I was out in a local trail area called the Enduro Trail. Its part of the Kisatche National Forest area in Louisiana and its geared towards ATV usage. And this year the majority of the areas had gone through a controlled burn to “help” mother nature along. I’m not a big fan of controlled burns. Mother nature did just fine on her own before we came along to “help” out. Anyways getting off of my soap box the purpose of my trip was to get out of the house and take some landscape & HDR images as 2008 has been a slow year for me photographically speaking. Winter Mushrooms is the 1st HDR image I’ve processed out of the collection of photographs taken from that session and I’m loving it. The image seems to really stand out in its coloration without being surreal as so many images on the net seem to appear with the HDR technique applied to them nowadays. So yea, this is it. HDR applied realistically.

I recently had to travel to Charleston South Carolina for some family issues and while in town I had a few hours early in the morning to wander about the shore.  I took my camera with me and of the photos I took this is one of my favorites.

This duckweed was taken at Chicot State park at around noon. It was hot with no wind out but the photo demanded to be taken…

So here we go, round 3 with WordPress. I keep coming back to WordPress again and again. They must be doing something right. This image was taken at Chicot State park in Central Louisiana near Bunkie. A lot of photoshop work later this was the end result and I have to say I really like the dark moodiness of it.

In early December 2007 I was to be found walking a small loop trail over at Raymond B. Diaz State Park in Eastern Texas. Much to my surprise I found a pair of water Moccasins. One was Male and one was female. This one decided to pose for me while the other (larger) one was running away.. I used the 300mm lens and had some distance between me and the critter before I started shooting.

Taken while working at Fort Lewis, Washington.  The landscapes out there are awesome and I have to go back someday during the summer.

A flower that was photographed at the Texas ren fest. I wish I could identify it and grow some at my place. But I as of yet have not figured this one out.

The thing about photography for me is always the image that I wasn’t expecting to come out of my camera.  I’m still at the stage in which most of the shots I expect will come out and at the same time I’m hoping they will come out.  The skills are getting better….. but a lot of it is still luck and location.

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