Tonight (January 3), I gave a presentation on “High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging” to the Colorado Urban Wildlife Photo Club. My presentation notes may be found on the Files page. I have also created HDR processing notes. This document details the workflow steps that I use with Lightroom, Photomatix and Photoshop when processing HDR images. This document may also be found on the Files page. Thank you to the Colorado Urban Wildlife Photo Club for giving me the opportunity to give this presentation.
On New Year’s Day, Susan flew back to London. After taking her to the airport, I headed to the gym. For aerobic exercises, I make use of the cross trainer. When in use, the instrumentation has this really cool heart.
Heart In The Gym
After working out, I noticed icy reflections in the parking lot. There was still plenty of ice remaining from the last snow storm a couple of weeks ago. The surrounding buildings reflected sunlight into the ice.
Reflection In Ice
Where the water had refrozen, the ice trapped air bubbles and formed intricate patterns.
Ice In The Parking Lot
I found this huge patch of ice that reflected surrounding buildings and the blue sky.
Icy Parking Lot
After much procrastination, I have decided to resurrect a new Project 52 for 2012. I had so much fun with the project in 2010, that I decided to do this again this year.
Wednesday night a snow storm moved in… Just in time for a White Christmas. At the parking garage, traffic was moving slowly along I-25.
The next morning, the train pulled in to the station…
Walking down to work, I passed these red umbrellas at Tokyo Joe’s.
Returning from work that evening, the street lights lit up the snow in the parking lot.
Last night I purchased some bell peppers for salad ingredients. Usually, I try to find some peppers with interesting shapes so that I can attempt to do make an image like Edward Weston’s “Pepper Number 30”. After some breakfast inspiration:
Time for some more iPhone fun…
Exploring some more, I noticed this interesting arrangement on the table:
Enjoy!
Yesterday I updated the image galleries on this website with new images. Here is a sample of some of the new images. Last year I visited White Pocket, where I made the following image at sunset.
White Pocket Sunset
A summer storm passed through the metro area this year. Here is an infra red image of the storm.
Summer Storm Over The Front Range
While photographing the fall colors at the aspen forests near Beckwith Mountain, an afternoon storm passed through.
Fall Storm Over West Beckwith Pass
Sunbeams lit up the aspen trees and the rain showers. The forest became alive under an atmospheric light show.
We have several glass crystals hanging in the windows. When the sun shines through these crystals, we get many spectral patterns cast on the walls.
Our cat Jasper was so happy to go outside this Thanksgiving morning. After coming back inside I captured this image of bliss!
Later, in the evening, I made this image of Punkin.
Stayed the night in St George. Could not help visiting Zion again.
Here is another rendition of The Watchman, similar to one I made with my big camera a couple of years ago.
A monochrome shot made near the campsite.
