Reworked Images

I hope that everyone made it through the Blizzard of 2011 with little or no problems.  To keep myself busy, I played around with a couple of old images.  The picture of St. Joseph's Church is blended or fused image.  You blend together three to five images that were bracketed when you took the picture.  The you play with it until you have the product you want, how's that for a technical explanation.

This other picture is from this past spring.  I had my camera in the truck with the AC on high since it was so hot outside.  I saw these flowers and pulled over to take a few pictures.  When I got out of the truck with my camera, the lens fogged up so instead of waiting for it to clear I took several pictures as the lens filter cleared.

Welcome Back!

I have not posted to this blog since last May.  I am not sure where the time has gone it just seemed to fly by.  I retired for the second time at the end of December 2010 so now I am looking forward to spending more time working with photography.

I have rediscovered HDR image making, which is very exciting when everything works correctly.  The pine cone bud picture is a HDR image processed in Photomatix Light.  I was just practicing by taking pictures of our pine trees.

I also discovered a pond on post that is very enjoyable to photograph.  I have included a picture of it, sunrise over Bloodland Pond.

Ozark Wild Flowers

Its that time of year where April showers have brought May wild flowers to the Ozark highways and byways.  Our flowering Dogwoods have just completed a spectacle blooming season and now the wild flowers are popping up along side the roads and along the back wood trails.  The Ozark's are a subject rich environment for wild flower photographers; if it would just stop raining.