Camera’s View

Whenever I get a chance to visit the Napa Valley region of California. I try to stop at V. Sattui Winery located in St. Helena.
In addition to decent wines and a great little deli, V. Sattui Winery has a really neat stone Winery building which, to my eye, is a great photographic subject.
The first image, [...]

I was just curious to see what would happen if I took a single image that was processed as a jpeg right out of my camera, as shown here (untouched by Photoshop or Lightroom )
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and I then processed with Photomatix using tone mapping - results shown here -

and then to [...]

Based on a suggestion of a friend, I decided to take another look at the illusion I was trying to create in the previous post. What I was trying to imply within the second image ( see previous post), was an illusion of a pending storm or a storm that had just left the area.
The [...]

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 [...]