Dark-na

I won't lie. Its dark outside. early.

For weeks, I have clickity clacked away at my desk, computing rates and analyzing changes to the fourth decimal place, pausing every now and then to look up and glance out the window. I wished I could be out exploring & capturing some nice frames, but responsibility got the best of me and I continued to clickity clack. I pacified my photographic needs with this quick pic taken with my little elph. I love the colors of the warm afternoon sun.


Sadly, by the time I got off work, my options were pretty dang limited. (btw... I took this one with my elph in the Target parking lot. Not too shabby...)


Although, on the flip side, it has been super easy capturing night frames! I took this one at dinner one night down at the Waterfront! Yup... another elph shot.

I am glad that today is the shortest day of the year... because that means that soon it will be sunny and I will be reunited with my dear friend, daylight.

Thanks for taking a look at these pics! I hope you are well & keeping it cool with all the holiday, um, stuff.

In peace, Lori

frrrostay

Here is another round of old pics! These were taken the first weekend in December up past North Bend, on some random side of the road near the Twin Falls trailhead. It was another day of wandering. I really enjoy the different aspects of photography; sometimes it is hectic, sometimes it is grueling, but what I most enjoy is just the free flowing "let's see" approach. And that is exactly what happened on this particular Sunday.

We didn't have much light; typical for winter, the light fades FAST. I spent most of my time trying to macro the icy moss on an old bridge. At first, I used my bff the 50mm with the teleconverter, but the vinette was insane! It was fun, though to try!

While I was concentrating on the icy mossy bridge, DMA was over at a creek across the road. After awhile, we met back up and headed down a path near where we were parked. It looked like an old, overgrown trail, and we ended up at the river. DMA kept exploring, but I stayed put and did a few long exposures. It was a wonderful time of day for this setting. I was able to do 20 second exposures without blowing out the image. I love the colors in the rocks.

Of course, I edited one of my frames as black & white. what can I say. its what i do.

Well, thanks for checking out this round of pics! I am caught up on posting what I have edited; buuuuut I have pics to edit still :) yay! And i just found three sd cards in my laptop bag when I was only expecting to find one! oh my! fun!

Hope the blustery, wintery weather is treating you well and that you & your family are all happy, warm & safe. Take care.

boooo!

oh man.... these are old, old old pics! I took these on Halloween in a park in Black Diamond along the Green River. It felt kind of eerie maybe because it was a gloomy day or because it was Halloween, or maybe it was just my childhood fear of anything associated with the Green River.

I don't really have any special techniques or approaches that I took here... it was all about whimsy.

Is it snowing yet?

Spencer Belated

I am a bit behind on posting! but, uh, what else is new?

These three are from an early winter stroll through Spencer Island in Everett. The goal for the day was birding, and I was armed with dma's teleconverter and my 70-300mm. Sadly, the birds were m.i.a. (oh no, wait, I DID get a pic of an eagle, but it is kinda boring...). It was nice to get out in the brisk air & good practice to keep eyes & ears open for birds.

Thankfully, as we left the refuge, dma and I were able to enjoy this lovely sunset. Gorgeous, isn't it? I had already packed up my gear, but we couldn't resist capturing these wonderful colors. The river was soooo glassy!

... well, it *was* glassy until a bunch of kiddos starting throwing rocks or something into the river. I didn't mind; I was able to practice getting a few abstract water images!

It has been tough the past few weeks, from a lighting perspective. I have been stuck at my desk looking out at the beautiful sunny weather allll day, only to walk out of the office after work to a sunset. One can only take so many pictures of magic hour in a business park, yes?
geez. Hopefully, the weekend will bring some interesting photographic adventures!

black and white beach

bright and early. those are the best words to describe Friday morning. While most people were either huddled outside their favorite store, or snuggled in their nice warm blankets, dma and I were on the Edmonds/Kingston ferry. Our destination de jour was the Dungeness Nat'l Wildlife Refuge in Sequim.

It was such a beautiful morning!!! I loved the way the light was hitting the morning dew on the branches and broke the rule of "don't shoot into the sun" to get this frame:

And then I took a ton... i mean a ton... of pictures of the little rocks on the beach as the tide crashed onto the shore. These are two of my favorites...

I also took a few using in-camera black and white. The pic below has not been edited.

The beach filled up quickly, so we headed out... the road to Hurricane Ridge was closed for the season, so we kept heading west and explored a bit of Port Townsend. We found some little pipers which proved to be both photogenic and entertaining. I took this shot with the 70-300mm and teleconverter using manual focus (oh the joys of the teleconverter!!). I liked the vertical pattern of the three birds and ended up cropping in to get this frame:

Sometimes, my fuzzy memory bugs me. For example, I can't remember which book I saw an overly over-exposed beach scene in... I think it was Tom Ang's book? oh well. sigh. I took advantage of the bright evening sunset light and intentionally over-exposed one of the piper pics. I did some other minor adjustments in photoshop, too...

And thus concludes Black Friday 2009! At this point, the weekend was just beginning... I will have more posts up in a few days. i think.

Thanks for checking out this round of pics & hope that you are having a beautiful day.