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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Our Lady of Mount CarmelMy intent was to get some nice sunset shots of this beautiful church in Montecito. I was a little late, but it was still a nice night.If you tilt your head to the left and use your imagination a little you can make out half of the constellation Orion rising from behind the church. |
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Sunday, August 26, 2007
Courthouse LightWe are getting some unseasonable moisture from the hurricane that went through the Gulf of Mexico last week. The days have been really humid, but the clouds have been a nice change. Seemed like a good time for some evening shots of the courthouse.This is actually a combination of about ten exposures in a technique called a High Dynamic Range Image. Takes a little work, but a normal long exposure would have blown out the image around the lantern and you would still not have been able to see the clouds and stars. architecture 49 | California 108 | cloud 48 | courthouse 18 | creative lighting 18 | High Dynamic Range Image 15 | lamp 10 | lantern 7 | light 49 | Mediterranean architecture 21 | night 27 | palm tree 33 | Santa Barbara 120 | Santa Barbara Courthouse 18 | sky 49 | Spanish-Mediterranean architecture 17 | star 5 |
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Friday, October 6, 2006
Starlight HarborIt was a full moon tonight, a really full moon. My wife read online that the moon was going to look as much as 12% bigger than other times. (The reason for this is the fact that it is near the low point in it's slightly elliptical orbit.) So we thought it would be a good evening for some evening shots.The sun was gone when I took this, just a faint glow behind me. The glow to the left of the photo is from the full moon. And the stars are clearly visible. This is not a new type of shot for me. But it is just about a first with my digital camera. I can usually pull this off pretty well with film, but the digital was a little more temperamental. Actually, it is just what you get used to. Now that I know how it likes to be treated, I think I'll be using it a lot more this way. boat 17 | harbor 11 | light 49 | ocean 62 | sailboat 10 | sailing 3 | Santa Barbara 120 | Santa Barbara Harbor 11 | sky 49 | star 5 | water 55 |
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Backlit StarsThese beautiful little flowers are going wild around here right now. No wonder, it is one of the rainiest Marches EVER. They said on the news today that there has been record snow on the mountains in California, as much as 16 FEET!As with so many of my nice nature shots, this one is credited to The Hound, during a nice hound walk. |
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Friday, January 7, 2005
Sunset TreeWe have been having some amazing weather in Southern California this season. (I know, we're not alone!) But it makes for some beautiful sunsets. This is another of my experimentations with my new fish eye lens from eBay! |
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