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2013-05-23 21:44:32 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

1072 images were taken to make this high resolution multi focus panorama of a hibiscus flower. It's something like a 10x5 grid and at each part of the grid, I took a photo, changed the focus, took another, and so on in order to get the entire depth of field in focus.

End result, can print it 10 feet wide and still see all the detail
#floralfriday   #hqspflowers   #plusphotoextract  

2013-05-19 15:26:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Tulip fields. 
The blurring of the litle highlights and shadow details, intensifies how we perceive the color. 
#SOOCSunday curated by +John Kosmopoulos

2013-05-18 00:34:56 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Weaving a blanket in the tulip factory.
#floralfriday  

2013-05-16 19:53:23 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Tulip fields abstract
#10000photographers  curated by +Robert SKREINER 

2013-05-12 18:35:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

The Rush of Spring
Tulip field abstract
#hqspflowers  

2013-05-11 22:59:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Color to feed the soul
Tulip field abstract
#hqspflowers  

2013-05-02 15:04:28 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Yesterday's photo of the tulip farm was to give context to the forthcoming series of abstract photos made from the rows of tulips.
#hqspflowers  

2013-05-01 15:31:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival 2013. Woodburn, OR

2013-04-30 16:56:53 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Lines of power


2013-04-30 16:58:03 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 33 +1s)

Born of fire (mirror)
#mirrormonday  
#plusphotoextract  #creativesnowsunday   #skysunday   #moodymonday   #hqspart

2013-04-27 16:35:39 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

3 layer sundae. 
Icelandic volcanic rock. Icelandic ice. Icelandic snow.
#stonesaturday  

2013-04-25 19:14:04 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

The torrid rush of a glacier seems like a river, when seen from the time scale of a stone cliff


#ThirstyThursdayPics# by +Mark Esguerra  and +Giuseppe Basile 
#LandscpapePhotography +Landscape Photography  by +Margaret Tompkins  +Carra Riley +paul t beard  +Ke Zeng  and +David Heath Williams 
#BreakfastClub +Breakfast Club  by +Gemma Costa 
#BreakfastArtClub +Breakfast Art Club  by +Simply Arlie  and +Christian Höfgen 

2013-04-25 16:19:03 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

do the eyes that look down on our snowglobe, see a glowing shimmering dance of green and magenta, or are they used to the sight, and see it as a tourist chotchke they bought to remember the big bang?

The 8mm fisheye shows 180 degrees of the sky. This is one frame of a timelapse I did in Iceland last month.

#LandscapePhotography #plusphotoextract   #lowanglephotography   #wideanglewednesday  +Landscape Photography +Low Angle Photography +Wide Angle Wednesday 
#hqspnaturalother  

2013-04-21 20:59:25 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

The northern lights danced on the tightropes of the bridge without care of falling

#skysunday  

2013-04-20 22:01:03 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 30 +1s)

Black sand beach from above. #iceland   #hqspnatureother  

2013-04-19 21:48:43 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

A few distant auroras above a glacier. The light trail on the ground is +John Paul Caponigro walking down to the glacier with a flash light
#startrails   #astrofriday  

2013-04-17 16:31:13 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 18 +1s)

This panorama was taken in southeast iceland. When the radiation from the solar storms hit further north than you, the northern lights appear as a line across the northern horizon.#landscapephotography #WideWednesdayPanorama

2013-04-16 16:05:38 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Icebergs, on a beach, underneath the northern lights. It doesn't get much more surreal than that for a california kid.
#hqspnature   #plusphotoextract  

2013-04-13 21:52:55 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

960GB SSD for only $599!!! Amazon now has it for preorder, supposed to be shipping momentarily.
This will replace my goflex 1.5TB external drives in my on the road workflow. Yes the SSD is still expensive but less than half the price it was for 1tb sized before this drive. 
Still 5x more expensive than hard drives, but the SSD is more than 5x as fast, esepcially when dealing with lightroom preview files.
It's only 7mm high so you could replace your internal notebook drive with this.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BQ8RGL6/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=bryforgal-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B00BQ8RGL6&adid=10KJ2GQHRJY37QBC5WN9

2013-04-11 16:29:03 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The lego mosaic occupies a large wall in the gallery. It's made from about 3000 lego minifigures and is 4 feet wide by about 6 feet tall. I photographed each individual piece, and wrote a program that put out a spreadsheet that told me how to assemble the final piece.
#mosaicmonday   #fineartpls   #allthingsred   #wherewednesday #waywednesday   #theoreticalthursday   #coastalthursday   #hqspart  

2013-03-07 19:03:30 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 38 +1s)

Humpback Whale, Alaska
#hqspnature  

2013-02-22 20:54:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

The sea foam flows past, jostling and gradually melting the glacier travelers

#iceland   #filterfriday  (neutral density)

2013-02-22 10:06:21 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 37 +1s)

Dark sand mixed with glacier ice and sea water, with a splash of waves. Best served on the rocks. — at Iceland.
#thirstythursday #hqsppromotion #plusphotoextract

2013-02-19 01:37:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Mannequins have existential angst too...
#moodymonday  

2013-02-11 18:53:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

Endless rolling pin

2013-01-25 18:57:28 (17 comments, 7 reshares, 67 +1s)

Surferless north shore wave. 
Oahu, Hawaii.
#plusphotoextract   #hqspnaturalother  

2013-01-17 16:41:21 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 22 +1s)

Diamond on the rough.
This is a mini iceberg that floated out of iceland's iceberg lagoon and ended up back on the dark sand beach.
#plusphotoextract  
#coastalthursday  +Coastal Thursday 
#HQSPNaturalOther by +Eric Delcour  +Blake Harrold 

2013-01-16 18:14:38 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Beneath the surface, everything is calm even when the storm approaches.
#landscapephotography  +Landscape Photography 
#wideanglewednesday

2013-01-08 19:09:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

With a barrier of rocks we protect ourselves from the waves, but then all it takes is a little drop to make ripples in the calm.
#seatuesday
#landscapephotography  

2012-12-28 19:04:46 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 27 +1s)

Big cards vs. Many small cards
128GB CF for $170 64GB COMPACT FLASH FOR $85

One of the many arguments/religions of serious photographers is whether to use many small memory cards (these days 8gb or 16gb) or a few big cards. 

Today Amazon is having a sale on 128GB compact flash and 64gb compact flash made by brand name Lexar (tho they are 400x rather than the fastest 1000x)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/discussion/A255GY6XQM6GKK/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_gb_eSE3qb0RN6FEN


Here's my take on the big vs. small cards

MISSING A SHOT vs. SMALL CHANCE OF LOSING ALL SHOTS
Murphy's law guarantees your memory card will be empty at the critical moment. Any time you are shooting action you have the chance to miss the decisive moment. Yes, can change the card early but then you need that many more small cards and increase your risk of losing one.
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2012-12-26 01:44:42 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Shooting in to the light causes the lens to reflect off the underwater dome. 
In this specific instance I kind of like the frame it provides for the whales, gives a little sense that I was there.
#hqspanimals  

2012-12-24 01:58:38 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Above and below the inside of a wave.
#fineartpls curated by +Marina Chen 
  #lowanglephotography  curated by +Jeremy Lavender 
  #splashsunday  curated by +Christy Martin 

2012-12-11 17:48:43 (11 comments, 2 reshares, 20 +1s)

A place for a moment.
Molokai bathtub recorded in infrared.
#treetuesday #plusphotoextract   #hqspart  

2012-12-09 17:57:20 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

The ancient hawaiian forest on the top of Molokai. #zensunday  

2012-12-05 22:52:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

Not just washed but spun rinsed and tumbled. With free salt and sand scrub. 
#washedwednesday   curated by +Luca Gerardi  and +Francesco Gola 

2012-12-04 20:35:15 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 33 +1s)

The Wild Sea, she bangs her head and whips her hair, to the tune of these heavy metal rocks
#seatuesday  

2012-12-04 20:33:48 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

The end of the day sunlight streams through a calm moment in the waves   #moodymonday   #seatuesday  

2012-12-02 20:41:14 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

The sunset seen through the tumultous water just after the underwater vortex of a wave has spun through. I may or may not have been upside down when taking this picture :) #splashsunday  +HQSP Vivere Memento 

2012-11-30 16:59:41 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

How long can you wait? Of course you can be right there when the wave hits, or you can duck under the wave early and live to fight another day. Or you can ride the line between the two. Since I'm able to post these, I guess you know what side of that line I chose.

2012-11-29 19:10:01 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 26 +1s)

Getting thrown around in the 5-7 ft. shorebreak. I'm glad I didn't break any bones.
#ThirstyThursday  

2012-11-17 21:10:28 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 39 +1s)

Sunset isn't always about color.
#sunsetsaturday   #hqsppromotion   #plusphotoextract     #hqsplandscape   #landscapephotography   #molokai #hawaii   #hsqspmonochrome   #toomanyhashtags  

2012-11-15 21:56:44 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 16 +1s)

Tonga Coral. Far from the ravages of toxic sunscreen, tonga has an amazing Coral beds very near the surface of the ultra clear water.
#thirstythursday  

2012-11-14 20:18:41 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 40 +1s)

Humpback whale, Kingdom of Tonga.
#wildlifewednesday #hqsppromotion   #plusphotoextract  

2012-11-12 17:30:10 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 24 +1s)

On the canals of venice, the late commute home. 
#moodymonday  

2012-11-11 18:20:22 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Mud bubble popping.
Iceland utilizes this close to the surface heat, to power almost the entire country with geothermal power.
#iceland   #geothermal 

2012-11-07 20:06:29 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

Walking on, walking on, walking on broken ice
Icelandic glacier.
 #travelthursday

2012-11-07 18:24:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Icelandic house.
#windowwednesday  

2012-10-26 21:24:50 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

Reykjavik concert hall. #iceland   #infraredfriday  

2012-10-18 16:59:17 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

In iceland, there are vast fields of purple lupine. Apparently it was brought in to control erosion but has spread out of control. The locals consider it a weed, but I can't help but think it's pretty. 
#longexposurethursday   #purple  

2012-10-16 17:32:41 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Solitary rock spire. South coast of Iceland. 
#seatuesday  curated by +Julia Anna Gospodarou +Sea Tuesday