Summer 2011

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Reflection of a Summer Sail ~ 1/160S, F/13, ISO 200, 50 mm, WB Auto.  The last few weekends I've been spending time on the water for fresh air and to wind down from work.  Water reflections are always a surprise to me when I put them up on the screen, seeing many details not visible when the image was shot.  This is a reflection of a Sail in the coming evening light.  Only photoshopped for light balance and cropping.

Mineral Pool Bubbles ~ 1/100s, F/6.3, ISO 1600, Ex Bias -.7, FL 200mm,  Color and light balancing in photoshop.  Meditative water in the quiet stillness of the woods and mountain air. 

My Orca.... in the South Sound ~

1/250s, ISO 200, 80mm, Auto WB, hazy day.  This is the day the Orcas travelled to Boston Harbor and Johnson Point.  Photo conditions were not great - hazy sunny day without enough blue sky.  Our friends were quite a distance away.  I shot about 200 images because they were moving and you quite don't know when and where they will break surface.  Like little jack-in-the-boxes.  Photoshop details:  defined the mountains, put a little color in the sky, enhanced the green tones of the tree bank, made the water a bit bluer to contrast off the black and white. 

Self-Portrait ~ f/11, 1/160s, ISO 200, 20mm, WB Auto, PS'ed the color and cropping.  I don't usually take a photos of myself.  However when I was practicing shadow images on Rainier, the reflection in the rocky surface reminded me of a Kokopelli drawing.