HDR Clouds

#113 Enhancer

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Sept 22, 2009 – Have some experiments in one aspect of HDR photography, the sky. HDR (High Dynamic Range) techniques allow expression of a wider dynamic range than film or photographic prints or computer monitors can normally display. The human eye does much better than those approximations. On Friday, Sept 11, 2009 some weather was blowing up in the western Gulf of Mexico, as I was heading for Texas World Speedway (TWS) in College Station. It was obviously going to be a wet weekend, a challenge to our drivers and hopefully one that would present some nice cloud shots, if we weren’t completely flooded.

Caelum Moor

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September 5, 2009 – Caelum Moor, at the time of this writing, was a sculpture park in Arlington, Texas (halfway between Fort Worth and Dallas) that held several large stone sculptures by Norm Hines between 1986 to 1997. Think Stonehenge with later Celtic influence in over 250 tons of Texas pink granite. It was to be the centerpiece of a business development that went bankrupt. It currently (2009) lives in disassembled status in a water treatment plant warehouse in Arlington. There are some folks trying to get it reassembled at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium. Future unknown

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Experiment in Publishing

Welcome to one corner of my world. In this blog I hope to share some of my joy in photography. I’ve been practicing since the mid-1950′s, one day may get it right. The Galleries will show you both recent work and items going back many years. Older photographs and print negatives have tended to fade with time, results of the scans vary widely. Slide film has survived much better (Kodachrome was good stuff). You comments and questions are welcome.