Chico wakes us up around 7:30am, rushes outside to do his business, leaps around begging for food, and then runs upstairs and gets back into the bed. He stays here for most of the day, despite my working out of my home.
Taken in Victoria, BC, Canada
Again I’m still working on my technique of post processing HDR photos. I snapped this one from across the inner harbour in Victoria. I like how this one turned out in the larger version, although the smaller version looks a bit gray. Still working on it..
Taken in Victoria, BC, Canada
I’m still working on my technique with HDR, but I’m definitely liking the results more. This one has some noise and could use with a bit of sharpening. While I’m focused mostly on the technique, I am stealing ideas… to give credit for this one, you can see my example here. Click on the image to see the larger version.
Taken in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Yesterday evening I spent a while reading Trey Ratcliff’s HDR Tutorial. I’ve been viewing his photos for quite some time, and other HDR photos (search on Flickr for HDR, you’ll see TONS!). Anyways, I wanted to give it a go, This morning I ventured downtown Victoria in hopes to get some images to manipulate, then spent a good 2 hours this morning learning beginning of the process. This image isn’t completely finished (per Trey’s guidelines) but I have more learning to do, and wanted to post what I have done this far. I’m pretty happy with this image as is, although it could stand for a bit of noise cancellation, and Flickr won’t take my whole 21megapixel image, so I need better re-sizing software (which I’m working on). But it’s a start! I hope to improve and do more HDR photography in the future. The images usually end up breath-taking, just see Trey’s blog to watch a professional at work.
Taken in Victoria, BC, Canada.
This little girl’s hair is crazy awesome. Taking a break to eat a sandwich, she posed for this photo.
Taken in Victoria, BC, Canada.
These flags were flapping from a southern wind. They looked so clean and proud to me.
Taken in Sydney, BC, Canada
Mom rolled up this little girls pants so she could get her feet wet in the water. She wasn’t happy so she was in the process of un-rolling them when I snapped this.
Taken at Thetis Lake, Victoria, BC, Canada.
This is an old photo, but one of my favorites. This guy was attempting to sail on Lake Union, in Seattle by Gas Works park (shown in the back). Struggling to catch all the wind he can.
Taken in Seattle, WA, United States.
In Seattle this past weekend staying at an apartment in Belletown. Here is a view of my two favorite buildings downtown Seattle.
Taken in Belletown, Seattle, WA, United States
Yesterday I talked about being on assignment. Well the assignment was to make this bottle look like it appeared somewhere in Seattle. Out of the photos that I snapped I think this one turned out to be my favorite.
Taken in Seattle, WA, United States
While out on assignment, I wondered through Pike’s Place Market late Sunday evening when it was almost completely closed down. I have never seen this place so empty. I snapped this shot at the far end of the market with a few stragglers hanging back.
Taken at Pike’s Place Market, Seattle, WA, United States
This is a shot of Tall Ships, that are 1.5 inches tall. Victoria has a Miniature World, that is one of the better attractions in Victoria in my opinion. They have a giant train which goes from coast to coast of Canada. These Tall Ships were representative of Newfoundland.
Taken in Victoria, BC, Canada
Drove up to Parksville to see the Sand-Castle competition at Parksville Beach. This one was the one that made you think the most. The park had an Olympic theme with the Olympics coming to Vancouver, Canada. This particular one had an ice skater fall through some thin ice and the judges were hearing no evil, seeing no evil and speaking no evil.
Yes, this is made out of sand. Amazing isn’t it.
Taken in Parksville, BC, Canada
This little girl was asked to get her photo taken by her father with her banana. She was hiding behind the Banana so her father couldn’t get a great shot off. Off to the side, I was able to snap this one.
Taken in Victoria, BC, Canada
Lulu is a 3 week old Chihuahua who’s first visit outing was Chihuahua meet-up group. She slept through the whole thing.
Taken at Gorge Park, Victoria, BC
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