As I was driving around Colorado last week looking for fall color I kept thinking to myself “you know, I’m really not a landscape photographer.” And the truth is I had way more fun shooting the old cars at the Pioneer History Museum in Gunnison. Though I added a lot to my hood ornament collection… Continue reading 1923 Nash Roadster
Fall Color Colorado
I kicked off the fall color season with a trip to the San Juan Mountains in SW Colorado. Things were not quite as far along this year as in years past but still plenty of color. I used to always go the first week of October but found too many bare trees in the high country… Continue reading Fall Color Colorado
Jackrabbit
It has been another week of culling the files and looking for keepers that I could apply new post processing skills to. I came across this handsome fellow at Arches National Park a few years back and was taken by the morning light shining through his ears. The raw image was pretty bland and didn’t… Continue reading Jackrabbit
Singer Sewing Machine
When I saw this sewing machine in a small town museum I just went ho-hum another Singer, click, click. It wasn’t until I got to editing the images that I noticed the Egyptian motif. So I cropped in to focus on the decal. I little research informed me that Singer had many different decals to… Continue reading Singer Sewing Machine
Turtle
I found this turtle at the Albuquerque Botanic Gardens back in May. I have begun the process of culling this year’s photos in order to free up more disc space. For post processing I had to do a little cropping to focus attention on this turtle on not the one behind him. The image also… Continue reading Turtle
Cape Blanco Light
I spent most of my photography time this week working on updating my portfolio…not quite finished but stay tuned. This is one I added from a few years ago. I had gotten up at the crack of dawn to arrive at the lighthouse to photograph it in early morning light only to find myself at… Continue reading Cape Blanco Light
TX Ranch Truck
Gotta love the old trucks you find on New Mexico’s back roads. I found this one in a little wide spot in the road called Farley which I fear is destined for a future as a ghost town if it is not there already. Definitely off the beaten track! This truck had been there so… Continue reading TX Ranch Truck
Yellow Rose
This week’s field trip was to the newly opened Santa Fe Botanical Gardens where these yellow roses with the unlikely name of “Julia Child” were the stars of the show. I shot this at f/16 to get most of the flower in focus then in post processing added a Gaussian Blur filter and masked out… Continue reading Yellow Rose
Sunflower – Nik vs. Topaz Restyle
Here are two versions of the same image. The first one was processed using Nik Color Effex Pro and the second with the new Topaz Restyle software. In the Nik version I used the detail extractor, brilliance/warmth and added a dark vignette. In Topaz I selected one of the many color palettes in the Moody… Continue reading Sunflower – Nik vs. Topaz Restyle
Heron
In trying to discover whether this was an egret or a heron I learned that egrets are part of the larger heron family. So it might be an egret but I am sure it is a heron! This is just a grab shot that turned out well. I had been to the Mad River Beach… Continue reading Heron