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I took my time at Mugu Point the last visit, trying hard to get better composed shots as well as a variety of shutter speeds. It had been very cloudy all day and unlike usual, they didn't seem to be going anywhere. As a result, I knew I had plenty of time to get both surface shots and sky shots, especially as it got closer to sundown.
As I've mentioned, I really don't feel comfortable near the edge of any dark water--whether oceans, lakes, ponds etc. This cove was my starting point on both visits to this beach and I navigated in a similar route though the large waves kept me about 10ft further back than the first visit. As a result, some of the great places I set up on last time were regularly under water and I had to find different areas to shoot. There's so many amazing vantages from here and directly behind that it wasn't an issue.
There's something very relaxing about getting to the location you planned to shoot early, moving methodically and slowly to different areas and getting most of the shots off you wanted. When I rush, I make mistakes and this happens most when I arrive late and try to squeeze the last bit out of the sunset. The amount of relaxation for me increases at the ocean (and further when shooting long exposures). It's like being inside of a white noise machine with a nice, steady breeze blowing. Maybe next time I'll bring a beach chair.
Point Mugu Beach
Malibu, California
June 11th, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@50mm
ISO 100
f/13
23 seconds
ND1000
CPL
Resumir Cuenca en unas pocas líneas no sólo es tarea baladí, sino casi un sacrilegio, ya que por los huecos de la estrechez perderíamos siempre algo valioso, algo importante. Cuenca es ciudad para reposar, no de visita apresurada. Una ciudad para ver por dentro, paseando sus calles, entrando en sus rincones monumentales; y contemplar desde fuera, desde el otro lado del Júcar; para ver bañada por el sol o iluminada por la noche. Para ver las construcciones del hombre y las de la naturaleza. Para descubrir escondidos secretos de callejones fachadas y callejuelas, o para que invada la imponencia de su catedral, o sumergirse de lleno en la envoltura de monumentos de la Plaza Mayor; para la historia del arte o el arte abstracto contemporáneo.
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La ciudad que se asoma al Júcar colgada desde la pared que la sustenta, es, merecidamente, Patrimonio de la Humanidad e invita desde su percha a transitarla con calma, degustarla y llevársela prendida. Cuenca es la ciudad que no se resume, nos resume ella y nos hace vulnerables ante su esplendor y su belleza.
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Cuenca summarize in a few lines is not only trivial task, but almost sacrilegious because through the holes of the narrowness always lose something valuable, something important. Cuenca is a city to rest, not hasty visit. A city to see inside, walking the streets, entering his monumental corners; and look from outside, from the other side of the Júcar; to see bathed in sunshine or illuminated at night. To see the constructions of man and nature. To discover hidden secrets of facades alleys and lanes, or to invade its imposing cathedral, or being immersed in the envelope of monuments Plaza Mayor; for the history of contemporary art or abstract art.
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The city overlooking the Júcar hanging from the wall that supports it, is deservedly a World Heritage Site and invites from his perch to journey it calmly, taste it and take her pinned. Cuenca is the city that is not summed up, she sums up and makes us vulnerable to its splendor and beauty.
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I'm deducting the $20 it cost to enter the park from the overall $1,000,000 views. I think that's fair.
I wasn't totally sure what to expect since I've traditionally been a person who explores around home rather than do destination or tourist photography. It had been pleasant but windy most of the morning through New Mexico but now it was much colder (in the 40's), had higher swirling winds and a constantly dramatic sky. At one point, Scotch almost blew off a cliff. Then my camera nearly did the same.
My biggest regret was poor time management, I spent about 90 minutes covering the first 4 miles and about 30 minutes flying through the last 24 miles. I called the info line at about 4:55 when i realized i had another 15 miles to drive to make sure I wouldn't get...locked in. I may have even paid $40 for the fee. Who knows.
Crystal Forest
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
28 MPH winds
36°F 3:43 PM
Alt: 5,550ft
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/250th sec
CPL
Parts of my time in Huntington Beach featured some interesting skies but the conditions made a lot of my shots tougher than they should've been. The sky had very little color which surprised me. To my left, it was very hazy and overcast and to my right, a thick golden haze with tremendous glare at most angles and settings. The best and most interesting option seemed to be straight out to sea, though my long exposure shots were pretty harsh and there were hardly any boats off in the horizon for quicker shutter speeds.
At one point, not long before the sun started falling, it got very dark to my left while the sky to my right had an orangish yellow color towards the sun. There was this clear gap (and quite a lot of crepuscular rays over the next half hour through various holes in the sky) that allowed some bluer light through and it created this really nice shimmer on the incoming tide.
It was pretty windy with a heavy mist from the ocean and incoming surf and mostly overcast. The tide was constantly changing it seemed and I didn't stay dry for this photo nor about a dozen other shots. Often, I try to use the edge of the incoming surf as my point of focus, not connecting in my head that the water is--at that moment--6 inches from my tripod. While many of my shots didn't turn out how I had hoped, I was happy with a handful.
Huntington Beach
Huntington Beach, CA
March 13th, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon Rebel T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/5
1/1000th second
CPL
Sunrises confuse me. Panoramas confuse me. With that said, I decided to try and kill 2 birds with one stone and take advantage of a sleepless night.
I've always struggled with insomnia and prefer evening to morning. I'm rarely awake at sunrise, though it's not uncommon for me to fall asleep as it begins. When I do try, I'm normally a little late to arrive and my brain is on sunset by default. It's hard to see things in reverse. I could see the interesting clouds forming from my bed and finally just got up, got my gear together and left without waking the dog.
Panoramas are something I'm just now trying to figure out. Like sunrises, my brain has trouble shooting a panorama in portrait and doing everything at a very awkward angle.
I was the only person at the Hollywood Bowl Overlook when I arrived and I only had about 5 minutes of great sky and light before the haze crept in. This is a 3 shot stitched panorama from the Hollywood sign to the edge of the rising sun.
Hollywood Bowl Overlook
Los Angeles, California
April 27th, 2016
6:32 AM
SETTINGS:
Canon Rebel T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@74mm
ISO 100
f/11
1/100th second
CPL
The red cliffs of Capitol Reef tower above the well maintained homestead in Fruita, Utah. Once one of the most isolated communities in the U.S., Fruita (formerly known as "Junction") is now HQ for the National Park Service, who maintain fruit orchards and a few of the old buildings. The campground is one of the most scenic in the NPS system, just a stones throw behind this scene. The park is a great example of how human impact on the landscape is nicely blended in with the surroundings, with "historical" orchards adjacent to 1500+ year old petroglyph panels, just below the cliffs of the reef.
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I was photographing some flowers outside yesterday morning, (in the rain-got soaked) and heard several flocks of geese flying overhead. I quickly snapped this shot, but I missed that gorgeous 'V' formation by a split second.
I'm not sure why these geese are so late in coming home, since I saw many flocks weeks ago, and was sure their migration was finished.
eta: I heard a bunch more honking last night in the middle of the night, very weird!
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a young buck elk grazing along the Madison River. He has a young one sitting in the grass. I was on the other bank of the river but he kept an eye on me......
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The weather here in Los Angeles now feels a lot like autumn back in DC...it just doesn't look like it. It's currently in the upper 40's and breezy thanks to the Santa Ana winds and while there's been some gloominess and rain, there are no colorful falling leaves anywhere.
I will get back to sunsets and reflections tomorrow but I wanted to post an autumn shot I took last November back in Maryland when the dog and I were out on a road trip to Pennsylvania. I remember this day pretty vividly actually, even a year later. I must have passed over this bridge in Rocky Ridge, Maryland dozens of times over the previous 6 months on my way out to explore with the camera and dog and for whatever reason, decided to stop this time and finally see what the view looked like into the water below. I had found what became my favorite waterfall only a few days earlier and now I was focused mostly on finding other sources of water for daytime long exposures with the neutral density filters. We were actually headed there after this but i pulled off the road and took a handful of low perspective shots while Scotch nervously looked on. He hates bridges and probably wasn't fond of me sitting in the middle of one with my camera and tripod.
My abilities and understanding of photography have improved greatly over the last year which is what I hoped would happen moving across the country. Part of it is the natural progression from learning through trial and error but I've also studied a lot of techniques and put in a ton of practice. What frustrates me most is when I take a shot I really love and have zero clue how to properly edit it. I try over and over and then give up, thinking I'll come back to it later when my editing skills improve more. Learning lightroom and photoshop from scratch is like learning a foreign language from scratch. Often, what looked great to me a year ago is now basically unacceptable and I often find myself rummaging through some of my old favorites and trying to edit them with a fresh set of eyes and new abilities.
At the time I shot this, I didn't have lightroom or photoshop, relying only on iphoto software and further, I edited them on my old tiny macbook with a really dark, cracked screen. The computer was so bad, I had to make small changes one at a time and then post them in a flickr folder to view on my iphone or ipad since they looked completely different on my laptop. I had previously posted a version of this a year ago but re-edited it from scratch using the methods and techniques I use now and am really glad I did. It's funny, I loved the original post of this but now looking back, I can't say I still feel the same way at all. It was way too dark, far too much contrast and missing a substantial amount of the details it had out of the camera. I kept meaning to redo it but kept getting sidetracked by newer and newer sets of images I'd take.
Tomorrow I will start posting some new images I took this past weekend on a very weird, rainy evening on Venice Beach but tonight I'm thinking about autumn, especially as it's now shifting to winter back in DC, where temperatures are in the low 30's at night. I always loved fall weather and some of the gloominess that came with it but really didn't appreciate it until I got into photography and then moved here. I do plan to mix in some more autumn shots from back home as well over the the next couple months, at least until I no longer miss it. There's almost nothing to complain about living in Los Angeles but I do wish Autumn was more like what I was used to and real trees were everywhere. To me, a palm tree is basically just a really strong, resilient weed. it grows in any conditions, doesn't need much water, and I think they're ugly :)
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Monocacy River Bridge
Rocky Ridge, Maryland
November 1st, 2015
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@35mm
ISO 100
f/8
1/8th second
This is another from the long series of shots I've taken from the waterfall on Marsh Creek just over the Maryland border into Pennsylvania. It's hidden from the road up the hill of the stream and I only found it by looking for nearby water on my GPS. the waterfall wasn't on the map obviously but I got lucky that it was right where I stopped.
In the half dozen or so trips I took here from the end of October to the end of November, the conditions were never quite the same and i constantly tried to get different angles and exposure times. This turned out to be the last time Scotch and I came here before we left for California mid December. This particular day was absolutely freezing and Scotch was more than happy to sit in the warm car 20ft from me to the right up the hill.
After this trip, I found my next obsession which was the hidden stream that cut down through the Catoctin Mountains. Had I not come to California, I'd probably still be visiting the waterfall at Marsh Creek once a week or at least until someone finally asks me to leave. I'm still in search of places like this out here in the LA area.
Marsh Creek
Cumberland Township
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 22nd, 2015
31°F at 5:35 PM
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
Ef-S 18-135mm IS STM
@18mm
ISO 100
f/16
10 seconds
ND filter
CPL
Moulton Barn, Mormon Row, Grand Teton Park
The T. A. Moulton Barn is all that remains of the homestead built by Thomas Alma Moulton and his sons between about 1912 and 1945. It sits west of the road known as Mormon Row, in an area called Antelope Flats, between the towns of Kelly and Moose. Now lying within Grand Teton National Park, it is near the homestead of Andy Chambers. The property with the barn was one of the last parcels sold to the National Park Service by the Moulton family. Often photographed (according to Flixter it is the most photographed barn in America), the barn with the Teton Range in the background has become a symbol of Jackson Hole.
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The previous post was from my favorite night of shooting in California (and perhaps anywhere) and this was is as well, only about 16 minutes later and facing the other direction.
I was thrilled after arriving when I realized the long sloping shore and low tide made for perfect reflections. I had never shot a reflection before and didn't have much to go on so I did a mix of both long and short exposures for the next few hours.
As I shot, the sky became more and more vibrant and the intensity of the sunset was unlike anything I've ever seen. The colors changed rapidly and the concentrated crimson sky in the previous post seemed to appear out of nowhere and faded not too long after. For about a half hour, people slowly gathered around the area I was shooting, watching the sky and taking videos and photos with their phones.
After the crimson began to fade away, the people left and I was all alone on the beach again, shooting until the last dot of color was gone from the sky. A bit of that fiery red is still visible in the far right and the colors were still very bold at this point, but it wasn't long after this that the only light between me and the pier was the the flashlight on my phone and the planes overhead.
I arrived here in no hurry and with very little expectations other than the hope for a nice sunset and a new place to shoot. I ended up being the last person to leave the beach and I returned a half dozen times over the next month hoping for a repeat sky that never came.
Venice Beach Pier
Venice, California
January 27th, 2016
SETTINGS:
Canon T4i
EF-S18-135mm IS STM
@24mm
ISO 200
f/10
10 seconds
CPL
Les Salles-sur-Verdon est une commune française située dans le département du Var en région française Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Ses habitants sont appelés les Sallois
Un Site une Histoire.
En 1974, l'ancien village des Salles sur Verdon fut détruit pour permettre la mise en eau du lac de Sainte Croix. A l'Office de Tourisme, une exposition de photographies, des maquettes et une vidéo vous feront revivre la fascinante histoire du village.
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Val Thorens located in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie, French Alps, is the highest ski resorts in Europe, at 2300 m altitude.
Given the high altitude of Val Thorens and the Glacier de Péclet the resort is often regarded as "snow sure". With the winter season lasting into early May and summer skiing on the glacier.
Many of its slopes face north and north-west, providing for good snow conditions. This means that the slopes are not as sunny, so the resort tends to attract a crowd more interested in skiing than "terracing." However, the resort itself faces south, and many people enjoy sitting outside in the sunshine when they have finished skiing. As well as a combination of 68 marked runs, Val Thorens also 5 terrain parks giving access to bordercross tracks, quarter pipes and jumps.
Val Thorens is the most international ski resort in France: more than 70% of its visitors are foreigners. While one will find people from all over the world in Val Thorens, British, Scandinavian, Belgian, Dutch and German tourists make up the majority.
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If you stand still outside you can hear it... Winter’s footsteps, the sound of falling leaves. ~Animal Crossing
Autumn is knocking on the door in Minnesota, my favorite time of the year. I have so many fall images from the past couple of years, I have decided to start posting the beautiful fall colors now.
Winter photo with minor cropping and re-sizing. Colors are natural though. This scene is taken from outside of the back door of the community room at the McFarlin Chelmsford housing. It is almost dusk in this photo. I like the hill and the glow of the lights on the snowy ground.
Cadillac Place, formerly the General Motors Building, is a landmark high-rise office complex located at 3044 West Grand Boulevard in the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan. It was renamed for the French founder of Detroit, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac
The ornate class-A office building was constructed of steel, limestone, granite, and marble between 1919 and 1923
In 2001 GM moved the last of its employees into the Renaissance Center on the Detroit River.[7] In 1999, General Motors transferred the property to New Center Development, Inc., a non-profit venture controlled by TrizecHahn Office Properties which acted as developer and began renovation on the upper floors which GM vacated in 2000.[8] The Annex was constructed shortly after the main building, and in the 1940s, it was connected to the adjacent Argonaut Building with a pedestrian bridge on the fourth floor. A parking structure was constructed to the east across Cass Avenue and also connected with a pedestrian bridge. A third bridge was constructed across Grand Boulevard in the early 1980s, to connect the building with New Center One and the St. Regis Hotel.
Government of Michigan—Cadillac Place[edit]
The building now houses several Government of Michigan agencies under a 20-year lease agreement approved in 1998. At the end of the lease, the State has the option to purchase the structure for $1.[9] The building's 2002 renovation to house State offices was one of the nation's largest historic renovation projects.
Upon completion it was renamed Cadillac Place as a tribute to Detroit's founder, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac.
Cadillac Place currently houses over 2,000 State employees including the Michigan Court of Appeals for District I. The building's former executive office suite serves as the Detroit office for Michigan's governor and attorney general, and several Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court have offices in the building.
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Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail Spring Green
Sevier County, Tennessee Mountains
Accessed via Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail (loop road)
Date taken: April 28, 2016
Quote: "Happily, in a world where nothing remains static, the Great Smoky Mountains provide the prescription to ward off ills and evils born of super-civilization. A single day spent in the Smokies away from the works of man is therapy to last a year. And with each passing year, the national park grows in value as a model of natural harmony." (Michael Frome, 1966)
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