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Big Ass Yellow Truck

Big Yellow and Rusty Truck

So, what do you do when you go to an industrial site (Gravel Quarry) and want to make the place look gritty and sort of apocalyptic?  You use a good camera and some of the app you can find on the iPad.  This shot was of a big old dump truck at the quarry, obviously not used much.  I shot a variety of angles of it and this is the one I selected.  I like the flat tire, low angle, and the hose coming off of it.  I pulled the image into the iPAd and used SNapSpeed to adjust the drama, grit, and selective colors.  Enjoy!

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Old Boat

Boat At Seattle Maritime Museum

One day while visiting Seattle I decide that everything I shot I would do in HDR.  I also decided to do this technique with the gritty look.  Needed to get it out of my system I suppose.  So, this was shot of an old boat at a maritime museum with three different exposures.  They were then blended in photomatix.

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Machine #1

Some Kind Of Machine - Gravel Pit, Indiana

A few weeks ago I spent a few hours ay a local gravel pit right before a thunderstorm .   The light was beautiful and there was all sort of things to shoot.  This shot was originally made on a GH2.  I imported the photo into the iPad and worked on in SnapSeed a great app to manipulate images.  I wanted to portray a kind of scaryy, abandoned what is this machine look.  I also cropped it tight and almost square.  I added some tonality to it also.  So, What is IT?

 

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Chicago Building

Building - Chicago, IL

Working for Phase One I host and lead photo workshops all over the world. During our recent workshop PODAS we concentrated on Architecture Photography. We shot a lot of building and this is one of them. I like the composition with foreground as well as the reflection. It was shot with an IQ180 (80  megapixel) camera and perspective was corrected in Capture One. Then I played a bit with the image on the iPad before publishing here.

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Big Sailboat

While in San Diego I had the chance to do a lot of photography at a number of different locations. I love shooting by the waterfront and you may remember a photo of sails from a few weeks ago that was taken here. So I concentrated on looking at everything cropped and found a lot of symmetry. I shot this big sailboat that I believe was used in a movie straight on. Interesting lines and perspective here.

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Sunset Over Marathon

Sunset Marathon, FL

Last evening i was visiting some friends in Marathon, FL.   This is one of my friends that I have stayed in touch with from High School and she has been working for years in keys with Dolphin.  On the way there the sun was setting and I had my oldest son Kevin Jr. with me.  And at his urging we pulled over and did a number of captures of a most magnificent sunset.  This one shot jazzed up a bit in SnapSpeed on my iPad.  IT was a very spectacular sunset!

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Old Lady In A Hurry

One things I enjoy doing is street photography.  Shooting people and scenes while walking around a town or an area.  This shot was made in Buenos Aires and is of an hunched over lady rushing up the street and on a mission.  She was moving very fast.  I liked the wall, color of her clothing and the packages she was carrying.

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Antarctica Whaling Station

Antarctica Whaling Station, Deception Island

At one time whaling was huge industry in the Antarctica region.  Dotted across the region are old whaling stations, long abandoned where ships would bring whales that were caught, drag them ashore, butcher them and process them.  Stories of bays turning red because of all the blood abound.  Now all that’s left are rusty tanks, pumps, boilers and old building that barely stand.  Of course this is my kind of place liking decay and rust as much as I do.  Today’s image is a shot (one of hundreds) of a whaling station on Deception Island along the Antarctica Peninsula.

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Icelandic Waterfall

Waterfall - Iceland

Iceland is one of the most beautiful locations for doing landscape photography.  The vistas just keep coming at you.  Hard to describe unless you visit.  I am leading another workshop there next May and look forward to visiting and photographing there again.  The image above is the base of one of the hundreds of waterfalls that exist there.  I dragged the shutter a bit to get the feel of the water hitting the shoots then played with the image on the ipad a bit.  This was photographed with a Phase One P65+ back so I had 60 megapixels to work with.  This shot doesn’t come close to showing the detail in the images.