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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Can't we all just get along?
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 11:57PM | in Culture, Explored, HDR, National Cathedral, Travel, Washington DC Amazing morning light in the National Cathedral in Washington DC. Kathy led me on a 2 mile, uphill death march from our hotel but wow was it worth it. There were very few people there, the light was amazing and best of all they allow tripods to be used inside!
The dirty low down
3 Comments | tagged California, Cars, Creative, Explored, HDR, Whittier | Share Article Permalink Email Article Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 9:51AM | in California, Creative, Disney, Explored, HDR A mermaid is moving in - Highest position in Explore #368 on 2/15/09
Highest position in Explore: #377 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I went to Chicago for my company's Creative Summit. A three day conference held for all of Parson's creatives company wide. There were graphic designers, 3D artists, writers, editors, coordinators and supervisors present. It was a great and valuable experience.
I stayed at the hotel Club Quarters at 75 Wacker. I was lucky enough to get a room on the 29th floor of the tower section of the hotel that overlooks the Chicago River.
This photo was taken by opening the window and extending my arms (but not my body) out as far as I could to take a 3 shot HDR. There was no way I could have managed my normal 10 shots. I had to use Photoshop's align layers function to compensate for my camera shake. Hand held HDR's are difficult, especially when taken from 300 feet above the ground.
Hotel window view
This is where it gets interesting
Post a Comment | tagged Airport, Art, Chicago, Ohare, Travel | Share Article Permalink Email Article Ohare walkway to Terminal One. This walkway is located under one of the active runways at Ohare and is used to get from ground transportation to United's terminal one.
This is a 3 exposure HDR shot hand held. I fully expected security to come running over when I took my camera out of my bag and began shooting.
Post a Comment | tagged Aviation, Color, HDR, Light, Ohare, Terminal, Travel | Share Article Permalink Email Article Golden Gate Park's Carousel in San Francisco
Highest Position in Explore #212 on Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:57PM | in California, Explored, HDR, Travel I expected to see George Jetson at this bar.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:56PM | in California, Explored, HDR, Panorama, San Francisco, Travel The Golden Gate bridge arches over Fort Point before continuing on across the San Francisco bay. It was extremely windy the day I shot this. I actually got blown over twice but saved the camera! I will need to restitch this as there are some areas that didn't match up quite right.
Highest position in Flickr Explore: #25 on Thursday, April 23, 2009
