Camera’s View

I have found that being part of a Photo Community is a valuable resource for improving both my image capturing and post processing techniques.
I have become a daily visitor and sometimes contributor to The Radiant Vista Community.
In this post, I thought I would take you through the evolution of an image from my post processing [...]

While visiting Northern Oregon and Washington State last month, I was able to capture several lighthouses along the way.
Lewis and Clark may have been disappointed, but we were not. Despite the rumors, the weather during the time we were in Oregon was perfect.
Across the Columbia river from Astoria is Cape Disappointment, Washington.
In 1788 an English [...]

The color of water in Crater lake ( Crater Lake NP ) is hard to describe in words and taking a picture at high noon doesn’t make it any easier to capture the way it really felt in person.
I have been following various blog writings about the advantages of HDR Imaging. One of the possible [...]

Seems as if I just can not leave well enough alone.
I just returned from a two week trip around the beautiful state of Oregon and have been going over some of my images.
I no sooner got to an image of the Yaquina Head Light when I started to play around with it inside Adobe Lightroom [...]

There are not to many Lighthouses in New England that allow enough room to shoot a “contre-jour” image of a lighthouse at sunset.
Due to the erosion of the shoreline, Cape Cod Light was moved further inland in 1996, offering the opportunity to stand on the east side of the lighthouse.
A volunteer ” Lighthouse Keeper”, [...]