It’s been a while since I updated this blog.  I’m glad I’m getting more time to take photographs.  This is an HDR (High Dynamic Range) photograph.  It was taken on Sunday, June 6.  The weather wasn’t so good when I first arrived.  There was heavy cloud cover and haze and it started raining.  Later, the rain stopped and the sun broke through the clouds to create a great sunset.  The final photograph is a composite of five photos with different exposures and then processed with HDRSoft’s Photomatix software.  Comments are welcome!

This shot was made as I was looking for an image for a meeting of our camera club.  This robin settled in to a tree in our back yard and was eying the red berry on the nearby branch.   The temperature yesterday was right at 32 degrees and there was some freezing rain, as you can see on the branches.  I took the shot through a window and was a bit concerned if I’d get a good image.  All in all, it worked out OK.  Comments are welcomed.

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Our cat, Kinsey, was the subject of this photograph.  She was sleeping as I was preparing to take her picture.  Just as I was ready she woke up and gave me the “Cat Stare Down”, showing me she was peeved because I disturbed her.

This picture was recently published in a book by David Busch called “David Busch’s Digital Photography Bucket List:  100 Great Digital Phots You Must Take Before You Die”.   David is a member of our camera club, The Cleveland Photographic Society.  He proposed his idea of using club member’s photographs in this book that he wanted to write.  Over 2500 photographs were submitted and a panel of members, along with David, selected the 100 photos from that group.

We recently had a book signing event for the book.  David and 37 of the photographers with photos in the book signed books at a local bookstore.  We may have broken the record for the number of authors signing a single book!  It will be fun to see whether we’ll be in the Guinness Book of World Records.  In the meantime,  Kinsey is demanding the best food that Fancy Feast offers.

Here’s something different from my earlier posts.  While walking near the Flats in Cleveland I spotted this trio of doors.  I found myself remembering the old “Let’s Make a Deal” program where contestants had to choose from three doors to possibly win valuable prizes.  Somehow I don’t think there were any valuable prizes behind these doors.

I like the symmetry of this image.  I went with the black and white treatment, though there was little color in the original.

This image is the color version of the previous post.  The crop may be slightly different.  Which do you prefer, the black and white or the color?  I like the b&w, which is probably because I started out with b&w photography.

This is another shot from our Yosemite adventure.   There were so many good spots for photographing Yosemite Falls but I wanted to see if I could find a different angle.  I wandered into the woods and found this.  I’ll post the color version next.

This is my first attempt at taking an Infrared photograph.  In late August I purchased a used camera body that had been converted for IR use and a book by Deborah Sandidge to help me learn how to process IR images.  Since then I’ve taken more IR shots and will be posting some of them here.