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Broken dreams and more [Explored]
Eureka mining company's water wheel with grizzly peak rising in the distance under stormy skies. Highest position in explore: #245 on Saturday, May 16, 2009
Welcome
to my personal blog. Here I post examples of my photography and writing. I specialize in making unique and highly detailed photographs. Notice I said making and not taking. Yes I take photos but a lot of time and work is involved in pushing and punishing the pixels in my images to achieve the look I like.
Please feel free make comments about any of my words or photos. I enjoy constructive critiques, learning about locations to shoot or photography techniques. Click on the "Share Article" link to share any of my photos via Flickr, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
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Can't we all just get along?
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Jun032009
What color should it be?
As a graphic designer I use a Pantone swatch book a lot.
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Downtown train
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 2:02PM | in California, Creative, HDR, San Francisco, Street Car, Travel 
Car 1060 waiting to board passengers at Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco
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A river runs through it
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 2:02PM | in California, Disney, HDR 
It was getting ready to rain.
I had my camera on my gorillapod and had spread it out on the big horizontal log that you see in the lower right side of the frame. I shot 10 exposures but the camera shifted a little after the first five, so I had to use Photoshop to align everything before merging to HDR using Photomatix.
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Event Horizon
Push pins photographed on my desk with a very limited depth of field.
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Dino-Teeth
Close-up of Rex's has sharp plastic teeth
I always thought if I was going to photograph dinosaur teeth it would be in the Badlands of Montana. Instead I shot this on my dining room table.
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Sigma 14mm
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 1:59PM | in Camera Gear, Macro 
Many Ritz Camera stores are closing in my area and everything in the stores is now discounted. I picked up this Sigma 14mm f2.8 which is heavy and built like a artillery shell. This photo was taken with yet another Sigma lens I bought at Ritz just for fun because it was so cheap. A 28-90 Macro for less than $18 US.