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Views from my ascent of Hurricane Ridge Road to the summit, in the Olympic National Park, Washington.

About another mile of ascending until I broke through the clouds.

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Views from my ascent of Hurricane Ridge Road to the summit, in the Olympic National Park, Washington.

Nearly at the summit. Looking towards the Olympic mountain range. And what's left of the receding glaciers.

Multi-image stitched panorama at 50mm.

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Overlooking the Boulder Valley

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Today we went for a Hatsumode event, a Japanese New Year party in Berkeley, California. It was a nice sunny afternoon, so we decided to see the sunset at the nearby Grizzly Peak. Usually there is a nice westward view of the Bay Bridge, with San Francisco behind it. Today it was too foggy though. When we left I noticed this scene to the South. I am glad we came up here.

I processed a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures.

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Today is the first day of fall. Open your eyes, and embrace the little details when strolling in nature.

On Sunday I joined a photowalk at Point Pinole Regional Shoreline park, located north of Berkeley, California. You can walk for miles - it is a big park overlooking the San Pablo Bay, which is part of the San Francisco Bay. This pier is at the very tip of the park, and is illuminated by the settling sun.

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure. I took three bracketed exposures but only used one to get the pronounced blacks.

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The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nevada, has a very unique architecture. This part of the building is a big hall. The building was designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, who among others designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, then merged them selectively.

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Wilde Möhre

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I went to the Robert C Levy Tunnel (also called Broadway Tunnel) in San Francisco with the intent to do long exposures of cars in the tunnel. Those photos did not turn out that well. Walking back towards the exit I noticed the reflections in the tiled wall. Perfect serendipity!

I took a long exposure, then processed a balanced HDR photo from it.

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I really like the way this turned out! I was able to get the sun to align with a crack in the barn as the sun rose. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2

Yet another layered sunset. This time, somewhere over the English Channel, between Dieppe and Hastings

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I did not know about the little cypress tree garden at Langdon Ct in the Presidio, that overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge. I was walking around at night and stumbled upon it. Sometimes you get positive surprises. It was a cloudy night - the bright golden gate bridge lightens the clouds.

I took three bracketed long exposure with an ND filter, then processed a balanced HDR photo from them. The beautiful red tint comes from the cheap ND8 filter.

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Earlier this year we went hiking along the coast of Santa Cruz, California. I captured this scene shortly after sunset.

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a long exposure in RAW format.

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Una de las calles del casco viejo de Vitoria, al caer la tarde, la luz iba entrando poco a poco por las calles, dando como resultado esta imagen. Intentando, que tanto los edificios del primer termino, como los del fondo quedaran, lo mas compensados posible.

One of the streets of the old town of Vitoria, at the fall of the afternoon, the light was gradually entering the streets, resulting in this image. Trying, that both the buildings of the first term, and those in the background, would be as compensated as possible.

Letztens besuchte ich ein neues Café mit Kaffeerösterei in meinem Leipziger Stadtteil Gohlis! Ich bin begeistert, so eine schönes Szene Cafe, für jeden Geschmack etwas dabei.

Face Rock and Cats and Kittens, Bandon Beach, Oregon.

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Did you know that San Francisco has houseboats? After going to an entrepreneurship event in San Francisco I went to nearby Mission Creek. There are houseboats since the sixties. In the last few years they got surrounded by high-rises. A local news article has some background on the houseboats.

This shot cost me $68. When I went back to the car I had a parking ticket on the windshield. No parking on that street from 12:01am to 02:00am on Mon, Wed, Fri. I got the ticket at 12:16am. My bad, mentally I was still on Tuesday. But do you really think they clean the roads three times a week? Exactly after midnight? Seems like SF takes measures to cunningly filling their coffers.

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a long exposure RAW image, pulled the curves for mid tones, and selectively reduced the color saturation in the sky to make the scene pop.

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A6000 + SELP16-50 mm, main levée AF-S.

Foto del puente de Vizcaya, construido a finales del siglo XIX y fue el primer puente transbordador del mundo. El puente, enlaza las localidades de Getxo y Portugalete.

Photo of the Biscay Bridge, built in the late nineteenth century and was the first ferry bridge in the world. The bridge links the towns of Getxo and Portugalete.

Streaks of light appear at sunset above Haystack Mountain and the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. Boulder County, Colorado.

It was in these fields in the early 1800s that the Arapahoe Indians, led by Chief Niwot, made their winter home.

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Boulder County, Colorado

Travelling from the Eastern United States, the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, beginning with the foothills seen in this photo, rise up from the prairie grasslands in a dramatic way to more that 3,000 ft. above the flatlands below.

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In June we went to see the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas, Nevada. We first walked on the bypass bridge, which is also an impressive structure. This is the view from the Arizona side of the dam upstream. The water level of Lake Maed is extremely low, caused by the extended drought.

The title is a play on a song. Do you recognize it?

I processed a balanced HDR photo and a paintery HDR photo from three RAW exposures, then selectively blended them together.

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Views from my ascent of Hurricane Ridge Road to the summit, in the Olympic National Park, Washington.

Multi-image stitched composite/panorama.

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A very tiny flower measuring about 1cm across, growing from a concrete crack.

Made from 12 photos and stacked in Helicon Focus.

Taken with a 16mm macro extension tube from Meike.

Since the a6000 doesn't have a free built-in focus bracketing feature, I used an experimental app made available by our friends here:

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The app can be installed in the camera and it works well.

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We sometimes go hiking at nearby Rancho San Antonio in Cupertino, California. On the way there is a farm called Deer Hollow Farm. I spotted these cattle/pig stairs, used to load the animals onto wagons/trucks in the old days. Nature is slowly reclaiming the contraption.

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.

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The Zion National Park in Utah is an amazing place. Turn around a corner, yet another breathtaking view of the red rocks. I held the camera low on this footpath. It just started to sprinkle a bit.

I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from three RAW exposures, then merged them using the paintery version for the wood and shrubs.

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Today we had some rain in the Silicon Valley. The rain stopped before sunset so in anticipation of a potential nice sunset I headed up on Mt. Hamilton. It was too cloudy for a sunset photo. On the way back I stopped on my favorite turn on Mt. Hamilton Road.

I tried this light painting. I put my camera on self timer with 30 sec exposure, and walked in the middle of the road while circling the LED light panel facing forward. The camera registered just the vent holes of the light panel.

I processed a balanced HDR photo and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW long exposure, and played with the color balance to give the scene a mysterious feel.

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The Golden Gate Bridge is pretty, no matter from what angle you look at. This is a lesser known view from Fort Baker on the Sausalito side of the bridge.

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Views from my ascent of Hurricane Ridge Road to the summit, in the Olympic National Park, Washington.

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Views from my ascent of Hurricane Ridge Road to the summit, in the Olympic National Park, Washington.

Multi-image stitched composite/panorama.

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More Autumn color from around Morris Il. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2

Esta foto la tomé, desde el palacio de Miramar, desde donde tenemos una magnifica vista de toda la bahía. En esta ocasión, el protagonista es el Monte Urgull, donde aún se conservan fortificaciones, que defendían la ciudad de los ataques por mar. En lo alto del monte, podemos ver la estatua, del sagrado corazón de Jesús y en la falda del monte se encuentran, una serie de fortificaciones, que se han ido modernizando, con el paso del tiempo.