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.

 

Arts Rolla

The City of Rolla sponored through its art promotion program a call for photographs from the surrounding area so asking Linda, which images she thought that I should enter we decided on two landscape pictures, "Kerry's Pond" and "View from Highway 17."  My pictures did not win any awards however they were seen by many different people during the month of the show.  I spoke to the judge after and got a few pointers.  My taste in pictures and his run at polar opposite.  I prefer an Ansel Adams type landscape image.