.
Most other times I have been here its been crowded. Makes for awkward photography.
We were driving toward downtown when my wife suddenly remembered that a new mural had gone up. Quickly reversing direction we headed back up the street. Sure enough, someone had put up some new art.
I was glad to have the 10-22EF-S ultra-wide zoom. These are handheld HDRs and I used the alignmenht function to get things to map correctly in the file.
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This series of images has several inspirations. I like the wood cut or engraved feel of these. We see these kinds of images around so many of the Paris flea markets. Alas, I can't afford them and all too often they're not of a subject I'm interested in.
My many thanks to the G'Mic developer, David Tschumperle and to David Patrick for providing a kewl new tool and for sharing what's possible.
This series of images has several inspirations. I like the wood cut or engraved feel of these. We see these kinds of images around so many of the Paris flea markets. Alas, I can't afford them and all too often they're not of a subject I'm interested in.
My many thanks to the G'Mic developer, David Tschumperle and to David Patrick for providing a kewl new tool and for sharing what's possible.
Walking around Vancouver, BC was a real joy. I have come to like that city. Even with its intensely dense high rise living population, these folks are fun to be around. Strolls down the street after dark in the West End areas are a real blast! The lights. The throngs of night beings. The conspicuous consumption (Ferrari F1 parked on the street???). The atmosphere. Wow...
Wandering around an amusement park that's closed for Winter is really quite fun. You never know what you'll stumble upon, which way your head will turn, things the eye will find pleasing.
I gave these photos the treatment I did because I find amusement parks hyper-real in any event. This closely matches what my mind constructs whenever I visit.
In the mornings I pass by store windows on my way to the light rail stop. When the seasons change I watch to see what kind of Consumer Pavlovian Response items are put out for display.
I am using these images as a way to test hand held automatic exposure bracketing. It's a technique I would like to deploy when traveling to Europe and Asia.
Once I realized I had all the resources and tools needed to create unique one of a kind hand bound books of my images, I knew I had to re-process my rail images. The preparation for publishing has been a long process. I think I'm nearly there.
This series of images has several inspirations. I like the wood cut or engraved feel of these. We see these kinds of images around so many of the Paris flea markets. Alas, I can't afford them and all too often they're not of a subject I'm interested in.
My many thanks to the G'Mic developer, David Tschumperle and to David Patrick for providing a kewl new tool and for sharing what's possible.
Still no bigfoot, but you can see a tree or two in focus.
I think these motion blur shots work best if you focus on a point and let the rest smear on past.
Looking at it now I think I should desaturate that blue but perhaps its just at this size that it bothers me.
Some relief from the sun came along in the form of thick dark clouds, still got burned.
Square Tower Group is next to the visitor center and worth the full hike around, the outlyers are more to my liking as you will most likely not see anyone else.
Dresden was a rescue we took in off the streets of Phoenix.
We couldnt keep her due to alpha female politics between her and our large bitch Ursa.
Those two would fight to the death or something too close too it so we kept them apart as we nursed Dresden back to health and adopted her out to a lady in Glendale who lost a dog recently to cancer.
This was last year but losing my oldest dog Scouty reminded me of Dresden.
I got very attached to her and it was difficult to see her go but at least we knew she was going to a good home that had a dog already that didnt hate her.
Her story in more detail here.
Other shots of Dresden.
flickr.com/photos/fangars/424802401/
In New Mexico there is a pueblo constructed of sandstone and limestone. The red rock cliffs surrounding this pueblo make it worth a visit.
Small box canyons start to split the landsape around this area, creating corridors with interesting walls.
Local contrast and saturation control is important, no matter which approach a person takes.
One thing I've noticed is that folks who've worked in a traditional darkroom have a different sense of what makes for a "good" image than people who wandered straight into the digital world. I'm not sure how this will play out. It's too early for me to tell.
Wandering around an amusement park that's closed for Winter is really quite fun. You never know what you'll stumble upon, which way your head will turn, things the eye will find pleasing.
I gave these photos the treatment I did because I find amusement parks hyper-real in any event. This closely matches what my mind constructs whenever I visit.
This is why my nikon went into the shop.
This would have been a great shot of my 88 year old landlord lugging his huge Hassleblad and his 35mm Minolta with a long lens on it plus his camera bags up a hill towards the parking lot over Canyon Lake on the Apache Trail.
Also had the sensor cleaned.
This and many other files were getting corrupted somehow, even after they were successfully saved.
Sent it to criscam down in Gilbert and its been ready since Monday.
I didnt realize this due to a voicemail problem I was having.
When and if i ever get the job for describing objects and inscribing those descriptions on a sign to be placed below fixed telescopes I can only hope to do a little better then "house sized rock".
To be honest nothing else really comes to mind on how to describe what appeared to be a rock that was approximately the size of a house.
House Sized Rock, Raised Strata, Tunnel for repairing drilling tools(george bush doesnt want us to see that one), Drill Hole A, Main Shaft, Winch and Boiler, 6' Tall Astronaut (made of cardboard i think) and lastly, Trust Fault.
Inspired by fellow flickrite, Al_HikesAZ, and his shot of this during a bright sunny day, I thought I would upload one from a mostly cloudy day in which the clouds were moving fast over Lake Roosevelt and that whole side of Fourpeaks.
The ruins are in the very center of the shot.
Take some time in Al's photostream as it would appear he has left a footprint in every square mile of the state from looking where he has been.
He also ads a lot of great info to his images.
On the horizon you can see the San Francisco Peaks to the west.
This is later the same evening this image was taken.
organizers of the conference, Bazaar partners Graham Attwell, Matthias Kunkel and Raymond Elferink, in conclave
This is the last pass through these images. As you can see from comparing other renditions here, I like to work and work and work and image until I get several samples that appeal to me.
Working in the idea of living in a multi-verse, rather than a uni-verse, I thought it would be fun to see where the mind might take me. I'm sure for some folks the mind has taken me WAYYYYYYY out there. :-)
The mission taken from an angle that obscures the ugly parking lot.
I kind of wish the visitors centers were a bit further from the sites but aside from that this place still has a secluded feel to it.
This series of images has several inspirations. I like the wood cut or engraved feel of these. We see these kinds of images around so many of the Paris flea markets. Alas, I can't afford them and all too often they're not of a subject I'm interested in.
My many thanks to the G'Mic developer, David Tschumperle and to David Patrick for providing a kewl new tool and for sharing what's possible.
Don Tapscott discusses how techological and demographic changes are creating new ways of networking and participating in the global economy. He mentioned Flickr several times as being one of the premier photo sharing applications facilitating this new kind of networking, but I suppose that is old news to most people reading this blurb. Still, it was a very good talk, and I am interested in reading his new book when it comes out in the Fall.
An elderly lady wearing shoes that only covered her toes paused a quarter way up a cliff face to ponder why she had gone as far as she had, further up the way out of shot two elderly gentleman in shoes not much better suited then hers keep making their way to the top where the wind gusts around 70mph on cliffs edge.