Eastward Horizon

Carts

One might assume under normal circumstances that these carts had been moved to the back corner of a parking lot and knocked over by mischievous children, but in this case I am lead to believe that it was the work of the wind.

Tilt

Power Outage

Family

I'm off to visit some family for a couple of days. Merry Christmas!

Upstream

A few shots from my ride on Sunday. I spotted several salmon making their way upstream to spawn, but it was so dim under the trees overhead that I was unable to get any decent captures of them. Here is the best of what I got.

New Wheels

I have been talking about buying a new mountain bike for over a year. As you may have guessed it has finally happened. Though it's a shame that all of my favorite trails are in no condition for riding with all of the rain we've been having. For those who are interested, the bike is an '07 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Expert and it will be my primary mode of transportation for many photo sessions to come.

Oh, and since I know someone is going to ask why I don't have any pictures of myself with the bike...

Cold Condensation

Compositive

The Deed

The Journey Ahead

Ordinary Tree

Wired

Canine

Eye of the Beholder

The Morning Brew

γ

Look familiar? I know, I posted this photo of my family cat previously. However, in the previous posting Kati was a silhouette.

To explain why you are seeing the same photo of Kati (the cat) again: I was fiddling with adobe gamma in attempt to get a rather dark movie I was watching to brighten up a bit so I could see what was going on. I cranked the gamma up a fair bit. Alas, the movie didn't get any brighter. But of course everything else my monitor was displaying did lighten up a fair bit. Whilst I was doing this I noticed that a photo I had been editing looked grossly flawed with the gamma turned up. So, fearing that all of my photos would look equally flawed to viewers who have their displays set to a similarly high gamma, I opened up my little blog here to have a look. To my relief, the photos all looked quite the same, just a bit lighter. But one of them (above) seemed to improve dramatically in this semi-washed-out state. Maybe I am just losing it, but I love the new aesthetic of the image and I don't just mean the details it reveals.

Perhaps the high contrast and vivid appearance that I have been shooting for all this time (insert pun cliché here) is not necessarily the zenith of photographic beauty.

Where are the Berries?

Galvanic