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Broken dreams and more [Explored]
Eureka mining company's water wheel with grizzly peak rising in the distance under stormy skies. Highest position in explore: #245 on Saturday, May 16, 2009
Welcome
to my personal blog. Here I post examples of my photography and writing. I specialize in making unique and highly detailed photographs. Notice I said making and not taking. Yes I take photos but a lot of time and work is involved in pushing and punishing the pixels in my images to achieve the look I like.
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Entries in Disney (48)
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A river runs through it
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 2:02PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
It was getting ready to rain.
I had my camera on my gorillapod and had spread it out on the big horizontal log that you see in the lower right side of the frame. I shot 10 exposures but the camera shifted a little after the first five, so I had to use Photoshop to align everything before merging to HDR using Photomatix.
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Ernest McLean from New Orleans
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:55PM | in California, Culture, Disney, HDR 
Ernie was the last person directly hired by Walt Disney back in the mid 1960's. He has played with Smiley Lewis, Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew among others and is considered by many as a master of guitar.
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Eureka Timber Company
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:50PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
Grizzly rapids water wheel.
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Welcome to California [Explored]
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:44PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
It never rains in Southern California - highest position in explore #95 on 2/13/09
Thanks to my wife who stood in the rain holding an umbrella over me and the camera. I owe her!
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Toon Gazebo - After
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:44PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
This High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo was created from 10 auto exposure bracketed images.
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Toon Gazebo - Before
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:43PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
This is the 5th of 10 bracketed source images I used to create the HDR image "Toon Gazebo - After".
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tea cups on a rainy night
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:43PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
Rain and HDR makes for great reflections
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and now you're gone
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:42PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
The paradise pier area of disney's California adventure park was always meant to resemble those turn of the century seaside amusement parks that have largely vanished. This view is hauntingly empty with the water drained from the lagoon and the sun wheel in a state of reconstruction.
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Big Wheel Keeps on Turning
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:22PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
Eureka Gold and Timber Company
