The Neighborhood

I took a break from working this afternoon and noticed these wild looking clouds and the beautiful light of late afternoon and had to grab a photo...

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Patio Furniture

Here's a view that caterpillar might have had the other day when he blew across the bricks.

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Caramel Apple Stand

The San Juan County Fair is upon us. This evening I was called upon to join a group of people to judge the Photography exhibit. Wow that's difficult to do. So many very good photos to consider. Anyway, we finally finished around 9:00 or so and I went out to see how the carnival people were doing getting things set up for tomorrow and maybe shoot a few photos for myself. So I got some of rides being assembled, and of people doing last minute adjustments to their fair booths, but this one is my favorite.

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West Side Sun

We went out to Whale Watch Park today with our friends from Switzerland, and WE SAW WHALES! So we felt very good that the whales were there for our friends. Seems like most of the time when we go out there, we've just missed them by 1/2 hour, or we find out later they came by a 1/2 hour after we left. So today was good. This photo was shot after they were gone and we had just finished our picnic lunch. Very warm afternoon with the sun beating down. Good times.

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Before the Sunset

The sky yesterday about 1-1/2 hours before that awesome sunset. I wish I would have been able to go somewhere with a good view to shoot that, but I guess this will have to do - This is looking toward the West down our street while there were rumblings of thunder in the skies.

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Angry Sky

First of all, yeah I know - I need to change the name of this blog back to "An Occasional Photo" or something like that rather than "Photography Every Day".... I've been missing a lot of days lately. It's all my other blog's fault, honest! But anyways, here's one for today - This is the sky right before it opened up and dumped on us for about 15 minutes. (well maybe 30 minutes before...) It's from several exposures all combined into one HDR and I enhanced it a bit with Photoshop and Lightroom. Shot it from my front yard on my lunch break.

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The Landing

Here's another shot from last night's little excursion down to the waterfront. This time, looking away from that sunset toward Spring Street Landing.

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Port Sunset

I looked outside just before sunset and said, "Honey, let's run down to the port and shoot a photo!" Well, you know me - about 134 frames later, I came up with something. Luckily, she got a chocolate ice cream and rather than being bored and impatient with me, she said "No worries - I'm golden".

I'm pretty sure that's why photographers call it Golden Hour.

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Roche Harbor Resort

Roche Harbor Resort on Memorial Day Weekend. This was shot during the Colors ceremony - their daily retiring of the colors (taking the flags down) at sunset.

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Wheelbarrow

It was a gorgeous day today and we're hoping for more of the same tomorrow so we can get outside and play in the backyard. We might be putting this old boy to work hauling some dirt around to make a raised-bed garden. Or we may just sit there on our patio and relax and think about hauling dirt around.

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Dandelion Sunset

A little bit of orange sunset sky dancing on the driveway with the dandelions. (with a little HDR thrown in for added drama).

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Elwha Arrives

This is the ferry Elwha coming into Friday Harbor.

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Little League on the Hudson

Today we decided to check out the west side of Manhattan after a quick jaunt on the Roosevelt Island Tram (on the east side), (which we got on by just swiping our MTA cards). (Gotta love those things). Anyway, after that a quick bus ride to the west side and a great lunch at the Boat Basin Cafe, followed by a stroll along Riverside Park only to find out the bike rental place was closed. But what a great park! Kids playing little league in the shadow of an old abandoned elevated freeway, and lots of cool stuff to look at on the waterfront too.

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Bethesda Terrace

We explored part of Central Park today and saw the hawk Pale Male and his nest. After that we walked over to Loeb Boathouse and Bethesda Terrace & Fountain. What a beautiful peaceful place in the middle of all that metropolis! On the way back for the night we passed St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Avenue and East 50th St. and I just had to peek inside. So again today, I couldn't pick just one photo.

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NYC Pizza

One of the things on my NYC to-do list is try some east-coast pizza and see what all the fuss is about. So tonight we stopped into a small italian/pizza joint and I got my chance, but I FORGOT! I was so tired and hungry I just ordered some pasta that sounded good and it wasn't until we were leaving that I thought about pizza... Oh well - there will be other opportunities. And besides, I did remember my photo.

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Grunge

I was reviewing my "Garden Shed" photo from a few days ago, and along with the words choppy and sharp-edged (in its description), the word "Grunge" popped into my head. So I thought for today's photo I'd try to shoot some Grunge. Think Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc...

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The Place

The Friday Harbor waterfront as viewed from the ferry dock. 

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Mower

I found the mower in the shed. But this isn't it. This one belongs to my folks. This would eat our little wimpy mower for lunch. So yeah, no - I didn't want to go through this again so I borrowed a mower today that could handle the job.

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Garden Shed

Yep. Time to find that mower and dig it out of the shed - I know it's in there somewhere. This is me playing with HDR photography (High Dynamic Range). I did 9 shots of this scene going from way underexposed to way overexposed, and then combined them all into one, utilizing the best exposure value for different areas of the scene. There are lots of different styles of HDR imagery - I tend to like the choppy, sharp edged style like this. (as you can probably tell from all the other choppy, sharp edged non-HDR stuff I've been posting all year).

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