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2013-05-17 17:19:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In case any of you photogs are in the need: http://tech.woot.com/

2013-05-16 04:14:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

#waterfallwednesday  

2013-05-16 04:14:16 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 23 +1s)

2013-05-15 15:31:44 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 28 +1s)

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Wanted to show a little love to the local area tonight. These fieles will be all dry and chopped here in a week or so. They sure to look good while they last though. Cheers. 
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#wheatgrass   #landscapephotography   #landscapephoto   #vacaville   #agriculture   #ropelatophtoography  

2013-05-15 00:38:08 (4 comments, 8 reshares, 27 +1s)

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As spring gives way to summer here in Vacaville, I fondly remember winter, especially in Yosemite National Park.  Man I miss the cold.  

Cheers.   

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2013-05-07 16:29:25 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 34 +1s)

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If you've ever been to Multnomah falls, chances are you were there with hundreds of other people. On this cold, raining morning, at 5:51am, I had the whole place to myself. There's something pretty special about that. Cheers. 
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2013-05-06 15:12:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

New shot up over on 500px.  It's called "Grand Morning"
#mountainmonday  
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2013-05-18 22:23:36 (11 comments, 6 reshares, 46 +1s)

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I didn't make it around the final bend on Oneonta Canyon. 

I tried mind you, but I didn't make it. 

Just as I started worrying about the water being deeper than my waders, I suddenly realized that my camera pack was half way under water. 

Dumb luck kept the only flooded compartment to the one I had pulled the lens out of. 

Cheers to applying for equipment insureance. 

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2013-05-01 20:38:26 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Wrights Lake, California

2013-05-01 20:37:14 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 24 +1s)

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Even after most of the light had faden, this view continued to command my attention.  What a spectacular place this is.  
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#landscapephotography   #landscape   #humpday   #photoplusextract   #photoextract  

2013-04-30 04:55:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-30 04:16:56 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 24 +1s)

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A great night of photography with my wife up near Jenner back in 2010.   cheers.  
 

Jared Ropelato

2013-04-29 20:57:57 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 28 +1s)

A little nighttime in the Valley

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2013-04-28 22:41:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Looks like I support Yahoo Weather.  Maybe you should too!  http://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/uns/audience/130425/1440x1024umr88sf2l.jpg

2013-04-24 20:48:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Added photos to SmugMug Cover Photo Submissions For May 2013.

2013-04-24 20:26:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I'm Jared Ropelato.  I'm a teacher and a photographer.  I live in California, but was born and raised in Boise, Idaho.  You can find me, and my photography on facebook, flickr, 500ps, G+, and hopefully someday on a SmugMug office wall!  Cheers.  -jared r. 

2013-04-24 20:11:48 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 25 +1s)

Racing by the Light of the Moon

2013-04-24 15:45:29 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 39 +1s)

I love that there is awesomeness everywhere we turn...

2013-04-23 15:38:19 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

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Having seen some great images of lupines this year from some other photographers, I decided to roll out after work yesterday and see what I could find. 
The first thing I found was a rattlesnake who seemed not to like my truck very much. Luckily, he backed down and went his own way. The altercation left me very cautious however as I hiked through the tall grasses on my way to the Lupine. 
Seeing the eastern shores of Folsom Lake blanketed in purple was pretty special, but I would have to say that the fresh flower smell was even better. 
I wasn't fortunate enough to have any clouds, so I minimized the sky and chose to go with some side lighting instead. 
If you can, I suggest you find your way over here and see this beautiful landscape for yourself. Super blooms like this only happen every 8 years or so.

Cheers,

JaredRop... more »

2013-04-22 20:28:41 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Very excited and honored to have been selected as the Pop Photo Magazine Photo of the Day with one of my recent shots!  
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2013-04-22 15:15:25 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

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Not quite the epic sunset  of Shasta with a lake reflection I was going for, but sometimes when life gives you mountains "peaking" thorugh the clouds, you make a photograph.  Well, that analogy didn't really work.  :o) 


Cheers.  

Jared Ropelato

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2013-04-22 15:10:27 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 31 +1s)

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It's the best things in life that we keep coming back to.  Cheers.  

Jared Ropelato

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2013-04-18 03:43:24 (10 comments, 11 reshares, 39 +1s)

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The natural world is simply amazing.  
A hundred year old tree, the sound of water falling from a mile away, rays of light traveling millions of miles…  
I must have stood here looking at this for forty-five minutes, listening to it.  Watching as the rainbows came and went, as the water fell down over the tallest waterfall in the United States, always different with the shifting wind.  I must have taken 50 photos without moving my camera, and they're all different.  The breath you take in a place like this is a whole different thing altogether.  Sometimes, when I'm in the grind, I feel like I'm running out of breath altogether, and then I get to a place like this… and I can breathe.    
Sitting here now looking at this image, I see the tree growing out of the cliff on the left side of the image, and I'm even more inawe.   I hope t... more »

2013-04-16 15:23:29 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

I usually like to post images, and not links to them, but I forgot to bring this one with me today!  Anywho, new image up over at 500px.  Check it out if you'd like.  Cheers!  -Jared Ropelato
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2013-04-15 13:28:20 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

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Just before the sun crests the horizon, the bottom of Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park begins to glow.  

If you've never seen this with your own eyes, please do.  It's a marvel of this world what happens to this rock.  

Cheers.  

Jared Ropelato

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2013-04-10 15:07:51 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Just wanted to give a shout out to +Leon Turnbull for his amazing Waterfalls West site and how wonderful of a resource it is for photographers.  Go check it out if you're unfamiliar, and definitely sign up, it's an unparalleled site for researching potential shots and hikes.  Cheers.  
-Jared Ropelato
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2013-04-09 16:31:26 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

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Not quite the epic sunset of Shasta with a lake reflection I was going for, but sometimes when life gives you mountains "peaking" thorugh the clouds, you make a photograph. Well, that analogy didn't really work. :o)

Cheers.

Jared Ropelato

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2013-03-25 16:41:59 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 30 +1s)

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Standing alone on the playa of the Race Track in Death Valley National Park under a full moon... It doesn't get much better than that. 
Cheers.

Jared Ropelato

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2013-03-20 04:52:00 (12 comments, 5 reshares, 42 +1s)

so, yea, just learning about sharpening for web.  Been doing it wrong.  

2013-03-18 20:35:33 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

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It’s a crazy notion to think that this world could be anything we choose it to be. I get lost in the minutia sometimes, nitpicking this and that, and allowing little distractions to take away from the beauty of it all. Standing up here though, on this headland, looking down at what man dared to dream, I remember to see the forest for the trees. I remember to use my imagination, and to appreciate what can happen when the best of mother nature and man come together. Standing here as night shifts to day, I realize, this is a dreamer’s world, and I should make the most of it. 
Cheers.

Jared Ropelato

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2013-03-12 16:15:46 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

Thanks to +David Thompson for the help with this location .  Make sure you check out his shot too.  (it's better!)  Cheers everyone and have a great week.  
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2013-02-26 16:55:39 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 35 +1s)

A long exposure of a small bridge in Montana Del Oro State park down near Morrow Bay

2013-02-18 19:50:07 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

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Little sunset color down by Montana Del Oro state park. 

2013-02-11 14:31:02 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 32 +1s)

Sticks and stones, they'll break my bones, but sticks in the sand, they soothe me.  

2013-02-10 23:40:38 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 30 +1s)

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Sometimes even when it seems like rain, amazing things come your way.  
 

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2013-02-08 14:39:17 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 36 +1s)

5 minute exposure of a storm rolling through Yosemite.  Hope you enjoy and thanks for any shares!

#photoextract   #photoextractplus   #landscapephotography  
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2013-02-08 01:14:28 (357 comments, 158 reshares, 1590 +1s)

Yesterday I stumbled across one of my images being used by Microsoft on their Bing Search page as the background where they also offered it as a free Bing desktop download.  They had purchased the rights to use the image back in November, but I had no idea how/when/where they would use the image.  Yesterday, it popped up on every windows phone in the world, Windows 8 computers at all major retailers, was seen by roughly 10 million people on Bing Search and was “liked” by over 7100 people.  One comment on Microsoft’s Bing Facebook page said: “best photo by Bing I’ve ever seen”.  As you can imagine, it all felt pretty awesome.  Anyway, I figured I’d share my excitement.

2013-02-07 02:03:04 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 21 +1s)

Microsoft Bing used my image as their background!

2013-02-03 22:37:48 (19 comments, 1 reshares, 65 +1s)

I really like Yosemite..., you know?

2013-01-31 20:57:44 (14 comments, 3 reshares, 36 +1s)

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The natural world is simply amazing. 
A hundred year old tree, the sound of water falling from a mile away, rays of light traveling millions of miles...
I must have stood here looking at this for forty-five minutes, listening to it. Watching as the rainbows came and went, as the water fell down over the tallest waterfall in the United States, always different with the shifting wind. I must have taken 50 photos without moving my camera, and they're all different. The breath you take in a place like this is a whole different thing altogether. Sometimes, when I'm in the grind, I feel like I'm running out of breath, and then I get to a place like this...,  and I can breathe. 
Sitting here now looking at this image, I see the tree growing out of the cliff on the left side of the image, and I'm even more in awe. I hope there are things inthi... more »

2013-01-28 14:47:10 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 46 +1s)

Caught a little EARLY morning fog before the sun came up in Yosemite this past weekend.  Man I love that place.  Where's your favorite place? 

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2013-01-24 21:16:05 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 37 +1s)

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Sometimes I feel like we tend to overstate a lot when explaining or describing things to people.  I was listening to Lous CK a while back and he was doing a bit about people using the words "awesome" or "amazing" to describe a sandwich.  His point was that by the time you actually have something in your life that inspires awe, you'll have wasted the word on a sandwich, and will have no words left with enough meaning to describe your wedding day or your first born child for example.  That being said, this sunset in Napa back in November of 2010, maybe have been the most beautiful I've experienced as a photographer or otherwise, and it sure as hell was awesome.  I hope you enjoy, and cheers.  

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2013-01-24 21:15:03 (4 comments, 6 reshares, 48 +1s)

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Sometimes I feel like we tend to overstate a lot when explaining or describing things to people.  I was listening to Lous CK a while back and he was doing a bit about people using the words "awesome" or "amazing" to describe a sandwich.  His point was that by the time you actually have something in your life that inspires awe, you'll have wasted the word on a sandwich, and will have no words left with enough meaning to describe your wedding day or your first born child for example.  That being said, this sunset in Napa back in November of 2010, maybe have been the most beautiful I've experienced as a photographer or otherwise, and it sure as hell was awesome.  I hope you enjoy, and cheers.  

Jared Ropelato

2012-12-17 02:25:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

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2012-11-05 23:05:48 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 32 +1s)

Grace

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Growing up in Idaho, I saw the Tetons on a fairly regular basis. Recently however, I trekked to the Eastern side of them specifically for photography. While there were no clouds to be found, the view was spectacular regardless. I can’t wait to head back again and try for some epic sky color.

Cheers, and have a great week.

-Jared Ropelato

#mountainmonday   #landscapephotography   #landscape   #photocascadia  

2012-11-01 17:58:04 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Got editor's choice on my image "My Friend Micah" over at 500px.  Happy little surprise for me today!  
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2012-10-31 13:40:52 (7 comments, 3 reshares, 37 +1s)

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Just a little something for Waterfall Wednesday!  This is Gibbon Falls in Yellowstone National Park.  

Cheers, and have a great week.  

-Jared Ropelato

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2012-10-22 13:48:01 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

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Layer Cake

A little fall color near Paradise Valley in Southern Montana.  

I had wanted to shoot to the East where the “big” mountains are, but they were all covered by these clouds as the snow began to fall.  So, I shot west.  Not a bad consolation prize.  :o)  

Cheers, and have a great week.  

-Jared Ropelato

2012-10-19 00:42:00 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 36 +1s)

A newer shot from Yellowstone in earlier October. Overlooking a bend in the Firehole river, a stormy sky parted just enough to let the setting sun light a blazing glow across the river valley. In the distance, geysers erupt and steam fills the air.
#PlusPhotoExtract, #thurstythursday , #landscapephotography   #landscapephoto   

2012-10-15 19:52:52 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

New Shot "Eruption" up over at Flickr!
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