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Ok, so I’m behind in posting. It’s been an incredibly busy couple of months. I needed a break from work stuff, so thought I’d process a couple images from my HDR (high dynamic range) workshop with Trey Ratcliff in Austin, TX in early January 2010. The workshop was held in the amazing Driskill Hotel. The [...]

Danielle makes some awesome tasting and looking desserts. She reads a blog that has the most amazing food photography. Sorry – don’t have it right now. Maybe Danielle can post a link in the comments. We started out this morning on a run to find almond flour, which we found at the Whole Foods store.
She [...]

I grew up close to the Covered Bridges of Madison County near Des Moines, Iowa. Growing up I really didn’t appreciate them till after I’ve been away for quite a few years. Anyway, back in Iowa over Thanksgiving, we traveled to see the Bridges of Madison County.
These are perfect for using HDR photography. The image [...]

It was a great morning to walk around the Collierville Square (Collierville, TN) and take a few HDR images. The first one below is of the little cabin on the square. It is all decked out for Christmas. We’ll have to go one night to see the lights on. You can see more images from [...]

What you say? A car on a boat? Actually, the boat is the Freedom of the Seas and the car was on the Promenade. It’s a RAW image that I did a pseudo HDR processing by taking into Photomatix and tone mapped. It really brought out the shadow detail.
The processing also brought out the grunge [...]

As we were leaving Port Canaveral during our June 2009 cruise, I was standing out on the balcony (with camera, of course) and saw an interesting view of the Brevard County Sheriff’s boat. I won’t give all the details here, other than to say it was shot in RAW, then brought into Photoshop, used the [...]

Our cruise late June of this year included a stop at St. Thomas, where we took a side trip to St. John. I had about an hour to triage e-mails, which was good.
This photo was taken from a roadside stop in St. John, looking over a bay and up at some beautiful homes. The D300 [...]

The photo below was taken at Grand Harbor Marina in Pickwick, TN in mid-May 2009. … I’d like to put together a whole gallery of boat and marina photos — I have hundreds of them!

Lynette & I have started our cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas ship. This is one massive boat! We checked in to our Jr. Suite #9348. Below are a couple photos of the room. We are really happy with the room and the size, which is about the same as a decent hotel [...]

We got up bright and early today to do a drive on the Schnebly Hill Road. This is a pretty tough road to navigate for passenger cars and we were grateful to have a 4-wheel drive SUV rental. The first stop made was at the Vista — the road was gated off beyond that point. [...]