Snow Caps And A Merry Christmas — wk 52

December 26, 2012

Tweet The climber on our garden fence still has plenty of dried leaves hanging from the branches. Yesterday, this gave me the opportunity to try some macro shots with focus-stacking. When photographing outdoors, a slight breeze can create big issues when making a single image. After making several unsuccessful images outdoors, I decided to bring [...]

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Journey Home — wk 51

December 16, 2012

Tweet Yesterday I returned home after completing a trip that included Death Valley and Zion. After leaving Page in the rain, it soon started to snow. Then there was a section of overcast weather to Farmington. The rest of the journey to Alamosa was in snow and blizzards. After staying the night in Alamosa, I [...]

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Day Of Contrasts, Found Santa — wk 50

December 9, 2012

Tweet This morning I was greeted by a snow storm. This was the view from the hotel room. After leaving St George, I pulled over the highway for a break. Exploring some Joshua trees, I found Santa. He seemed very out of place!

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Ice Sculptures In The Platte River — wk 49

December 2, 2012

Tweet This afternoon, I headed out to Foxton, along the Platte River. At this time of the year, the sun setting on Cathedral Spires creates some interesting reflections in the river. Working along the river, I found some interesting rocks at the river bank. Here there were reflections from a rock face at the river [...]

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Spectacular Sunset Over Denver — wk 48

November 25, 2012

Tweet Yesterday the city was covered with a huge overcast cloud cover. There was a thin sliver of blue sky to the west over the mountains. This would be ideal conditions for a spectacular sunset. Having missed the sunset the previous day, I planned to take this opportunity to capture this sunset. I headed to [...]

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Fifty Shades Of Red? — wk 47

November 17, 2012

Tweet Walking to work this week, I noticed these red umbrellas at Tokyo Joe’s. The next day, I noticed that I pass by the color “red” all the way to work. So I decided, let’s make red a project for this week’s post. At the DU Light Rail station, the back panel of the bench [...]

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Icy Leaves, Variations — wk 46

November 11, 2012

Tweet Yesterday afternoon we had a light snow storm. Last night, our bird bath froze over trapping some colorful leaves below the ice. This inspired me to create some variations from my initial iPhone image. My final variation was made by processing the image several times with Snapseed. Here is the original image that I [...]

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Night Shoot At Downtown Denver — wk 45

November 4, 2012

Tweet Last night the Illuminate Workshops Meetup Group met again for the monthly night shoot. Shortly before sunset, we met in north west Denver, where we had a view overlooking downtown. The clouds in the sky would also result in a great sunset. I found this lit streetlight to include in a composition that would [...]

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