We have this new building,
this new pond;
it’s November 7th
in Alaska,
and it hasn’t snowed yet …
Turnagain Arm under a full moon
November 1st, 9 P.M.
(Sunset = 4:57 P.M.)
The little town of Hope, Alaska
Maxine Shines
A semi meets two cars
(with different color temperature lights)
November 7th
Same gigantic Redwood as below, four years earlier — mid-May 2005
Shot with film, drumscanned by Color Folio
Base of a Redwood rising >350 feet heavenward
Northern California
Self-portrait
4/29/09
Glory!
Related (though not the same tree):
Can you guess what this is?
10/12/09
First G11 photo
When a wing is generating lift it causes a vortex to form at each wingtip, and sometimes also at the tip of each wing flap. These wingtip vortices persist in the atmosphere long after the aircraft has passed. The reduction in pressure and temperature across each vortex can cause water to condense and make the cores of the wingtip vortices visible. This effect is more common on humid days. Wingtip vortices can sometimes be seen behind the wing flaps of airliners during takeoff and landing…. (source)
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Wingtip Vortices During Take-off at Anchorage International
Close-up
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Higher
Close-up Left
Close-up Right
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Jody and Marge saying Goodbye to NWA
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Facing North
Atlas Air > Alaska Air Smiling Face > We’re going to Disneyland!
B-Concourse has a face-lift
with brand new marble floor tiles
(Intentionally underexposed)
Facing South
Chugach Mountains Begin
B-Concourse has a face-lift
with brand new marble floor tiles
(Intentionally underexposed)
Facing West
My old stomping grounds
B-Concourse has a face-lift
with brand new marble floor tiles
My interpretation:
Intentionally underexposed
9/18/09
Hand-held self-portrait
Distortion thanks to the widest of wide-angle lenses
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12/13/08
Robert starts his day. Great to see him back!!!
I almost totally lost this photo (and the few others that I really like from this gorgeous and magical fall-in-Alaska day in which I listened to Gordon Lightfoot’s Don Quixote CD while driving—and singing…. What a breath of fresh air that reminded me of the adventures with my high school friend who is no longer with us. We almost always played Gordon) due to my first major computer download misstep, which also affected the photos of the next day. Ouch! But thankfully I had saved the best images elsewhere.
Where is the sky? We’re supposed to be seeing a light blue sky with thin whispy clouds, which some of its less-exposed brothers and sisters have, which I mistakenly didn’t download before erasing them. Cry, cry. I did save a nearby uncle though, which has the sky. So thanks to miracle of Photoshop, someday this photo should become a complete image with sky.
[photo removed:
I discovering a way to retrieve the sky data from the RAW photo.
The symphony may be able to be finished after all!]
September 14th
Little Susitna River
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Richard brings in China under a more distant Anchorage International control tower
Canon G10 – 9/25/09
Related:
Power Under
I had been meaning to try this all summer. I figured this may be the last full moon before the snow falls at this elevation. And the sky was clear.
I had seen this done mainly by just one photographer in the lower-48, but I wasn’t sure if he had altered the color balance in Photoshop. But then I read in a book that moonlight is basically reflected sunlight, so it should be the same color temperature as daylight if exposed at the same brightness.
I started shooting about 4 hours before sunrise. All I could see was black and white, the eyes’ rods and cones only operating. The wind was constantly blowing, gusting to about 30 mph. I clicked a shot and was totally surprised as I looked in the camera’s monitor.
Sure enough, the sky was blue — Yes! But then to my amazement, I had no idea that all around me were vibrant, fall colors! I knew the climate 3,000 feet above Anchorage is quite different, but I hadn’t anticipated this. Wow!!!
Though it looks like daylight, this was absolutely shot on a moonlit night, a little less than 3 days after the full moon. The white dots are all stars, and perhaps a planet as well. Some of the photos show what I think are satellite trails, which I may post later. Apparently there are less stars visible on the right because the moon is more brightly illuminating the right side, as it’s not far to the right of this view.
September 7th 4 AM
Powerline Pass near Flattop Mountain
Official sunrise/sunset times for Anchorage, Alaska, Sep. 7th:
7:07 AM & 8:46 PM
Daylight white balance, so this is how it would also look shot with daylight film
Canon 5D Mark II with medium wide-angle lens
very windy
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Above Winner Creek
(super-wide-angle lens)
I’ve had the privilege of working with (and in this case for) some incredible people,
and Steve is definitely remarkable!
Here he painstakingly puts finishing touches on Kelly’s truck,
which he and I “built up” on a 20-footer.
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3/20/09
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Self-portrait, 9/12/09
The convex shape of the mirror gives this somewhat distorted view
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Hand-held self-portrait —
dimensions stretched by super-wide-angle lens
I just finished reading most of a very helpful Lightroom book (Lightroom 2: Streamlining your digital photography process by Nathaniel Coalson), so I should have some photos posted soon.
Perhaps there is a good side to this Photoshop glitch. As I had considered before, Lightroom may end up being my main processing tool, for which I would then only then go to Photoshop for things Lightroom can’t do.
I very much appreciate Coalson’s writing style. Based on the later copyright date and how clearly it’s written, it’s obvious this book wasn’t thrown together to meet a publisher’s deadline, like so many computer books are. Though it still doesn’t cover everything that Lightroom can do : (
Also, the fall colors are finally hitting Turnagain Arm and the lower elevations in Anchorage, so I hope to get some colorful shots during the next few days.
God bless!
Jeff : )
I thought I’d give a brief update for those wondering. If anyone has a suggestion, I’m all ears.
I’m still getting washed out colors in Photoshop CS4 after installing Apple’s Snow Leopard Mac update, so I’m still unable to post photos. But what does one do when the answers aren’t readily available on the web and Adobe’s and Apple’s updates don’t fix the problem?
Apparently, this isn’t a problem experienced by many. This is the closest thing I could find: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2241115;jsessionid=351ABE01460D7759344B22968650ADD8.node0.
And no one has a solution for him. And this is Adobe’s own forum!
Plan B:
I do use another Adobe program called Lightroom for some things, and its colors still rock. So it looks like I’m going to have to learn how to do it all in Lightroom until I get this bug worked out.
It’s too bad we can’t get brain plug-ins to augment the areas we’re personally underpowered in. We all have those areas, right? Like I could use a geek plug-in: the ability to easily figure out how to use software. But then we wouldn’t need to work together — God’s wise design.
I look forward to the day when His kingdom, ONE happens in our midst — the body of Christ — each doing their unique parts — working together as ONE….
Can you smell the roses? We can do it. Why wait?
Thanks,
Frustrated! (but excited as I have some cool images to post. And I got these new glasses…)
For those interested:
I had planned on doing a lot of ‘landscape’ photography this summer, but I ended up focusing on flowers mostly instead. Now that flowers are over with and the fall colors are out, I’m hitting the landscape hard. I’m very excited!
Eagle River Road has glorious fall colors! I shot some photos yesterday, and made it to Hatcher Pass too. Upper portions of Hatcher Pass are already beyond their peak.
Turnagain Arm and Girdwood apparently still don’t have the colors fully going yet. It’s interesting how elevation and proximity to the ocean varies starting dates of the display so much. I hope to spend some time there shooting areas I’ve scouted out. It’s hard to get it all done, having to work a real job and the weather not usually ideal.
I shot a photo of Powerline Pass at 4am on 9/7 (2.5 days after the full moon) that really turned out cool. I was only seeing in black and white (rods and cones), but when I took the shot, exposed for daylight (something I’ve wanted to try for awhile), wallah! Fall colors extravagant!!! What a surprise that was! I’ll put up the blue-sky-with-stars image later.
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Harry at his Goodbye to NWA party
6/28/08
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Don leaves the stage to play next to an audience member at the Goodbye to NWA party
6/28/08
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Kelly, Al, Don & Harry
They called themselves the Non-Revs, or something like that,
playing at Harry’s Goodbye to NWA party
6/28/08
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Equestrian juggler at the Alaska State Fair, 9/2/09