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Photo of the Day : December 2010

More solstice

If the wind is down, I'll put a few candles in the trees. Like this one:

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Twin Barns at the Nisqually Delta Wildlife Refuge. These are the last remaining vestiges of Brown's farm. The dikes that created it have been removed to restore the land to it's natural state.


f/11 1/25 sec Tamron 28-300 @120 mm
Sharpened with NIK Sharpener Pro.
Color correction with NIK Viveza 2.
The Flickr Upload lost some of the detail in compression...

Dale
 
kallisti said:
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I really like the texture and tone of this in black and white...

Designer Dale said:
Twin Barns at the Nisqually Delta Wildlife Refuge. These are the last remaining vestiges of Brown's farm. The dikes that created it have been removed to restore the land to it's natural state.


f/11 1/25 sec Tamron 28-300 @120 mm
Sharpened with NIK Sharpener Pro.
Color correction with NIK Viveza 2.
The Flickr Upload lost some of the detail in compression...

Dale
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Sweet pic, Dale. And knowing a little history helps evoke feelings of nostalgia and contemplation... once can just imagine the echoes of farm life back in another time. Nice color, tones, detail, and composition, too.
 
Sometimes you just have to have a cute kitten picture. Fritti is attacking a bow under the door. Everyone say, "Awwww."

 
pdxflint said:

D300, 80-200f/2.8, 135mm, f/4.0, 1/80, ISO200
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mmmmmmmm, Pale Ale.....<drools> ;) :D :p

I've never had that kind. You're on the west coast right?

Edit: Sorry, just looked at your profile, yep, Oregon. I really need to make a trip out that way sometime just to try all of the microbrew/craft beers :D
 
Thanks peskaa, Dale, TheMacFeed and Phrasiklea for your comments on my previous pic :)

Designer Dale said:
This is not the best shot of this view. I didn't want to use new software on the better one. I didn't pay a great deal of attention to the horizon represented by the water because I was going to correct it in post. Then I got into NIK Sharpener Pro and forgot about it. I have a few pieces of equipment that I forgot to move to my new backpack, mainly my hot shoe level. It's more important than I thought.

This was shot fully extended on the Tamron, 300 mm f/11 @ 1/100 sec. This is not really one of the best shots to try to sharpen, looking long range over Puget Sound into the Olympic mountains at sea level between large cities is not the Alps...

^ Great use of a soft pastel color pallet. The shutter timing is just about perfect for producing an ethereal feel. You have this down pat.
BTW, is that one of the Pentax DA* lenses?

Dale
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Thanks Dale!, that was my DA 12-24mm, a really sharp, great lens.
I don't have any DA* lenses, the weather sealing would be nice :)

Phrasikleia said:
The colors of your sunsets are so lovely. It seems to me that different parts of the world tend to get certain colors in the sky more regularly, though I have no idea why that is. At any rate, the green on the rocks really makes the sky hum. Very nice!
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Thanks Phrasikleia!, that one was actually early in the morning, the sun only to show it's colour in the clouds for a few minutes before it retreated into an overcast sky for the day.
On hot humid days in summer afternoon thunderstorms are common, the storm comes and dumps on us, and then passes where everything gets hot and sticky again.
It's during this time the cloud formations are interesting (and golden, red, pink...) and there's afternoon sunlight lighting the landscape, with dark storm clouds usually going out to sea in the background, you might even be lucky and catch some background lightning.
This is even more common up in tropical Darwin, Northern Territory where things get real sticky... and full of mosquitoes, box jellyfish and crocodiles :p

All other occasions you have to get up early, as the sun rises east from the ocean, and that doesn't happen often! :p
 
Designer Dale said:
Twin Barns at the Nisqually Delta Wildlife Refuge. These are the last remaining vestiges of Brown's farm. The dikes that created it have been removed to restore the land to it's natural state.

Dale
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I truly love this photo so much. It's one of my favorites I've seen from you. If I ever get to hang the photos I do have now and find a home for this you have to consider selling me a print. :)
 
Thanks pdxflint for the kind words.

Today's from me is a variation on yesterday's.

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Peace... and goodwill to all

Merry Christmas to all my friends here on Macrumors digital photography forum... may your days be happy and bright and the new year bring you joy and beautiful photographs... I've enjoyed all of your work this last year and look forward to so much more to come.
Cheers,
Phil
 
This is my first contribution....new to photography and new to dslr. Not as good as the other pictures posted but this is my first attempt...hope you like:


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