Impressionist

The aspen are changing in the Sierra... Here's an impressionist shot from Herring Creek Reservoir other day -

Cool... Clear... Water...

 

("All day I face, the barren waste, without the taste of water...")

Spring Valley Sunset...

Caliente Sunset...

Zion...

Updates...

Well, it seems I've been neglecting the blog... the big news in my photography workflow is a static spark shot from my leg into my macbook, prompting a hardware upgrade to a Lenovo T520, and a move from OSX to Ubuntu Linux (with a short stop in Windows 7 to remind me how much windows sucks - really, try Ubuntu and watch your computer fly!) As a result, I've switched from Lightroom to Bibble 5. There are good and bad points of bibble vs. lightroom (which I may try to write up at some point) but on the whole, bibble is working very well for me, and it's nice to finally be in linux full time. Now photos... here's one from Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah:

one second later...

Harbor Exit...

Santa Cruz Sunrise!

as usual, click for a larger version on the gallery site...

high sierra fall...

from the shoulder of Mt. Wheeler...

another from the Great Basin National Park...

Great Basin National Park...

Went for a stormy hike today in GBNP... (click for a larger version...)

Sunburst...

Low Country Drive...

Bridal Veil Rainbow...

Good timing in Yosemite...

Fortuitous timing allowed a chance to catch the moon rising over Half Dome, I had to setup quickly as the moon was climbing rapidly, but it all worked out...

Shot with the Canon 5D Mark II + the Canon 100-400mm L from "Tunnel View".

Some Yosemite Color...

My son and I went to Yosemite the other day... found some nice color around Siesta Lake and some aspens near Crane Flat...


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A three shot pano of Siesta Lake, stitched with Hugin.







Two bracketed frames with the DA* 16-50mm @ 16mm, f/5, blended with Enfuse (HDR).

Mountain Pano...

The mountains northwest of June Lake. Nine portrait orientation shots were stitched with hugin for this pano, the full dimensions are 15,088 x 2905 px.

Click the image below to see a 4,674 x 900 px version...

Mono Lake Sunrise Panorama...

Click to see a larger version (much larger ;-)...

Mono Lake at Sunrise II...

Here's a few more shots from sunrise the other day at Mono Lake in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains...

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Just before sunrise...



Just after...