Morning Sunrise

As I was having my morning coffee, I looked out the window and saw that the snow had a pinkish cast. I quickly grabbed my camera and rushed outside and saw this beautiful sunrise! Thought I would share it with you.

Winter Solace

Wintertime brings empty trees that are very poetic. As they're stripped of all it's clothing. When Spring arrives in a few months, the clothing on the trees come back. They are just as beautiful either way.

Good morning everybody. I was going through my images this morning to decide what to blog about. Came across this lovely photo I had shot awhile back. The morning fog was very dense and I saw it out the window - this tree surrounded by the fog. I quickly grabbed my camera and captured it.

It turned out to be a very beautiful shot! Enjoy!

More Snow This Weekend

Happy New Year everybody!

There was some snow this weekend. Not as much as last weekend. I went out for a walk down my street and saw this lovely sunset. It was a very gorgeous setting. Had to capture it and share it with all of you.

Hope 2011 is a very wonderful and prosperous year!

Christmas in Phoenix, AZ

Just finished editing photos from our Christmas weekend in Phoenix, AZ. We stayed at the Hermosa Inn near Phoenix. We celebrated Christmas Saturday morning. And came home to a big snow storm. Which wasn't really serious at all.

Happy New Year to everybody!

The Mill at St. Anselma

Today I decided to shoot some HDR images at the Mill. When I got there, I had shot several buildings But the red barn seemed an excellent choice to work with in Nik's HDR Effects Pro software. The images take on a much more vibrant painterly punch. Which I really like using for artistic effects. For those of you that might be interested, I shot the barn with a Nikon D300s, and a Tamron 17-50 mm f2.8 lens. The photos were then edited in Aperture 3.

The other day I decided to try out the Nik Software HDR Effects Pro I recently purchased. It's a stand alone plug in that can be used in either Photoshop, Lightroom, or Aperture. Awhile back I had photographed Hallman's General Store because it's such a charming "country" general store near Chester Springs.

So I opened the photo in the software and experimented with the control settings. And wow! the effect came out beautifully! Now I love creating images in HDR Effects Pro. You can either expose several frames from 3 stops under and 4 stops overexposed to create your HDR. Or as in the case of Hallman's general store, you can work with a single image. But when you use bracketed shutter speeds, the effect is even more stunning.