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[jules40]

 

[jules40]

My kid, Joe.

 

[Mosca]

These are Disney '08, taken with the Canon G9 (not the new 40D). I paid attention to what I've been reading, about how to make pictures more interesting, and here are some of the results:

Shooting up at the skylight of Disney's Polynesian during a Florida thunderstorm

Universal Studios, 10:30 AM

Disney's Grand Floridian, through the monorail window

 

[Mosca]

DGF from the T&T Center monorail station

The Hulk at Universal's Islands of Adventure (hard to get that shot with a digital!)

My BIL, posing at Islands of Adventure

 

[Mosca]

And, I finally got the new camera! I took all of about a dozen shots, and my 17yo daughter asked to see it... and I didn't get it back for the rest of the evening!

She takes one heck of a good picture. Here is the neighbor's pup:

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Wenatchee River, Leavenworth, WA

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Point Sur - California Hwy 1

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Columbia River Gorge near Malaga, Washington

Most references to the Columbia River Gorge usually are for the portion of the lower Columbia River where the river forms the boundary between Washington and Oregon. More accurately, the Columbia River Gorge is the entire section of the Columbia Plateau in which the river has carved a deep channel into the elevated Plateau. That is almost the entire length of the river from just south of the US-Canada border to the mouth of the Wilamette Valley near Portland.

The portion of the Gorge lying on the east side of the Cascades, where the Columbia River flows almost due south, has marvelous cliffs, hills, palisades, and grasslands. It's mostly arid desert and grassland, except at the highest elevations. There are large areas of desolate and undeveloped land where you are alone with the wind, the trees and boards, the hills and cliffs, and your thoughts.

This photo was taken late Tuesday afternoon along the river near Malaga, a bit south of Wenatchee.

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For those interested in natural history:

The palisades on the far side of the river were carved by the Lake Missoula floods. The top of the flood water was just about the tops of the cliffs, just below the grasslands on the tops of the hills. The cliffs are 500 - 600 feet high; that's how deep the water was in this area during the floods.

The undulations in the ground surface in the middle of the picture are gravel ripples created by the floodwaters. About fifteen miles downstream from this location is a spot with similar gravel ripples, except those ripples are close to 50 feet high!!!

 

[swift]

Vikingsholm Castle

 

[geoand]

 

[geoand]

 

[Kay H]

Geo,
I'm so glad to see that you have all your ducks (geese) in a row.

All kidding aside, I loooooove the pictures everyone has submitted.

 

[swift]

My daughter (on the left) and her friend on the beach.

 

[geoand]

 

[swift]

 

[icydog]

Take away the beautiful surroundings and substitute a small pond and you have the view from my deck. I never think of geese as pretty anymore.

 

[icydog]

THIS IS A GREAT PHOTO. THE COMPOSITION IS FABULOUS. CAN I GET A COPY OF IT? THANKS

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Colockum Pass Road, Columbia River Gorge, Washington

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Burned Tree overlooking Columbia River Gorge

 

[Brett]

On the road to Colockum Pass, Columbia River Gorge, Washington[/SIZE]

nice landscape pic
I don't have open landscape scenery like that but I am close to a Chesapeake beach like this -

(three bracket exposures combined)

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I don't have open landscape scenery like that but I am close to a Chesapeake beach like this -

(three bracket exposures combined)

Thanks. One of my favorite landscape settings is late afternoon sun, slanting low on summer grasslands in the western US. With the proper conditions, the yellow hues really stand out.

I was totally fascinated by that when I moved to California in September of 1973 and came over the Altamont Pass into the San Francisco Bay late in the afternoon. I never before knew brown grass could be so attractive. I've been drawn to those settings ever since.

The Wenatchee River photo I posted previously is a high dynamic range merge of three exposures. Were I taking that shot again, I would have expanded the bracketing a bit more, since I still didn't capture the full range of light and dark in the scene.

Wenatchee River, Leavenworth, WA

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Ruby Lake Resort - British Columbia

Taken the same time as this previously posted photo:

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Sunset on Horseshoe Bay, Vancouver, BC

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Springtime on Ocean View Boulevard, Pacific Grove, CA

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Deception Pass, San Juan Islands, Washington