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Fishing

16 East

Lunch Run

Doorway on Plaza Rubio

Light and Shadow

Swapping Lies

Midnight on Lot No. 10

Actually, this is a composite of two pictures. The light posts are in Lot No. 10 which is where I park my car when I go to work. The moon shot was taken from my balcony. I had been reading an article about merging shots, so I layered these two with the moon shot on top. I fooled around with the opacity, and this is what I got. I have no idea how to do it again. 8-( I'd call it beginners luck.

Week No. 2

Ghostly Pumpkin

Shot in RAW
Converted to .tiff
Tonemapped
Tweaked levels and curves in Photoshop
Converted to B&W using channel mixer layer
Contrast and sharpness tweaked with Photo Retouche

Los Dos Amigos

Week No. 5

Window Garden

It was raining too hard to go out and do anything, so this is a shot of my neighbor's back window.

Raw conversion.
Tone mapped in Photomatix.
Converted to black and white with Photo Retouche.
Toned to look like a platinum print.

Valley Oak

Condo in Hell

Light Industry

Back Porch

Exotic Woods

Alano Club

De La Guerra Street

Exit

Week No. 15

Living on Board

Playing around with B&W. Raw conversion. We've been having heavy overcast and fog all week. This was all I could come up with. The sun was trying to come out, but not very hard.

Week No. 8

Form vs. Function

In my parallel universe I'm a weaver and textile junkie. I love fabric, especially silks and satins, and am fascinated by their texture and drape. This is a manequin in the window of a bridal shop down the street from where I work. It was shot through a window.

RAW converted to .jpeg and b&w.

Week No. 4
Faria Beach

This is an HDR from three shots. After tone mapping, I converted it to B&W.

Week No. 3
White Pumpkin

Pretty much the same treatment as I gave the picture from Week No. 2.

Pelicans

Week No. 1

New Year's Morning

I hadn't signed up for the PAW project yet, but I did take this on January 1, 2007. It's a window in a bungalow court apartment. I love the Santa jack-in-the-box and the Chinese writing in the upper right. Yes, that's a reflection of me in the lower right.

Hotel Californian

Mision Creek Estuary

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Lensbaby :

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SmugShots :

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My Pictures :

Updated: Jun 14, 2009 11:34am PST

Sunrise/Sunset :

Updated: Jun 13, 2009 8:50pm PST

June 2009 :

Updated: Jun 12, 2009 10:13pm PST

Updated: Jun 08, 2009 9:05pm PST

Black and White :

Black and White

Updated: Jun 05, 2009 8:57am PST

So far, these are experiments blending different images. I've also tr ...

Updated: May 23, 2009 11:07am PST

Night Photography :

Night Photography

Updated: May 10, 2009 8:19am PST

Bill's Wedding :

Updated: Feb 26, 2009 10:46pm PST

Blue :

Updated: Feb 24, 2009 7:43am PST

Urban Wandering

Found within six blocks of where I work.

Updated: Feb 20, 2009 10:39pm PST

Christmas, 2008 :

Christmas, 2008

Santa Ynez :

East De La Guerra St. :

East De La Guerra St.

Updated: Oct 24, 2008 8:05pm PST

Woodies : Taken at the 2008 Woodies at the Beach Sunday morning event on Stearns Wharf. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate and we had a rather nasty, gray sky.

Taken at the 2008 Woodies at the Beach Sunday morning event on Stearns ...

Updated: Aug 23, 2008 11:06am PST

Transportation :

Paul's Graduation :

Paul's Graduation

Windows :

Updated: May 15, 2008 6:59am PST

May, 2008 :

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Doors :

December 2007 :

Updated: Dec 16, 2007 5:21pm PST

Family :

Updated: Sep 18, 2007 6:51am PST

June, 2007 :

Updated: Aug 13, 2007 11:21pm PST

Photo a Week : I'm part of a group over at DPChallenge, and this gallery will contain pictures from my Photo a Week project for 2007. If you like, check out my PAW Almosts in this gallery: PAW Almosts

Below are the links to other PAW people: DPCers' PAW Links

jfriesen, obsidian, Twyla,
JMSetzler, Hopper, Lentil, Alienyst, gordon, snowflakejen,
gooc, Chaimelle, Wildcard

Nullix, Sacker, kteach,
karmat, nickp37, OtisXMike, jpochard, tlemetry, pug-H,
Chalice, ericwoo, ladyhawk22

TCGuru, saracat, mattmac,
matto, Acrotide, islandpaddler, L2, slickchik, lyleohm,
sacker, Alain , Raziel

Spazmo99, asimchoudhri, jrtodd, CRBalck,
witam, error99, bvlindalou

I'm part of a group over at DPChallenge, and this gallery will contain ...

Updated: Aug 05, 2007 11:16am PST

Photo a Week Almosts : These are photos that I really like, but not as much as the ones I chose for Photo of the Week.

Photo a Week Almosts

These are photos that I really like, but not as much as the ones I cho ...

Updated: Feb 26, 2007 6:45am PST

Christmas 2006 :

Updated: Jan 18, 2007 6:29pm PST

Old Photos :

Updated: Jan 17, 2007 6:49am PST

Black & White -- People :

Black & White -- People

Updated: Jan 06, 2007 9:40am PST

Small Pictures : Sometimes the most interesting pictures are details in the background. If you isolate them they are too small to enlarge into full-size pictures, but viewed small they have their own character.

Sometimes the most interesting pictures are details in the background. ...

Updated: Jul 11, 2006 12:35am PST

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