De-bearded Dude Does Good
Well not so much with the portrait, I meant marrying the girl eight years ago. ;-)))
Quite a few folk have been clamoring to see me sans beard, so here you go all! It's been almost ten years since I last shaved it off, so I have an excuse for such a baby face under there, hah.
Shot Notes: Wish I had gotten the shoot-through umbrella high enough to soften up my collar shadow-line more, alas it was just a quick-grab portrait anyways.
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Uploaded on Nov 21, 2009
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Entering Courthouse Wash, Arches National Park
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Yep, the title says it all...
Happy Friday All! ;-)))
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Uploaded on Nov 20, 2009
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Utah-rado: Seeing Red
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The fantastical landscapes given rise by the geology of the Colorado Plateau are known worldwide for amazing rock formations with incredible red hues. Here's a view of some rock formations just to the east of Fisher Towers in SE Utah. Makes one wonder why only my home state of Colorado features the color red as part of its name, heh.
Image notes: single frame, no hdr, no grads. The key was near sunset light on these rocks to warm up the reds even more. Hard to believe it would be pitch black out at the time this was taken now that we are in December. I miss those long summer days!
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Uploaded on Nov 18, 2009
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Moon-mill
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The moon arcs across a Pawnee National Grassland sky in NE Colorado with an iconic Aermotor windmill in the foreground. The red lights in the distance are from a modern wind farm (Cedar Creek).
Shot Notes: This was an involved process: A. In the field I took 467 shots to create this image: 466 8 second shots for the trails and 1 shot with a handheld SB800 flash with CTO warming gell to light up the windmill/foreground; B. Batch convert RAW images to 16 bit TIFFs in the ever-living slow Nikon Capture NX2; C: Batch stack the 466 TIFFs with the startrails action in Photoshop; D: Clone out unwanted lens flair and tidy up resulting image with NR, other basic edits; E: Prepare image with warming flash used to help pop the foreground/windmill; F: Blend star/moon trails shot with warming flash shot; G: Post blend cleanup; H: Post it here!
I actually almost posted a whole different version that shows more of one still, see below in comments.
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Uploaded on Nov 16, 2009
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The Rise of Jupiter
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Jupiter rises behind the silhouette of Fisher Towers complemented by the stunning Milky Way display in this area of very low light pollution in SE Utah.
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Uploaded on Nov 13, 2009
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