Category: HDR

  • Grand Canyon Golden Falls

    Grand Canyon Golden Falls

    If you’re going to carry a tripod all the way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you may as well use it for something interesting. This is Angel Falls. And it is spectacular. You get to climb up behind the water and look out over the alien landscape. To get some idea of just…

  • Tutorial: HDR Scary Tree

    Tutorial: HDR Scary Tree

    Let’s try something new. Here’s a nice picture of a scary tree guarding a sleeping princess.     Wanna know how I took the shot from this bland image to the dark image above? Watch the tutorial and enjoy!

  • Reaching for you

    Reaching for you

    I recently went for a stroll in a very damp, tumbling down forest. The whole thing looked like something from a movie. I think there were even those strange slithering creatures just out of sight. The recent storms clearly were encouraging everything to grow at a startling rate. That and die, and rot, and transmute…

  • The Coming Storm

    The Coming Storm

    Deanna and I hiked Mission Peak again. Thanks to the clocks springing forward we made it all the way to the top and some of the way down before it became necessary to use flash-lights. For once, we also got to see the sunset. The bad news was that the storm was coming in fast.…

  • Mission Impossible

    Mission Impossible

    Deanna clearly hates me. She’s booked us to spend 4 days hiking the Grand Canyon. As far as I can tell it’ll be a lot of downhill, a little flat, and then the mother of all up-hills. So I need to practice. The worst hike near the house is Mission Peak; it’s a 2,500ft rise…