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Some end of the day light fading behind the cliffs
Some rocks on the beach
Some wetness

Drake's Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, CA

One from my archives. I took this image several years ago in eastern Oregon. In late winter the willow and dogwood brush in the wetlands turns bright red and orange. Sunrise light was filtering through mist rising from an overnight dusting of snow so everything was glowing. The use of a polarizer helped bring out the color of the wet branches. I returned to this place a year ago to find that winds had knocked down several of the trees and heavy snow pack had flattened the brush.

I have shot this particular building (Bridge Bank in San Jose, CA) before: http://goo.gl/vyKHH Although I like this earlier version I have always envisioned something different. Finally last weekend I had time and the clouds were right (sadly this doesn't happen often in the Bay Area). Besides the usual 10 stop ND filter I also used a CP filter to get the glass front surface just as I wanted it. In fact most of my LE photos have been made with a CP filter added. Besides the extra 2 stops it allows me to play with the degree of reflections.


#longexposurethursday curated by +Francesco Gola and +Le Quoc
#bwfineartle curated by +Joel Tjintjelaar
#fineartpls curatd by +Marina Chen
#plusphotoextract curated by +Jarek Klimek
#ArchitecturalVisions

Brighton Marina - This is the sea defences around Brighton Marina. I was restricted to shooting from the very end of the defences as the tide was high, which limited the compositions I was able to do.
41 seconds, F16, ISO 100, B&W ND110.
This post is dedicated to +Edwin Song, who if I've counted correctly, was the 40,000th person to add me to their circles. (Edwin, if you like any of my pictures, feel free to pick one from my website and I'll send you a freebie print - send me a mail) Thanks Edwin, and thank you everyone else for your continued support!
+Francesco Gola's #longexplosurethursday , +Giuseppe Basile and +Mark Esguerra's #thirstythursdaypics
#photoextract #exposedphoto

Today has been deemed Desert Day.
Today was the day I sat down and decided to process all my images from the desert sand dunes of Death Valley National Parks.
After one hour, I had barely had one pass to remove the unwanted ones (work email, the Daily Show and checking out other photos provided the necessary distractions)
After the 2nd hour, I was working on the individual images, tweaking settings so that it looked just right
After the third hour, my brain had fried, but I had managed to pick out the images I needed out from a pile of over 200 photos, rate them, process themm, tag them and then select out the better ones destined for print or flickr uploads.

At that point, I could not handle any more of it. So I just walked away from the computer.

Processing images has been quite a chore. I have a backlog of about 3000 images waiting to get filtered, sorted, rated, processed and keyworded. And every trip I make adds 300 to 500 more images to that seemingly never-ending pile.

Atleast with Lightroom, I have a way of keeping track of what needs to be processed.

Anyways, after seeing images of a dry desert hour after hour, I decided to look into my Yellowstone folder for shots of the mist rising of the Yellowstone River in Lamar Valley on a cool summer morning. and that resulted in this.

This was shot with a telephoto lens at ISO 200, F11 and 1/100s with an underexposure of -0.7EV

Submitting for #thirstythursday
Yellowstone National Park
WY USA

from poetica del corpo

Really... what can I say?
It doesn't get much better than having the opportunity to photograph Greg.

Greg is a truly gifted artist and musician, not to mention rock climber and motorcycle lover.
A genuinely intense guy with the most character I'll probably ever see in from of my camera.

Taken during the Don Giannatti Workshop held at my studio last weekend.
http://www.lighting-essentials.com/four-umbrella-madness-shooting-with-regina-in-utah/

Yap, I can do cute too!;)

Venice beach

A ray of light under the stormy sky...

My contribution to #stormyfriday by +Reinhard Latzke and a big hello to +C. Corey Fisk, #HowWasYourDaySweetie !