Rose garden Photos

Thursday, May 23, 2013
Rose Garden Panorama Sunset
An amazing sunset at the Santa Barbara Mission rose garden. The Roses are in full bloom this time of year, it's a wonderful time to visit the Mission and wander around the grounds. If you have really good timing you can experience a spectacular spiring evening with amazing beauty in every direction.

Friday, July 8, 2011
Mission Sunset Time Lapse
Time lapse of the sunset over the Santa Barbara Mission from the Mission rose garden. The Mission is my favorite place to try out a new technique, so after an evening of driving around trying to find an interesting spot that might have some interesting clouds I ended up here. And I wasn't disappointed.

Monday, September 1, 2008
Mission Rose Garden Sunset
Click the main image for a larger view
I really love the fountain by the
Santa Barbara Mission. But most people don't realize there is
another fountain across the street in the rose garden.
It is really worth the little walk, especially at sunset.
If you have been around the site for a while
you know that I really like the clouds in the winter
around Santa Barbara. Mainly because we don't normally get
much weather in the summer other than some very thick low fog
in the mornings. Well, this summer has been a little different.
Not much fog, I assume because it has not been very cool at night,
but lots of humidity. On the plus side we have had some
really nice winter-like sunsets. Of course there is one drawback.
The night before last was so warm and humid I almost could not breathe.
Fortunately it looks like we are starting to get a break from the heat.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Sunset at the Mission Rose Garden
(click on the main image to see a bigger version)
More experimentation! This image was created from about 11 shots of the sunset.
I could not get exactly what I wanted from one shot from any one lens. The only
thing I had that was wide enough to get the whole sunset was a fish eye.
I like my fish eye, but in this case I wanted to give more of the feeling
of standing there in the rose garden watching the sunset.
The distortion of the fish eye detracted from that too much.
The sheer scale of things caused some interesting problems. The full scale image
could be printed easily 4 and a half feet at high resolution. And as long as I
am building this kind of thing I figure why not go for full scale!?
I think I need more ram... and more hard drives.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Neighbor's Rose Garden
The neighbors' roses were peekin' over the fence again, so I shot 'em! :-D