This is my first panorama. It is also HDR. Look at the bigger picture by expanding your browser and following this link. I shot it with the Nikon 200-400mm f/4 lens at sunrise at the scenic viewpoint on Highway 20 between Sisters and Bend, Oregon. The mountains are called the Three Sisters and Broken Top [...]
This is a pathway through the woods of Chip Ross park in Corvallis, Oregon. It was a lovely, brisk morning. The fog was starting to lift and everything was peaceful and quiet. I took pictures of this path with both my Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G lens at 14mm and 24mm and I took pictures of it [...]
Another picture of oak trees in the fog from Chip Ross park in Corvallis, Oregon. I love the fog. Instead of a black & white and using Lightroom to tweak the photo, I used HDR and Topaz Adjust to reconstruct what I saw with my eye. After that treatment I masked in some of the [...]
I took this photo of Mt. Jefferson from the Hwy 20 scenic stopping spot at sunrise with the Nikon 200-400mm f/4 AF-S ED-IF lens. I did the HDR processing in Photomatix and then touched it up with Topaz Adjusts to make it look the way it looked to my eyes. It was a beautiful sunrise [...]
I just got back from Sunriver, which is a beautiful place to relax. It’s a nice vacation community with lots of bike and walking paths, houses that are spaced out from each other, and deer and coyotes moving through it. It is very relaxing to be there and it was a great way to spend [...]
I took this in April at the Woodburn Tulip Festival. I was using a macro lens – Nikon 105mm f/2.8 AF-S Micro VR. The aperture is set to f/3.2 and the shutter is 1/8000 second. I was playing with depth of field but didn’t realize that being close to an object intensifies the effect that [...]
I took this picture while on a birding walk with the Portland Audubon Society. I was using a Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens. I did not bring my tripod with me because it was a walk and it was very difficult to shoot with this very heavy lens handheld. It was difficult to get [...]
I just read Trey Ratcliff’s new eBook – Composing the Photo: Creating Order from Chaos – Bonus Edition. It full of great information. I hope that it will help me understand why some of my photos are so much more popular than the others. I need to reread it to soak up all the information.
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I took this photo at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in May. The water was drained but there was still a small pond next to the photo blind. So there were still a few birds around the water. This Great Blue Heron showed up and just looked magnificent. The Great Blue Heron is the [...]