Showing posts with label waterfall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waterfall. Show all posts

July 24, 2011

Iceland - Day One - Private Tour

Iceland is an incredible place so full of diversity.



I am sitting in a conference room on a peninsula on the West side of the island in The Hotel Budir, which is fantastic. We arrived about 9:30pm and had a wonderful dinner. White linen table clothes, wine paired dinner menu and there I was in wet jeans from walking through the recently rained on grass from the last photographic stop.

Today started by going to The Harp, a concert hall. The building is a modern architectural wonder with so much glass. It was great to photograph. So many wonderful angles and lines. Next we captured a few images of a dry docked ship, which seemed a bit more like we were actually in Iceland. Next we headed out of town. I can't tell you really where we were , I can only say that we took great photos. I even got my big girl Nikon out a few times. Einar is doing a terrific job for our private tour, there is only 3 of us. It is wonderful to be given this opportunity. The best part being able to say, "Stop Here!!!" and we do. ;-)

As I sit and blog I am looking out a room full of windows facing the east. It is still twilight and I don't know if it will ever get completely dark. I can still here the gulls calling and the ocean is mostly calm but still crashing in. This location reminds me of the Falkland Islands very much. So full of rocks grasses, lichens and mosses. The farms are great too. So much to look at as we drove today.

I am truly exhausted and some of us want to get up or at least check out the light at 4:15 for sunrise. That won't be happening for me as it is 1:19 as I type this. Therefore I will post a few lightly processed images and call it a night.







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July 17, 2011

Horsetail Falls - Columbia River Gorge

Hipstamatic Magic
Recently I have been spending time with my friend Mark hiking a couple of the trails in the Columbia Gorge. Mark has lived in the area for a longtime and knows the Gorge well. He takes the steep trails while I meander my way through the waterfalls stopping to take photos. I have had difficulty processing the waterfalls to look like more than just a white stripe among the green.
When capturing today's image I couldn't see a thing on the screen because the light was so bright. However I snapped the camera anyway with some faith. I was pleasantly surprised at the magical moment. I love the way the sun's rays are almost kissing the water. Obviously  the waterfall isn't the star of the show but without the mist created by it the photo wouldn't be possible.
Thanks Mark for exposing me to magically moments like this!

I used PhotoForge Watercolor to create the sparkle in the water. I hope you like it as much as I do!



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May 31, 2011

Columbia River Gorge Waterfall


The Columbia River Gorge is full of spectacular waterfalls. Yesterday the Gorge was also packed with people. All the parking lots were overflowing and the trails were a constant flow of people and their dogs. I found myself a quiet corner along the water and took a variety of images.
This is a 8 image ProHDR stitch. I wanted to use a other HDR cameras to compare how they each would capture the variety of greens, but the sun kept peeking out of the clouds which caused the water to lose all the details because it was totally blown out. So I couldn't complete my experiment. Maybe next time.

ProHDR
AutoStitch
Filterstorm
Impression