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Well winter has decided to make a quick comeback here in the Pacific Northwest today!. This is the beautifully restored depot for the Northern Pacific Railroad located in Snoqualmie, Washington. This historic depot is essentially ten minutes from my house and yes, this is the FIRST photo of it I have ever uploaded!

I am very picky about certain locations and this is one of them. I have photos from all four seasons, but just never anything that really, I felt, was worthy of my awesome Flickr friends until now! I wish we would of had a little more snow coverage on the depot, but by parking myself in "The Bush" I was able to hide all of the footprints in the snow! Of course I also had to dodge the snow clumps that were bombarding me and my camera from above during all of this!

This is by far, one of my favorite railroad depots because of the turret and fireplaces. Inside the depot is a little museum and gift shop.

This is six, count em, exposures (-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. Normally I use three exposures, but the +2 was not enough to get into the dark shadows on the building, so I went higher. My camera only brackets three shots at a time, so I had to fire the first sequence off and then adjust my exposure setting and fire the next three before I got any cloud movement. Here I used a very shallow depth of field and manually focused...actually since I learned how to manually focus last year, I have rarely gone to autofocus! I moved into Photoshop and cropped. I also applied a slight perspective crop due to the distortion caused by my wide angle lens. I also had to clean up some trash cans and a "Public Restroom" sign that was in the photo. I just did not feel that was appropriate here! I then pulled back the reds, oranges and yellows and then dialed back the overall saturation a bit.

Thank you for your views, comments, and faves! I appreciate them. Looks like sunset may be good tonight. Wonder if I am going to get any sleep before going to work tonight? Might not!

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Well here is a later shot of the Seattle waterfront from that great sunset on Wednesday. The earlier shot is here: www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/6776413340/ As I stated before, I have been to this location numerous times and have met fellow Flickr friends there too, but never had the light or conditions that I wanted till this past Wednesday. Again, I will attribute that to having Dene with me!

I really liked how the clouds were moving here from the long exposure! Note to self: will have to return to do a time lapse! I have almost been able to check off all of the "Required" locations to shoot Seattle now! I still need a couple more shots from West Seattle and from Gasworks Park!

This is a combination of three timed exposures (45 seconds, 20 seconds and 1:45 seconds) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I corrected the perspective with the perspective Crop in Photoshop. Ran through Topaz Adjust to bring back some details. Final adjustments in Lightroom included pulling back overall saturation and adding a slight vignette.

Thank you for your views, visits, comments and faves. I appreciate them. I hope everyone has a great weekend. We have a chance for some lowland snow this weekend, so I know all of my fellow Seattle Flickr friends will be itching to get out and shoot too!

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Hi to all of my contacts! I am sorry to have been a bad contact lately, as I have been extremely busy with work and sneaking in a few outings here and there when I can. So I snuck in an outing to the Seattle Waterfront and texted several Flickr friends to possibly meetup! Well darn it, everyone has plans! I was able to catch Dene www.flickr.com/photos/denemiles/ at work and we were able to catch the color show above downtown from the waterfront!

This is probably my tenth time visiting this spot for sunset, and I finally got the color show I wanted. Oh, that is right! I had Dene with me...she truly is a lucky charm! She will deny that, but I believe it to be true! So I also got the "Blue Hour" shot that I have been wanting for ever...see...Dene is really a lucky charm!!!

This is three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. Lots and lots of spot removal with the "Clone Stamp!" (I really need to get my sensor cleaned!) This was shot at 10mm to really capture this scene. I did have to do a slight perspective crop, which is required with this particular scene. I then did a little "Dodging and Burning" and ran through Topaz Adjust to regain some details. Lastly, I ran through Lightroom to add a slight vignette and adjusted clarity.

Thank you to ALL of my contacts for your views, comments and faves. I am hoping to slow down a bit to really have some time to visit all of your photostreams and comment on the inspiring work I know that you have been posting!

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Here is a shot from several weeks ago during the start of our "Snowpacalypse" here in the Seattle area. I have wanted a snow covered Twin Falls scene for a very long time and the snow was not too treacherous at this time to drive in. I hiked the almost two miles to the overlook and just was able to take in the magical landscape created by the snow! Here is a shot from earlier last year during the Spring: www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/6247385457/

This is a combination of three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I then ran through Topaz Adjust to regain some of the details and did some "Dodging and Burning" in Photoshop. I then ran through Lightroom to sharpen and add the slight vignette!

I have been busily preparing for a "Meet The Artist's" show at the art gallery located in Fall City, Washington, called "Quirks of Art." The show will be this Saturday February 11th from 10:00am to 7:00pm. I will be out there with some of my work and will explain the HDR process to the attendees. So please stop by if you have a chance. The gallery is located right on the 202 highway in Fall City and across from the Snoqualmie River.

Thank you for your views, comments and faves! I really appreciate the support and look to be visiting your photostreams a little more often now!

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Hey everyone, sorry about being a little intermittent here on Flickr! Been extremely busy with work and have tried to stop by your photostreams! I have also been very busy chasing the sunrises and sunsets that we have been having lately. Been missing the sunrises but have caught a few sunsets!

This is the classic postcard view of Seattle that has been shot to death by everyone that visits and by all of us Seattle photogs! I say that, but we are all drawn to the view and the potential for some epic light! I of course had four potential spots to take a sunset shot and had been slightly disappointed the night before at Kerry Park as there was a nice sunset, but the epic light show happened to the right of this shot on Saturday night! So I did settle for Kerry Park again on Sunday and was not disappointed!

So last night, for a few brief moments, the color happened above the city. I do have a couple later shots where the sky was pink, but the color was not as widespread as it is here! I also have a nice golden shot before the sun went down! I can at least happily saw I have a colorful sunset from Kerry Park to check off of my "Bucket List!"

This is a combination of three exposures (-2,0,+2) merged and tonemapped in Photomatix. I straightened the crop and actually did a slight perspective crop as I had the camera aimed higher into the sky to capture the clouds. I cleaned up some pesky dirt spots, I really need to get my sensor cleaned! I also ran through Topaz Adjust to regain a little detail. I sharpened a bit, and added a light vignette in Lightroom.

Thank you for all of your visits, faves, and comments. They are greatly appreciated.

Please do not use my images on blogs or websites without my permission. All of my images are available for license. Thank you.