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Photo of the Day: Heap of Shrooms

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I’m traveling today, which is why you’re getting this image a bit early. We’re bound for Oregon, lands of the beautiful fungi. I’m hoping to find some really spectacular specimens there to photograph. I’ve got my full kit packed for the trip, including my strobist gear. A few friends have expressed interest in sitting for a portrait while there, so I’m excited about that.

It’s going to be nice to take my mind off the job search and freelance hunt for a while. I want to decompress, reexamine my priorities. Brainstorm on some writing projects. I want to give Portland a long, hard look in determining whether I really do want to find a way to live there.

That’s my goal anyway. We’ll see how it turns out.

Daily Photo: Tree mycoid

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Exploding shrooms! These aren’t nearly as visually interesting as the photo I posted yesterday, but it’s like I said. Last weekend was a near total bust on the photography front.

I’m thinking of driving up to Rocky Mountain National Park early Saturday morning. If I can convince Sarah to get up with me anyway. She can sleep on the drive, which is about an hour. There’s a lot of big wildlife up there, and I think that would be fun to get some shots of with the new lens.

More likely though, I’ll stay home all weekend packing.

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Hi! My name is Jeremiah Tolbert, but you can call me Jeremy. I am a fantasy and science fiction writer, photographer, and web designer living in Northern Colorado. I am currently starting a new job and cannot take freelance work at this time. Drop me a line if you have any questions or comments. I love hearing from new people and I now have a lot more time to chat.

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New Podcast: The Girl With the Sun In Her Head 10:26 pm November 12, 2008
Filed Under: My Writing, My Writing/Podcast, Speculative Fiction/SF Podcasting, Speculative Fiction, Top Post
My story from Polyphony 4, and one of my earliest successful attempts at the short story (although your definition of success may vary from mine in this case), is now live as a podcast on PodCastle. You can give it a listen over on the PodCastle site, but if you’re into fantasy, you should subscribe [...]

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New Podcast: Arties Aren’t Stupid 10:55 pm October 11, 2008
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My story from the excellent anthology Seeds of Change (edited by the Anthology God, formerly known here as the Slush God, John Joseph Adams) has gone live over at Escape Pod. This is a story that was published to mixed reviews. But I am astounded by the job that Philippa Ballantine did here. Her reading [...]

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The New Dr. Roundbottom Podcast is Live 7:49 pm August 31, 2008
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Hi Folks. After a ton of work on the part of myself, Sarah, and my sound engineer and good friend Nate Periat, we’ve finished and posted our first Dr. Roundbottom Field Sounds podcast. It’s only 5 minutes long, so don’t hesitate to just go to the site and hit play. Please let me know what [...]

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Recommended: WALL-E 9:54 am June 29, 2008
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Do you remember that Disney CG film Dinosaurs? It’s original concept involved a feature length movie with animals that only emoted, and never spoke. Having always been a big fan of computer animation, I was excited at the early rumors of the film. Unfortunately, Disney execs got involved and the result was the talky-travesty that [...]

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Five reasons this book trailer rocks 9:37 am June 22, 2008
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I forget where I got this, but I think that it’s the level of quality I’d like to see in more book trailers online:

Having Tim Curry as a narrator is probably outside of the range of what we can afford as SF/F writers, but still. Let’s go over what makes this awesome:

Tight pacing. 2 minutes [...]

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Frozen Food Center (HDR)

A concrete building in Old Town, reminiscent of Soviet Russia. Once a warehouse of sorts, it is now a very badly maintained apartment building, at least from the outside. Hmm, that sky didn't look like that when I was working in photoshop. Single exposure RAW experiment.

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Vedawoo Trees

The trees of Vedawoo are twisted and gnarled by the high winds at that altitude much of the year. Not much grows up here, but what does is very hardy.

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Prayer Rock

From the right angle, these rocks look like praying hands, and I've always called them Prayer Rock. More haloing than I would like. I should probably process this one again, but I really like the foreground.

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Vedawoo Light

The sun was at one of those great angles where everything low was still in the shjade, but the rocks were lit brightly. This is the kind of shooting opportunity that HDR was made for. This is one of my favorites, and is in excellent focus compared to some others. No matter what your shutter speed, you _cannot_ handshoot HDR.

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Vedawoo, early dawn II

Another capture of the early dawn in Vedawoo, a rock formation in Wyoming. This reflects the pinkness of the sky very well.

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Vedawoo, early dawn

More of the Vedawoo rock formation in Wyoming. This is taken just barely after the sun came up. Everything was covered in frost and snow, resulting in a blue/pink miracle. 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.

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Vedawoo Dawn

The Vedawoo rock formations in Wyoming at dawn. It's not quite in focus. I need to work on my tripod locking. The blur I think comes from alignment issues.

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old water plant

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Rocky Outcrop (Landscape)

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rocky outcrop with stones

Trying to bring back the effect a bit. Was too much in the old version.

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Like Something Out of Myst No.2

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Like Something Out of Myst

Gotta look at these at large or higher size.

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