But then, puffins are pretty damned awesome too. I’m going to have to go with puffins on this one. For now.
Posts Tagged ‘daily photo’
Bonus Photo: Urchin HDR
Sea urchins are awesome. That’s all I have to say.
Daily Photo: I see you
Not the best from yesterday, but I am having trouble connecting to the hotel wireless long enough to upload everything. And I’m still making some HDRs of the bay. But I really like how this one turned out. I was taking a picture of something else and heard a squawking behind me. I loved over my shoulder and this guy was giving me the evil eye.
Newport has been great. I’m sad to be leaving it for Portland today. Our feet cannot take much more in the way of walking. I am looking forward to a week of sitting in my office looking for jobs and working on freelance projects.
Bonus Photo: Sarah HDR
Sarah actually stands still long enough while contemplating the ocean for me to take multiple shots of her for HDR combining. There’s a bit of haloing on her, but I’ll take it because I like everything else.
Bonus Photo: Ecola State Park II
Here’s another HDR shot of the opposite direction in Ecola State Park. This is a place in the park called Indian Beach, by the way.
Bonus Photo: Ecola State Park
Here’s one of the landscape photographs that I was talking about. I was shooting at 28mm on this. The clouds are of course way more interesting than in real life, thanks to the HDR magic.
Daily Photo: HDR Tide Pool
I never can quite get HDR right, but I thought this one turned out okay. Tide pools, with all the texture and detail and strangeness seemed like a good target for HDR (high dynamic range) photography. I think ultimately landscapes and indoor shots are still the best targets, but these turned out in an interesting fashion.
Daily Photo: Racing Snail
This is one of the coolest looking snails I have ever seen in person. Lighting here was with assistance from Tina Connolly and snail wrangling by Sarah Tolbert. The photos of this little guy were a group effort. It was a lot of fun. I should always bring a couple of assistants with me on my photo shoots.
Daily Photo: Multnomah Falls
It was hard to pick exactly which Multnomah Falls photo I should make today’s photo. It’s really hard to screw up a photo of such an impressive waterfall, so I have quite a few that I like. I’m settling on this one because it’s the closest I come to showing the full experience of the falls. Kind of sad though that I forgot my neutral density photo, so I wasn’t have to slow the shutter down and see what a waterfall looks like at 1 second exsposures. I’ve got it on me today, and there is a waterfall at the Japanese Gardens… and of course at the ocean, I can take one of those awesome long exposures as the sun goes down and get a sea of smooth silky foam. I just don’t get to take many pictures of water in Colorado.
Bonus Photo: Osprey in the Chinese Gardens
Yesterday, a fellow Grinnellian and friend of a friend (and now just friend) Dan met us at the Chinese Gardens and generously paid for our admission within. As the ticket taker took our tickets, he said, “If you hurry to the bridge, you can see the osprey.” I was a little startled by this, because the Chinese Gardens are really out of place.” They’re in Downtown Portland, at the edge of Chinatown, and you just don’t expect to see their verdant grounds, let alone a beautiful bird like this.
As promised, the osprey was perched on one of the curved roof pieces on the pagoda overlooking the pond. It was clear that it was looking for a meal, but a nearby scrub jay was not pleased with the predator’s presence. Repeatedly, the jay dive-bombed a bird ten times its size, then flitted back into the heavy brush of a tree. The osprey looked around startled each time, unsure of what was happening. After about five minutes of this, it gave up and flew away. I’m always stunned by the wingspan of these birds. Unfortunately, it didn’t fly in a direction conducive to a good movement shot. But I have this shot to remember it by.
