From my visit to Yosemite. No editing.

very nice. HDR? how many exposures was this one?

Five, at 1 f-stop more/less each. I'm not really happy about the overall brightness yet (it's too dark...); maybe I'll tonemap it again one day.

Nothing fancy, just some pictures around my yard.

A flowering plum in front of my side kitchen window (no fruit)


Peach tree in the back yard.This one is too young for fruit yet.


Daffodils in my back yard. There share the barrel with a Japanese maple, but it's naked still.


I didn't take pictures of the pear or the fig trees because are still naked. I'll take them later.

Pretty! I miss real signs of spring...of seasons.

You dress your trees?

They dress themselves, but I do respect their privacy while naked.

Pretty bird I saw out yesterday, I have no idea what he is though. About 1.5-2m wingspan and rather scary. Any ideas?

After blowing up your picture

and looking at it closer, I think it's a peregrine falcon


Wouldn't you say they look close (especially the one on the right)?

(click for bigger pictures)

That looks like him. Thanks.

Driving back from Zion canyon this morning.



And a couple from a new Project I am working on
Windmills

Beach earlier this evening:





Note small girl running right to left in the first pic.

Just a few shots from around the valley this morning ...all in a days work.

Took this earlier today...sorry not very clear, but dangit, it was still raining and I was trying to hurry to void my camera getting wet.

finally getting a bit of spring around here. the magnolia trees at my school campus bloomed and wilted before i could bring my camera, but it was then the perfect time to catch the apple trees there.

Spriiiiiing!



I could say I was gardening, but really I was digging an old golf ball out of the lawn...

a patch of these things are growing outside my front door. i like to call them blueballs.

Beautiful! The colours are so vibrant.

thanks! heh, i used a bit of color tweaking with photoshop, i'll confess. i'm still learning how to manipulate the million and one light settings on my new SLR camera.

i hope once i learn what all the settings, buttons, knobs, levers, strings and smoke signals do on the camera, i'd need a lot less post-editing.

A flower from the garden.