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Daily Images by Kevin Raber

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Some Where In Australia

Opal Mine, Cooper Pedy S.A.

This shot I found while going through my digital albums and I would have by passed it most likely but I kept coming back to it. This is an opal mind in the middle of no where Australia. Driving back from Red Center we were going down one of these roads where you could tie the steering wheel down and read a novel. Long and straight. All along this long stretch were old machines and piles of dirt. I learned that this is an opal mining areas. So, eventually we stopped so I could be the tourist and this is what I saw. The sky was dramatic and colors and landscape kind of strange. It’s like a tourist trap but no one was there. Anyway it was pretty cool to learn how they mine opal and see such a landscape.

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Big Old Yellow Truck

Old Truck at Gravel Pit, Noblesville, IN

Last summer on an evening with not much to do my friend and shooting partner set out to find a picture.  I knew of a gravel pit as they are called here and we went to shoot there.  The sky was changing rapidly with an approaching storm and things just fell into place.  We got lots of good images.  I worked this one on the ipad doing  bunch of stuff to it.  Kind of looks like it survived a nuclear attack.  Sometimes you can find old things and just have fun taking pictures of them.

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Old Truck

Old truck in the Palouse

The Palouse, you have heard me speak about it many times before.  Lots of old and abandoned things in the Palouse, hoes, cars and trucks.  This is one of those trucks.  I found this in the back of an old gas station.  The gas station sits on this gentlemen’s farm and he restored it to look like the old ones that were seen across America.  This person collects old cars and trucks and has dozens on his property.  This one is an old GMC and caught my eye and the lens of me camera.  Color, rust and symmetry.  Some good elements.

 

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Making It Look Different

Chicago Pigeons - Sketcher

One of the things photographers are doing  lot of these days is taking normal pictures and using apps on their iPhones and iPads making them look different.  I will admit I am guilty of this too, but I believe an image needs to be able to work without a lot of special effects and textures and so forth.  Granted there is an occasional image that works well but a good image with good subject, and composition will always win out.  Plus after a while all of this fancy effects becomes contrived and overused.  Today though I am showing an image that I ran through a new app on my MAC.  It was 99 cents and it is called Photo Sketcher and it does some cool stuff.  Above is the page from it and below is the original.  The original is  stung in its own right but the sketcher one works well too.  What do you think?

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Nature Takes Over

Nature Takes Over - Train Car - Noblesville, IN

Kind of cool how mother nature in all her ways eventually reclaims things and takes over.  Nothing is more evident than this shot of the side of s rusty train car with a small plant beginning to grow out of it.  Shot with a P65+ there is a load of detail in this shot. I made a large 30×40 inch print of this and it is stunning.

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Rickets Glen

Rickets Glen, Pennsylvania

Tucked away in the mountains of central Pennsylvania is a small state park known as Rickets Glen.  Literally out in the middle of no where this park boast 26 waterfalls and all of them are beautiful.  It’s a two day adventure to visit Rickets Glen and shoot these falls.  Obviously better to do in the Fall with colors changing.  Here is one image expect to see more.

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Artsy Tree In San Miguel

Tree in courtyard at abandonded hotel, San Miguel, Mexico

So very now and then I get really deep into the photo apps on the iPhone and iPad, and I see how far I can take an image to be artsy.  This is an image I shoot with a Phase One IQ180 in San Miguel, Mexico.  I had the image in a gallery on my iPad and I just started using a bunch of apps and came up with this as a final.  It’s a tree in a courtyard of a hotel that is half constructed and then abandoned.  I will be leading a workshop in San Miguel this March for Phase One camera systems owners.  You can find out info about this by CLICKING HERE.

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London – Low Angle

It's London

I love London, but I love copenhagen, Barcelona and many more cities also.  This shot was made in a small place where there are these array of small fountains.  I played here for a while trying slow shutter speeds, longer lenses etc until I came up with this shot which I really like.  So today here is LOndon Bridge and fountains.

 

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A Different View

Canyonlands area near Moab, UT

This is a shot of the Canyonlands outside of Moab.  This is a pretty typical shot and a lot of people could take this shot.  Fortunately for me that day this storm rolled in and I was shooting from the same height as the storm and thus I had these cool grey clouds on the top of my image yet sunshine in the canyon.  This is one of a series of very dramatic pictures taken during a 15 minute window of the storm.  Sometimes you get your best pictures in not so desirable condition.