From the monthly archives: November 2011

Life’s a birch

By On November 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

These trees were heavily stressed during the freak snowstorm last month. I’ve been waiting for a still enough day to photograph them, and finally got one today. The light wasn’t perfect, so I shot three exposures for HDR. After processing with Photomatix, I made a few additional tweaks to boost the contrast [...]

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Bare trees

By On November 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There are a million variations of this shot. Every kid with a camera snaps something like this among his first images, but there’s something about those last few moments of sunlight in the woods that make these pictures irresistible.

Perhaps the best I’ve ever seen of an image like this was in [...]

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E-Z Rider

By On November 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment

My nephew and I took a Thanksgiving ATV ride in the woods behind his house.

Originally uploaded to Flickr by Frank Capria

Also at Google+ Random 365 #33

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Beach pines in black and white

By On November 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

These pine branches were just off the beach near Freeport in the Bahamas. The light was really harsh, and even though the glare in the water is a little clipped towards the center, I still like it. It’s probably not a shot I’m going to print and hang on the wall, but [...]

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Counting the crows

By On November 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Sometimes it’s what I was doing just before or just after I snapped the picture that elicits an emotional response in me. I caught this just before embarking on a customer visit to some Hollywood editors. It was my first time seeing them since my surgery, and I was really touched by [...]

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