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Road Trip

Rusted Train Car and Plant

I am on a holiday road trip to Florida to visit with family. Always good to get together for the holiday. After being cooped up on airplanes so much the last few weeks (a round trip to Australia can pretty much guarantee you’ll want a break from planes), I decided to drive. I also decided that I will make a photo essay during the trip on Waffle Houses, the famous road side restaurant at almost every interchange. I have visited four Waffle Houses so far. I’ll assemble a small essay when I get home. Quite a slice of America.

Today’s images is a fun one. I like photographing rust and decay and how nature seems to re-claim it. This image was taken of the side of a rusted out train car (box car) and in the rust this plant had started to grow. I shot this with a Phase One P65+ and it was in one of my albums on the iPhone. I then used Picture Show and did a mirror effect of the image and the above image is what I got. I like symmetry and you’ll see more images like this over time.

 

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Funky Saturday

Funky Sunset - Olympic National Park, WA

I thought I’d put something different up today.  Just that kind of the mood I am in.  This is a landscape done on a beach near Olympic National Park.  It was shot with a Phase One P65+ and then worked as an HDR from one exposure.  The Phase One camera gives you close to 15 stops dynamic range so I was able to under and over process by two stops with ease.  Brought the images together in PhotoMatix and at that point the image looked very nice.  As a matter of fact I have some large size wall shots that look great.  I had the images in my iphone gallery and was on the plane ride back from Australia and was messing with images in Picture Show app and this one came out.  So, here it is.

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Australia Gum Tree

Gum Tree - Ormiston Gorge

Seeing how today I am now in Glen Helen in the middle of the Australia outback I thought an Australian photo would be in order. This image I loved when I saw it. A simple gum tree with its bright white bark set against the red cliffs in Ormiston Gorge.

I have set my blog to automatically post for the next few days as I will be out of touch bu phone and internet. It’s good to get away. You can also follow the workshop I am leading at THE PODAS BLOG.

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Waterfalls Again – Kind Of

Waterfall Near Hoh Rain Forrest

Every year in the spring I set out on a photo trip with around 8 of my very closest photographer friends.  It’s quite an ecliptic group and we have a lot of laughs drink a lot of wine eat well and more than anything else photograph a lot.  Every year one of the guys is responsible for where we go.  It’s not an easy job as this can be a very tough group to please.  It was my responsibility this past year and we visited Olympic National Park in the state of Washington.  We stayed at three different locations and we had one heck of a good time.  Today’s photo was taken off the side of a dirt road someplace near the Hoh Rain Forrest.  If you are interested in learning to photograph waterfalls better please read this article by Mark Dubovoy.

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Svartifoss Waterfall in Iceland

Svartifoss Falls

Happy Thanksgiving Day . . . .

Getting in touch with nature and its natural wonders can be a very enlightening and relaxing experience. And there is probably nothing in nature more breathtaking than a waterfall. One such natural wonder is the Svartifoss (can you say it) waterfall, also known as the black fall. The water falls from a height of about 20 meters (60 feet) and is located in a horseshoe shaped gorge filled with dark basalt columns.  Svartifoss waterfall is located in Skaftafell National Park, in the South of Iceland. This waterfall is famous for the dark columns shaped like a hexagon; these basalt columns are what give the fall its name. They were formed from lava that slowly cooled down and crystallized in the process. The bottom of the fall is full of sharp rocks resulting from falling column sections from the back of the fall. The rate that these sections break off is faster than water can wear down the sharp edges that is why the sharp rocks seem to never disappear. The place is also surrounded by blooming wildflowers which gives it a very serene quality.

Look for more Iceland Waterfalls and landscapes as well as a soon to be published gallery on my website.

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Iceland Glacier Lagoon

Jökulsárlón - Glacier Lagoon, Iceland

Iceland is amazing.  It’s a small country and island with stunning beauty.  It is an island that where the land itself lives and breaths.  There are geo-thermal areas, volcanos, glaciers, waterfalls and overwhelming vistas.  This past summer I was leader for a Phase One PODAS workshop there and returned from the trip a ton of great images.  I’ll be sharing them here as time goes on.  Today’s image was shot at Jökulsárlón a Glacier Lagoon formed when the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier began to recede.  Icebergs calf off of the glacier and float in this lagoon eventually being washed out to sea.  Many of those end up on a black sand beach.  More on that in another post.  This shot just happened in one of those amazing moments.  I love the beam of sunlight and the blue of the icebergs.  Hope you enjoy it too. Photographed with a Phase One P65+ and 150mm lens.