SJC Train station

Here is a shot a took months ago, thought it turned out well with some minor processing.

Yosemite

Took a ton of photos while on our trip to Yosemite, some that I am pretty pleased with. The pictures below is not what I wanted, there were kids walking all over the shot and made it difficult to shoot, but I did what I could. The shots are at the top of Sentinel Dome looking away from the main Yosemite valley, (south east perhaps?) The tree is the famous Jeffery Pine that Ansel Adams made famous but was first photographed by Carleton Watkins back in 1867.

SLC Temple and Rock Canyon & Stream

Last month while in UT for the Wasatch Back relay race from Logan to Park City, I had a chance to take a variety of photos. The Salt Lake City temple, no doubt has been photographed hundreds of thousands of times, probably millions, but with a clear day and a decent camera I was determined to at least take some for myself that where print and display worthy, hopefully some of these will be on our walls in a short time. We also hiked Rock Canyon, something we never though of doing while living in UT, but coming back as a visitor, random things are entertaining and enjoyable, things that would have been boring as a student as some may think.

Sister's Family Photos

A few weeks ago my sister wanted me to take some family shots with their new baby, these are some of my favorites. I messed around with some photoshop processing on some, not too fancy it was very quick.

San Clemente Pier @ Night

Playing around with some night shots. I didn't have a tripod so I had to rest my camera on a picnic table and set the self timer to eliminate camera shake.





Dana Point Harbor

HDR

HDR - High Dynamic Range, is quite the option to get some great shadows and highlights merged into a nice looking photo. Do a google/flickr search and you shall find HDR images aplenty, some of which are completely bizarre and way overdone. Others are very amazing in the detail they can bring out. Ryan McGinnis runs an awesome photoblog that I have followed for a year or so, and he produces some fine work. Go to his blog and search HDR and you will find many great examples of his HDR art. He also published a tutorial on how to create them in Photoshop CS2, the link is here.
Example 1
Example 2
Great NYC HDR shots