Inner Harbor at Sunset – Gloucester, Massachusetts
Went out to Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann last weekend and headed straight for the water. It is one of the great fishing ports on the Eastern seaboard of North America. Found the Inner Harbor area and managed to get some shots at dusk. This is one of them. That building is the “Gloucester Manufactory,” [...]
Sunlight and Clouds on Beach 4
Now that I’m out here in New England, I thought it might be time to revisit some shots I took when we were out on the Pacific Coast last fall. Going through my Lightroom library revealed a number of shots with potential, and this was one I decided to go ahead and process and see [...]
3 Fishing Trawlers
Fisherman’s Terminal, Seattle And, yes, that gray sky is probably here to stay, more or less permanently, until next July. The splashes of color from these fishing boats, though, can help make up for all of the gray and rain of the coming months.
Canal with Drawbridge
This is the canal leading into Seattle’s Hiram M. Chittendon Locks, connecting Puget Sound (salt water) with Lake Union and Lake Washington (both fresh water) via a ship canal. I can bike here in about 10 minutes from my house, so I spent a lot of time down at the locks today, shooting photos and [...]
East Waterway, Port of Seattle
A wider, panoramic shot of the East Waterway of the Port of Seattle. You can see a tugboat and two big container ships. The interesting about the container ships is that you can’t say whether or not they are loading or unloading because they load and unload simultaneously — a fact that I just learned [...]
Freighter Anchored in Elliott Bay, Seattle
I’ve been biking by these freighters a lot lately and wanted to catch the sort of stillness they emanate as they sit anchored in Elliott Bay. Again, I processed this as HDR and then used a mild “Orton” effect in Photoshop to create that kind of glow on the freighter.
Dreamscape, Ruby Beach
Well, this one now seems to be gaining some popularity out on Flickr. When I took it, I didn’t think the light was right, but thanks to some (subtle) HDR processing, I managed to bring the light out of the foreground and get the clouds and mist just right. I hope I can keep using [...]
At the Grain Terminal (2)
OK. I admit it. I had a lot of fun doing this one. When I bicycle to work along Elliott Bay in Seattle, I go through Myrtle Edwards Park on the bike path and pass the grain terminal, where there is invariably a grain ship from some exotic place like China, Panama, Greece, or Malaysia [...]
Seattle Skyline at Night
And one more from my little twilight photo shoot on the Water Taxi pier in West Seattle. This one is of course looking the other way than the previous two shots I posted. I iniitially processed this from 3 exposures as HDR, but mostly just to get the exposure right. Some of those HDR shots [...]
West Seattle Fishing Pier at Dusk
OK. I had to post this one to my blog as well. It’s the result of some serious digging into Photomatix Pro for the HDR creation and tonemapping and then Lightroom for final processing. I am simply amazed at what these software tools can do to make images like this much easier to achieve. In [...]
Fishermen at the Water Taxi Pier, West Seattle
Well. I had quite a time a week ago Friday hanging out on the fishing pier where the West Seattle water taxi comes in from downtown. I had intended on getting only some twilight skyline shots, but the fishermen and the water taxi were there and so I turned the tripod and got a few [...]
Sunset Walk on Kalaloch Beach
Had a lot of good light out at Kalaloch on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s quite a dramatic place no matter what the weather, and I tried to capture this feeling in all of the photos I took on Kalaloch Beach, Beach 4, and Ruby Beach. This photo is of my wife and son walking up [...]
Large Seastacks at Ruby Beach
Seastacks on Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park on the Pacific Coast in Washington.
Ruby Beach Seastacks
This is probably my favorite photo from my latest foray into high-dynamic range (HDR) photography. Taken on the rough and wild Washington coast in Olympic National Park at Ruby Beach, I think it captures that sort of other-worldly, almost prehistoric feel to the place. When you are here (or in La Push or in other [...]
Seattle skyline, with cloud
Just a recent photo I took + a little editing in PhotoShop = not a bad picture at all. (Taken from the balcony of a friend’s house in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle). Even though I didn’t specifically process it as an HDR shot, it has that look and feel about it.
North Sea from Bamburgh Castle
I wish I could achieve the simplicity of this composition more often. The funny thing about this shot was that it was taken as more of a snapshot in just a moment of time. I didn’t think about composing it first. I just ducked my head through an archway as we were wandering around the [...]
North Sea, Near Bamburgh Castle
Yet another attempt to capture the dramatic sky and landscape around Bamburgh castle in Northeastern England when we were there last year.