Bay Area, California

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We decided to go for short hike around the Windy Hill in the hills behind Palo Alto California. Boy, this hill was named aptly, it was so windy that we cut short the hike. I guess we get wimpy living in the San Francisco Bay Area. :-)

I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully adjusted color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.

-- ƒ/3.5, 16 mm, 1/4000 sec, ISO 100, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5247_hdr1bal1c.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

At work I exercise regularly by climbing the stairs up to the roof floor. There are pipes and controls next to the locked door on top. I thought to take this shot for a long time, today I finally took my camera along.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and selectively desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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-- ƒ/5.6, 24 mm, 1/25 sec, ISO 400, Sony 6000, SEL50F18, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC9628_9_0_hdr3bal1pai5d.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

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On Saturdays I like to go for a meditation session at the Upper House at Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. After our last session of the year we cleaned the house - floor, walls, windows, now shiny as new.

It's good to let go of the old year and start fresh. My e-mail inbox is by no mean clean, but the mind, surroundings and camera gear certainly are.

I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the curves and color balance. I welcome and appreciate your critical feedback.

-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, Sony A7 II, _DSC6060_hdr1bal1pho1pai1d.jpg

I took two friends to Hakone Gardens, a Japanese garden in Saratoga, California. It's a beautiful place, and has a very authentic traditional style. We sometimes go to the lower house to meditate in front of the stone garden.

I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.

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-- ƒ/8.0, 16 mm, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC6468_9_0_hdr3pai5bal1g.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Canon Rebel SL1 / EF-S 24mm f/2.8

Sigma dp0 Quattro, from an commercial flight approaching SJC.

Google bicycles, colorful. Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area

San Jose, California

Nikon Zf / 28SE / TIffen 15 Deep Yellow filter

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A view of Memorial Church in the main quad on the campus of Stanford University.

Palo Alto, CA

I went to a private Taiko drum performance by the Kato Family in Santa Clara, California. Dad is a world-champion Taiko drummer from Japan. They plan to tour 50 states and do 1000 performances in the next few years. This was their 417th performance. What an uplifting experience for their kids to travel and perform! They got interviewed by NHK World: youtu.be/iGgShoq7-r0. After the performance we had fun conversations over potluck dinner.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, desaturated the image, and added some vignetting. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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-- ƒ/0.95, 50 mm, 1/90 sec, ISO 3200, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95 "Dream Lens", HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC6459_hdr1bal1pho1f.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © 2024 Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Fuji GFX 50R / GF 50mm

Hiker's view from the start

Taken during my evening hike at Rancho San Antonio Open Reserve tonight.

Photograph Details -

Nexus 6 - Awesome camera with excellent details in shadow areas. Tends to overexpose. However, if you meter for the highlights (in other words - touch the bright areas in the frame..for example around the sun here)..it does an excellent job.

Post Processing - I used Snapseed 2.0. Lifted Shadows, adjusted ambiance, saturation, selective saturation burn, contrast, and sharpness. All on my mobile device (Nexus 6).

I am really impressed with how tools for photography have become completely mobile. It is scary enough for me to start thinking that DSLR will become obsolete for 80% of my use cases and 100% of a casual photographers use case!

I am planning to do an instructional video for editing using Snapseed.

San Jose, California, USA

abel alcantar photography

Seen from near the Mt. Um cube

Calabazas Creek

Adjacent to Wilcox High School

Santa Clara, California

February 20, 2017

Most of the year - even when we get "normal" amounts of rain - this concrete-lined creek contains just a few inches of water.

Apple - Cupertino

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

I tried a little experiment today which I thought would be easy - put my digicam on a monopod - set it wide, and on self-timer and then hoist it to the ceiling to take the shot; move around the room and repeat. I thought it would be a simple matter to seamlessly stitch the shots together to show a bird's eye view the office that I share with my office mate. The result is much more fractured than seamless but perhaps that adds to the chaos. Our office does look a little claustrophobic from the ceiling. I'll try to iron out the wrinkles of my newly devised technique and then I'll try again.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

Google's cafeteria is inside this building. I can't reveal what they served as I signed a non-disclosure agreement to get in...

palo alto, calif.

www.air-accord.com/

It was pretty windy so unfortunately I got a bit of tripod shake so the 3 exposures didn't align perfectly.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with Fast Company Contributor E.B. "Liza" Boyd about Internet policy - during a swing through Silicon Valley - during the Virtuous Circle Conference on October 10, 2016, at the Rosewood Sandhill Hotel in Menlo Park, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

@ Googleplex, California

This is Doug Engelbart's old office in SRI International.

View from Page Mill Road above Palo Alto along my temporary commute route (while my usual route is being cleared of a huge rockslide from the recent rains.) The cluster of tall buildings at the right is downtown San Jose; the white dots at the horizon are Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets members of Silicon Valley's clean energy community before a roundtable discussion on October 10, 2016, at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley Hotel in East Palo Alto, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

Yahoo!

just another up your trunk shot. View On Black

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with members of Silicon Valley's clean energy community and his State Department staff at the outset of a roundtable discussion on October 10, 2016, at the Four Seasons Silicon Valley Hotel in East Palo Alto, California. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

I think tape drives are on their way back.

where we found a fan of the Slush Conference — the very place where we first met Uma Valeti, the CEO of Memphis Meats.

Sunnyvale, California