Oakland California Temple

Rainy Oakland morning

Looking upward

A new vantage

Synergy

St. George

A new look to this grand lady of the temples.

Thanksgiving Point Painter

Not sure I'm done with this one or not, but I thought I'd throw it up against the wall - see how it sticks.

Mesa Temple at sunset, with a full moon.

I sill have a few to edit, but I know a nice young couple that I met at the temple along with a certain outstanding photographer here in town are expecting to see these posted tonight. This type of photography is something I'm still learning about and good photographs begin in the camera. I'll probably have a few more posted before I hang it up tonight.

This one looks a little soft here, but you should see the 13x19 I made for myself.

I'm leaving this one here at the end because it has some serious problems. I like the concept but the execution was lacking. I left in the lens flare and the track that the jet left as it approached Sky Harbor. It's kind of cool, but next time I'll wait until all celestial objects have passed. On the original (I scale these way down) you can see stars in the sky.

What do you think about the lens flare though? I notice that more and more photographers are leaving that in, calling it "intentional".

Finally, if that young couple who brought their kids to the temple for some hand's on learning tonight ever finds this post, send me a note, I'd like to say hi.

HDR

Well, these are a little lame, well, they're pretty lame, but at least I've finally gotten around to experimenting with high dynamic range. I've tamed the software pretty much. Now I just need to shoot some interesting scenes. Here's a couple of experiments from tonight in the back yard. You can be sure I'll be deleting these and replacing them with something much better before too long...