Celebrating Fall: The Prairie

From our Raptor Photography Day:

Celebrating Fall: Guanella Pass

Guanella Pass, always a great place to view Aspens:

Celebrating Fall: Cottonwood Pass

Along the road to Cottonwood Pass:

Celebrating Fall: Kenosha Pass

From a Beaver Pond near Kenosha Pass:

52 Rolls Week #36: Garnet, Montana Revisited

We revisit Garnet, Montana.  This time in color with Kodak Portra 400:

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If you seen my recent film comparisons....not too thrilled by these muted colors.  

So I'm sticking with E-6 from now on.

Raptor Education Foundation Needs Your Help

The Raptor Education Foundation needs your help to fund a new Eagle Aviary.  They are adopting a juvenile eagle that has become imprinted on humans and cannot care for himself in the wild.  Read his story HERE.

Since he is a healthy bird he needs an aviary to be able to Fly. Please help him turn into a beautiful Symbol  for Our Country:

(Note:  The bird above is a current resident.  

Click on the link above to read the newest Rescue's story).

52 Rolls Week #33 Updates

Some experiments based on suggestions from 52 Rolls posted comments.

First lets revisit Portra 160 with warming filter:

The suggestion was to adjust the White balance and reduce the 'warming'.  Now I typically use warming filters with chrome films, which tend to be very blue.  Example below, same scene, Velvia 50 with warming filter:

Now lets look at Portra 160 with White Balance adjusted (in Photoshop Levels):

And Portra 160 with both the White Balance and Black adjusted (in Photoshop Levels):

This one is getting closer to the natural color, but still a bit off.  One viewer commented that your film choice is a reflection of your interpretation of reality.  I like that!  So I'll stick with the Chrome version of reality.

Revisit 52 Rolls Week #33

52 Rolls Week #35

Some experiments with exposure and Photoshop HDR.  View all the results here.

Mirror Lake, Snowy Range, Wyoming.

Remembering 9/11

A quiet and solemn Remembrance for 9/11

52 Rolls Week 34: A visit to Gross Dam & Reservoir

Two Photomerge Panoramas from Holga shots:

Above:  Photomerge of two images.  Below:  Shooting into the sun, a Photomerge of 3 images.  I liked the silhouette effect.

More images from my visit to Gross Dam posted on the 52 Rolls Project.

Peppers........

Not quite an Apocalypse....but more Peppers on the way:

Tomato Apocalypse

The Gardening Apocalypse has Begun.  More goodies than I can eat:

Striking Cloud Redux

Here an llford SFX-200 (Infrared-Sensitive) version of last week's Cloud.  IR makes the scene very dark:

Cropping Redux

My Husband had a slightly different take on Cropping this Scene:

As  reminder...Original Scene Below: