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Mating season for the lizards of Homolovi brings them out to the rocks.
Rocks are more romantic then dirt.
Ask any lizard.
Not too happy with the bokeh or my focus work on this one.
This ancient pueblo is just the way it was back in the day complete with extruded aluminum bleacher benches and lightpoles(cloned out) all around in every direction.
Infrared filter applied with digikam, also added filmgrain and some funky blur, mostly to hide the terrible focus of the lens used and the lousy exposure commited by this newb photographer.
If I get back to this area I will try and do the place some justice with some better shots. That wont be easy as its surrounded by a school and other buildings.
Lomaki Pueblo taken early early morning, thats key if you ever want to go here and get shots with good light and no people.
Participants were encouraged to put post-its with their comments, remarks and ideas anytime they wanted: during presentations, in between or during discussions. The posters were collected, assessed and analyzed by participants who got an assignment letter to do so at the start of the conference.
Bring a telephoto lens and maybe even a tripod if you want to get close ups, most of the dwellings are impossible to visit.
No trail no stairs.
A wide angle as wide as you can get is hand also.
A tripod might be awkward in some of the spots but without it you might wind up with a load of soft shots like mine.
All handheld with a 70-300mm and not much experience.
Also took a lot of shots with my cheapo 28-80mm, both lenses are not to sharp to begin with and without a tripod sometimes my hands shake.
Early morning its not too crowded here so it should be a nice time to set up.
This shot is taken across a canyon.
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.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.5
Beta: 0.7
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.01
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PreGamma: 1
I was asked about how these images looked in color. Well, here it goes.
In many ways, color adds dimension to the images that seems to be lacking in the B&W versions.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.5
Beta: 0.7
Color Saturation: 1
Noise Reduction: 0.04
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PreGamma: 1
After dinner one night we had to step into this really great shop and take a few photos.
Qtpfsgui and Gimp processing.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1
Beta: 0.9
Color Saturation: 0.7
Noise Reduction: 0.03
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PreGamma: 1
Shes curious and loves to see what there is to see when we take her on hikes. I hope whoever we can find to take her in will take her places as well. If i didnt already have 4 dogs, one of which is a bitch and does not care for Dresden at all, I would keep her. She is such a sweetheart it will be hard when I finally do see her move on.
Oh legions of hawkers of fame!
Oh warehouses of moneyed greed!!
Open my wallet and take your due!!!
The faceless snickering slinky leeches of Life Force. Take it all!
After dinner one night we had to step into this really great shop and take a few photos.
Qtpfsgui and Gimp processing.
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1
Beta: 0.9
Color Saturation: 0.7
Noise Reduction: 0.03
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PreGamma: 1
Taken from below there was a lot of bright bright sky behind the bird that was cropped out, took a lot of tweaking to recover the detail of this bird without a lot of noise.
Thanks to digikam and gimp I think this image was saved from being total garbage.
Whenever I travel I find many things that attract my "eye". On this trip I realized that there must be just as many interesting things in my home town. If only I looked with a different "eye". I noticed how much my "story" of where and how I live narrows my participation of a place. Seems to me that maybe I need to be more curious and open to the world around me so that I can experience things like I do when I travel.