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[HatTrick]

Inside the World Trade Center Memorial

 

[jerseyfinn]

Finally getting some of our recent photos processed & posted on the web.

I'm lucky enough to hook up with my son who is stationed down in Tucson AZ with the Air Force. He has a few days off & I fly out to PHX & pick him up down Tucson way where we hoof it back north to Flagstaff/Sedona environs to get in a couple of hikes the next two days.

Brin Mesa /Cibola Pass Trail​

I render this one B&W as I felt the image has more drama this way.

I'm working with a new P&S camera, the Canon G11. Previously, I was using a Canon G9, but the technology tweaks in the G11 compel me to become an early adopter ( then again, I also continue to try to resist the urge to purchase a DSLR kit & this Canon should hold me at bay for a couple of more years -- I like traveling light ).

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Bear Mountain Trail​

This trail is a kick-in-the-butt for someone like myself who lives at sea level & has spent but one night at altitude ( usually I wait a few days to do this trail, but with my son's limited time, it was now or never ). Then again the view is definitely worth the pain navigating the 600 feet to the top of this first mesa ( all told, you gain about 1400 to the top of the final mesa which is not in this image & lies some two miles of hiking ahead).

This is a pano shot consisting of 3 images rendered in Photoshop. As others note, panos can be a tough post-processing mission. My Canon ( both G9 & G11 ) have a pano mode where you snap one image & can see the edge of first shot in your LCD screen to align the next shot properly. This often helps with the process, but issues can still remain relating to exposure as you sweep across the view & the light subtly changes.

This shot was not taken using that pano-mode in the camera.

I simply lock my elbows and snap one image without moving and I pan for the next shot keeping in mind where my edge was in the image ( best to overlap by @ 1/3 ). I also used an AE lock feature so that each image has the same exposure ( I metered off of the red rock cliffs ). This was also mid-morning when the sun is still not too high in the sky ( the sun is off of my left shoulder & just slightly behind me in this image ). This keeps the sky of a relatively balanced light quality. Assuming that you kept relatively level as you shot, the problem with panos then becomes how the software program handles the differences in light and luminosity across the combined image. In my image, there exists a dark band to the left of the cliff which is due to this effect. It's not too noticeable, & I can clean that up in Photoshop ( requires patience as you fish around & adjust opacity, hues etc. -- something you do on a cold winters day with time on your hands ).

The full gallery of shots can be found in my Sedona Hiking Trails gallery.

Hope you enjoy them.

Barry

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Point at Poipu during Hurricane Felicia - August 2009

Well, it really wasn't a hurricane. Felicia started breaking up before it reached Hawai'i, and by this time it was a tropical depression. The day was gray, rainy, and very blustery. I took this picture from the lanai of our unit, and I used an infrared film effect to help carry the stormy atmosphere.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

DW at Polihale

with Ni'ihau and Lehu'a on the horizon.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Wyllie Beach - Kaua'i

 

[dougp26364]

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Moloa'a Beach - Kaua'i

 

[cotraveller]

The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

 

[geoand]

Cotraveller, what an incredible view. Thanks for the photo.

 

[geoand]

Barry, those are some beautiful shots that you took in AZ. How fortunate you were to be able to capture a picture of Faye in Faye Canyon!!!!!! :rofl:

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Catching a wave at Po'ipu

I took this pic from grounds at the Marriott Waihoi

 

[FlyerBobcat]

Catching a wave at Po'ipu

I took this pic from grounds at the Marriott Waihoi

Steve,

Very nice shot...

What is that in the picture on the very left side, between the upper & lower wave?

 

[mtngal]

Barry - thanks for the link to your Sedona pictures. We're heading there in a couple of days and I've been having a tough time coming up with which of the many hikes might be fun to do (and to take photographs on). You've given me some good ideas.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Steve,

Very nice shot...

What is that in the picture on the very left side, between the upper & lower wave?

I hadn't noticed it until you pointed it out. It looks to me a bit like a monk seal pup.

 

[FlyerBobcat]

I hadn't noticed it until you pointed it out. It looks to me a bit like a monk seal pup.

That's neat.... I was wondering if you thought it might be a pup.

Hardly not this one that I grabbed a shot of on that same beach.... (Still wanna' go back...)


Thanks for all your great pics....

 

[Mosca]

Snatched this with the P&S at the ND/UConn game yesterday:

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

It's been too long with no activity in this thread.

Entiat Winter Morning

Here's a shot of the Entiat River I took last week. This is taken from a bluff overlooking the river in the town of Entiat, about one-quarter mile above the confluence with the Columbia River and about 40 miles south of Lake Chelan.

 

[easyrider]

Steve,

Very nice shot...

What is that in the picture on the very left side, between the upper & lower wave?

It looks like a surfer dude duck diving a wave to me.

 

[jerseyfinn]

As soon as I see the beach chairs, I knew you were at Ocean Pointe. I especially like this sunset shot of the birds on the beach. The POV and DOF really frame the gulls nicely. The light & action is perfect -- great shot!

Barry

 

[jerseyfinn]

Barry, those are some beautiful shots that you took in AZ. How fortunate you were to be able to capture a picture of Faye in Faye Canyon!!!!!! :rofl:

Thanks geo.

My nickname for her is "Princess Grace" as she tends to stumble on level ground let alone traversing a trail like this one. I always worry a bit but she manages to follow along safely. Too bad the photos don't have sound clips as you would be able to hear my wife complaining as she struggles up the slope. But she too knows that the reward is in the journey and in the view.

Barry

 

[Mosca]

Barry, I shoot my panos the same way you do, by figuring where to point. This is a 6 shot pano, stitched and corrected for distortion. It sort of needs a bigger stage, Photobucket shrinks them to max width of 1092:

But notice the sky in the middle vs on the edges.

 

[Mosca]

 

[Karen G]

What you can do with a bunch of canoes

This cool scuplture sits in front of the new Vdarra Hotel in City Center, Las Vegas.

 

[billymach4]

 

[billymach4]