picture of the day 6-21-07

From sunrise, suns...

Stone Arch Bridge

Minnehaha Falls

These are a few pictures I took of the falls yesterday.

Fun With Photoshop

Picture of the Day 4-30-07

A couple of pictures of a mushroom

This mushroom is growing on a log in our wood pile.



This picture shows the detail of the mushroom.

Damn, I'm full.

Picture of the Day 4-11-07

Photo chosen for photographic excellence photo pool

The photo titled Rum River was chosen to be showcased on a Flickr group called National Geographic - by italian people. No one is allowed to post to this group unless a moderator sees your picture on another group requests that it be uploaded. I've never had this happen before. I guess you don't have to be Italian to get invited.

Wade

fun with photo toys

My creation
Originally uploaded by serpentflame156.

Picture of the Day

I downloaded a trial version of DxO Optical Pro to try it out based on the recommendation from tvsteve. I can see some things about it that I may like, but over all, on my first opinion, is that I can adjust the images as good or better than the program can. The benefit would be in the batch fix option, but sometimes automatic level adjustment isn't the best adjustment. That's the negatives, but for positives, I found that some of the softening techniques and film grains were fun. I'll have to explore the program much more in depth, and see what she can really do.


This is the original picture before I applied any adjustments or filters.

Here it's been run through DxO. Interesting.

This one was also "fixed" in DxO. I can see some improvements.

Let thy light chrystalize itself...

High altar of the Gnostic Mass.

clear blue skies

clear blue skies
Originally uploaded by serpentflame156.

This picture reminds me of a Pink Floyd album.

rum river

rum river
Originally uploaded by serpentflame156.

I love taking nature photagraphy. This shot was taken just as the sun was beginning to set over the Rum River. The colors were amazing...making the drab dregs of winter come alive.

mother nature's crown

mother nature's crown
Originally uploaded by serpentflame156.

After warm weather melted all the ice, the rivers rose. Then the temperatures dropped back into freezing and these ice shelves were left behind. Gotta love spring in MN.

sunset

sunset
Originally uploaded by serpentflame156.

Star filter at it's finest.

star light star bright

star light star bright
Originally uploaded by serpentflame156.

The sun almost fully set over a small pond in Ramsey.

we're Canadian, eh.

we're Canadian, eh.
Originally uploaded by serpentflame156.

I love this shot. They were just hanging out on a small island at sunset in a small lake in Ramsey. They were making quite a lot of noise too.

An interesting idea

A friend of mine is posting one picture a day on his blog. I think that's a great idea. It keeps you not only thinking about photography all day but it forces you to look at everything as a potential photograph. I am always finding great stuff to photograph when I don't have my camera on me. So, taking some inspiration from Steve, http://tvsteve.blogspot.com/, I will now be bringing my camera with me everywhere and attempting to post at least 1 picture a day.