Memories of Spring
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Now that we are in summer. Here is an image from the Tulip show taken during the early days of spring.
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Gilroy Drive-By
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This drive-by was taken along Highway 101 down around Gilroy. This was taken a few months ago when the hills were still green.
Wild Morning Glory
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One from the archives taken up in the Marin Headlands.
Cantor Entrance
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Work has been very busy but I am going to catch up on my posting. I hope to go out and collect new images this weekend. Here is a composite of the door to the Cantor Museum in Stanford along with a Sunol shot.
Rippling
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With no new images this weekend, I decided to create one.
Feeling Blah
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This seal summarizes my month of June. I have been out shooting only twice and done a lot of laying around as well. This is an elephant seal molting. She is fine but sure looks bad.
Pt Reyes #14
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This is one of the many historic dairies up in Pt Reyes dating back well over a century. These dairies are part of a land trust that strives to
keep enough dairies around. The business for dairies requires a critical mass in the local area for all dairies to survive.
Lupine
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This has been a long week so no posting. This has been a long dry spell. I dug into the archives for a Lupine shot. I hope to go out shooting and gather new material.
Pt Reyes #13
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This is another from Pt Reyes at the derelict farm. I read Edward Winkleman’s blog and found a wonderful video. If one of my images can provide the same impact and emotion as this man’s singing, I will die happy. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA.
Pt Reyes #12
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I will be sticking with the derelict farm up in Pt Reyes for a while longer. Hopefully, I will go out this weekend and collect more material.
Pt Reyes #11
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This is another from the derelict farm up in Pt Reyes.
Pt Reyes #10
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Pt Reyes #9
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Pt Reyes #8
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Seagulls Multiplied
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First off, this one turned out a lot more realistic than I expected. If you look close, you should be able to see artifacts that it is a montage. I had 10 different shots of this lone gull with other flying gulls and solo. The sequence starts from calms, to swell, to wave breaking. I upgraded to CS3. So, I let it auto-align my 10 images combined into a layer stack. That took about 45 minutes. I tried the auto exposure for the layer stack but that was too real looking. Instead, I used undo back to the auto-align step. Then, I masked in all the aligned layers with a mask to keep the bird on the beach intact. Then, I copied the layer stack again to work on the breaking surf. While masking in the breaking surf, I found a new Blending Mode in CS3 called Lighten Color. Most layers used the Lighten Color blending mode.
Pt Reyes #7
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Taken on the derelict farm up in Point Reyes. This was surrounded by a large pile of tangled barb wire. Too bad that there was no real keeper shot for the barb wire.
Sand Patterns
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Geary Road
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You know it was just a matter of time before I tried an infrared drive-by.
Sunol #1
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Pt Reyes #6
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Decided to break things up a little and post a grasses shot. I thought that the grasses were gorgeous but I have not mastered how to present that in a photo.
Pt Reyes #5
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Pt Reyes #4
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A derelict farm up in Pt Reyes. It is government owned and left to fall down.
Historic "A" Farm, Pt Reyes
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While up in Pt Reyes for the weekend, we were given a tour of the Historic "A" Dairy farm. The family was very generous to let our photo class tour their working dairy farm. Here the cows were waiting to be milked.
Pt Reyes #3
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Another from the Pt Reyes workshop taken on Drakes Beach.
Point Reyes #2
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Of course for my long landscape photography weekend, I forgot my tripod. So, I put the camera into shutter priority and cranked up the ISO. I used my prime 135mm f/2 lens almost exclusively. The lens is very fast so I lost virtually no images to shake.
Point Reyes #1
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This weekend was spent up in Point Reyes with a Photo Alliance workshop. Had a nice weekend with lots of feedback on my new Contemplations portfolio. I will have to process the input but it was certainly not what I hoped.
