Restoring Hipstamatic Paks

Utah, southwest of Zion

I almost lost it today when I discovered my Limited Addition Hipsta Paks once again would not restore to my new phone. I was so frustrated because this happened last November and I had to rebuy the Retro Pak One and Two because for some reason my iPhone couldn't restore some of my favorites including the popular Dream Canvas.

This time however I was pleasantly surprised to find great help from Hipstamatic. I am so gald they improved their support.

Please click on the link below if you are having trouble with restoring yourself. When I followed the procedure carefully Hipsta was restored completely.

Link to Restoring Hipstamatic Paks


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Nik's Snapseed - a go to app

After yesterdays post I started looking through more of my images of the last drive through Zion. It seems that once I arrived in Las Vegas the next day and got the iP4S I have abandoned so many wonderful photos that deserve to be posted that I had taken with the iP4.

I hope to move more of them to my new iPad so I can start my processing workflow once again. Seems like I have been doing most of the processing lately on my iPhone because, well, it seems easier.

Today's image was processed with Snapseed, including the black and white conversion. Snapseed is becoming a favorite app now that they included sharpening and structure. I have always liked the invisible sliders and the ability to see the before and after, and of course the u-point technology. Nik has done a great job for those of us who love to process with our Apple Devices.

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Autumn in Zion

The first sign of Autumn in Zion

Autumn arrived in Zion about 3 weeks late this year. So I only caught the first of the color at the end of my trip. Just before the tunnel, when coming from the east, is a great pull out where the water has craved great grooves into the sandstone. The combo of the red tree and the lines caught my attention. Miss being there...lots!

ProHDR

Snapseed

ArtistaOil

Blender

Impression

I spent the evening setting up my apps on my new iPad2. Yes I have been working on the first generation iPad all this time. I just synced it and all seems to be organized as I set it up in iTunes. Now I need to decide if I am going to update my MacBook Pro to Lion so I can start to use the iCloud. Along with that I would need to learn Pages if I want my docs to sync with iCloud. Seems there has been so many changes lately that I have been spending much of my time on updating the devices and learning about all the changes, and not enough time being creative. However I have got a few ideas I have been working on and will share with the students in the Whidbey Workshop next week...I can't wait!

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Benefits of Car Camping

Good Morning World

I have been doing a lot of traveling lately in my BMW X5. I took my first road trip in it to Banff and Jasper National Park, Canada in 2004.
Currently I am in Utah traveling throughout the Southwest looking for photographic locations. The great part of car camping is that I can and do park in wonderful locations. A few mornings ago I woke to this incredible scene.
The best part is that I arrived to this location on BLM land at dark and had no idea that I would be waking up to such an incredible view.
It rained hard yesterday and I spent my day trying to find an wifi hotspot that wasn't packed with people. Finally had to go to St George about 30 minutes from Zion.

Today I am on my way to the Grand Canyon North Rim. Hope to stay connected so I can continue to blog but also looking forward to just enjoying the views that this incredible land provides.

ProHDR handheld

Artista Oil

Artista Haiku

Blender

Filterstorm

Dynamic Light

Grungetastic

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Angel's Landing Lone Tree

Angel's Landing hike in Zion was one of the most memorable times on my trip. Little did I know when I crested the first major hill and saw this magnificent tree that I was only at the beginning of the most exciting leg. Seeing this tree standing proudly with the sun beams peering through it made for a glorious moment that I stopped to photograph. To make it even more surreal, a Tibetan Monk walked up to me with wonder about what I was doing; so I showed him my stitched image. To top it all off, he pulled out an iPhone from his robe and asked me in very broken English which apps he needed to be able to stitch photos together so he too could create such beauty.

Now I know I joked about putting fires out at ESP in past blog posts, but this is honestly what happened that afternoon.

I was later told that when I was busy capturing the lone tree, the monk was posing for people to take his photograph among the Oriental looking scenery on the other side of the hill. Ahhh to be able to be in two places at once.

I chose to process this image in B&W using the Dynamic Light app. I saturate the clouds for even more drama. I also added some dodging and burning with Filterstorm. The frame came from Crop'n'Frame app. I tried some other techniques to try to sharpen the limbs of the trees more since the wind was blowing slightly which cause some blurring but none of them gave me the look I need to correct the problem.

Angels Landing

The view from the top looking east.
"I am on top of the world looking down on creation...."
Angels Landing is a destination to aspire to. When I left this morning to go on this hike, I had no idea that I would be in for such an adventure. The hike is difficult to describe in words so I am going to be posting a few photos tonight to show you how incredible this place is.

I was fascinated by the number of people willing to venture beyond what some would call impossible. An amazing variety of people made it to the top:grandmas, a women who had 4 knee surgeries, 13 yo boys bragging that it took then only 14 minutes, a women with perfectly painted long fake nails, and high school and college students by the ruck loads. The trail at times was continual line of ant like creatures.
Looking up to the peak where Angels Landing is.

The first 2 hours of the trail was a switch back hike that most hikers would consider strenuous. The last 1/2 mile was even more intense with a knife edge scramble that had a 2000 foot drop on both sides and at times was only big enough for one person. Thank goodness for the chain railing that I continually used to pull myself up and balance with. 

I frequently reminded myself to look where I wanted to go and not where I didn't. Most of the trail was slippery sandy sandstone, while other parts were icy and snowy.
 
Part of me never wanted to leave this spiritual place where the turkey vultures soar just feet above my head. Another part of my couldn't wait to get down so I can share this story and a few of my photos to hopefully inspire others to face their fears in order to experience this place of beauty and wonderment.
I am happily on top of the world.

Some quotes I heard at the top today: "I just don't want to think about it anymore." "I almost threw up twice." "I crawled on all fours." "That is the scariest thing I have ever done." "If my mom knew what I did today she would kill me." "I was just one step away from death."

Looking down from the top, Yes I walked along the knife edge.

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Always look behind you...

Yesterday's image was of the sunrise from the bridge. Today I went back to the same location but this time I went to the waters edge below the bridge. After I spend some time capturing and processing a 12 image stitch, I turned around and saw all this color in the water. It was a much better photograph. So today's lesson is don't forget to look behind you, it might be the best photograph.


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Zion Sunset

Sadly, I said my goodbyes to my iPhoneography companions this morning. However before I left I was convinced that I needed to change my plans and instead of continuing south towards Joshua Tree, I needed to head east and go to Zion National Park.
This is my first visit here as a photographer. I remember driving through when my daughters were still small enough to be entertained by watching Disney videos on a portable TV. How nice it would have been to have an iPad back then.
I am so grateful to David and Harry for pointing me in this direction and for giving me so much input on all the best places to go. Thanks you two!

This is an image at sunset. I arrived about 30 minutes later then I wanted because I wasn't aware that I had changed to Mountain time.

This image was captured with ProHDR and processed in Filterstorm.

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