Jeremiah Tolbert

Another cap­ture of the early dawn in Vedawoo, a rock for­ma­tion in Wyoming. This reflects the pink­ness of the sky very well. Focus isn’t too bad on this one I think. Remember that you can click on the image over to Flickr, and click “all sizes” to see the image much bigger.

I had hoped to go shoot­ing in Rocky Mountain National Park today, but the weather is very over­cast, mak­ing for some not very inter­est­ing land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy. And my tele­photo is just too slow to go wildlife shoot­ing in this kind of light. Alas, alas. Another vaca­tion day wasted in the pur­suit of some­thing other than photography.

Heh. I just totaled up all the lenses, books, and light­ing tools that I would like to buy soon, and the grand total is $3958.13. For the price of a decent used car, I can have most of the lenses I want! I gotta sell more prints.

Less hyper-​​real, more true to the actual sit­u­a­tion. Oddly, a lit­tle bit of vignetting in the top left and right, but not else­where. I’m not sure how that hap­pened. Actually might be caused by the high­light smooth­ing, come to think. I’ve been try­ing to elim­i­nate the halo effect, which is what I like least in HDR, but it’s hard in these land­scape shots.

This is one of my favorites so far. Here’s one from this morning’s dawn work. Man, it was hard to get up that early, but totally worth it, despite nearly freez­ing my ears off.

An exper­i­men­tal one for Friday. B&W HDR, with some soft focus effects. Eh, it’s a learn­ing process.

Happy Thanksgiving. I am thank­ful for a lot of things, but espe­cially for your com­ments on my work. You keep me mov­ing for­ward. Thank you.

This is the orig­i­nal Fort Collins water pro­cess­ing plant, the very first one here. Before it was built, all sorts of water-​​borne dis­eases were a prob­lem in the area. I think it was built in the 1910s. It was closed up in the mid 80s. It makes me sad to see such a well-​​built build­ing sit­ting in a val­ley all closed up. I want to restore it, make it a place to live or some­thing. At the very least, can I go inside and do a model shoot pretty please?

For those of you look­ing for a desk­top image of yesterday’s photo, go check out this image, which is of the same rock, but is in land­scape. It’s miss­ing the river rocks in the fore­ground, but it’s still pretty neat.