“Sea and Sky”
60-second exposure (with ND10 filter + in-camera ND5) turned this day of wind and surf into this dreamy image.
“Surfing Gulls”
“Dreaming Gulls”
The ND10 filter I was using at Bob Creek gave the original a horrible greenish cast, but reprocessing as monochrome it actually turned out OK.
“Glisten”
Tiniest mushrooms along the Ridgeline Trail. Had to thrash through some brambles to get this shot but it was worth it.
“Moss Flamingos”
Like lawn flamingos, but different.
“Cape Perpetua Spray”
I rather like the ethereal look of long exposures of crashing waves and foam. I need to find some subjects other than rocks to experiment with though. Fortunately stormy weather is pretty easy to come by at the Oregon coast.
“Cascade”
Trailside stream along the Glynn Creek Trail.
“Lights”
Pre-dawn moonlight and lighthouse at Heceta Head.
Plenty of surf around Cape Perpetua this morning (this is about halfway between low & high tide) (cc: @jean)
Good grief, something went horribly wrong in Darktable when I recropped that last photo. Here’s the square crop for comparison. Still trying to figure out what the computer thinks it’s doing…
Just a little piece of beach agate on my desk. I think this turned out OK, though there’s still room to experiment with the lighting. (Edit: This is not my definition of OK! See next post…)
“Quiet”
“Eugene Christmas”
Last year someone decorated a straggly little pine in our local park. This year the Parks department removed that tree as part of a fuel reduction effort, so the mystery decorator hung ornaments on one of the rhododendrons instead.
“Shiny”
People sometimes look at me funny when I’m down in the mud taking photos like this. I don’t really mind. My life is slow enough these days that I can afford to take some time & effort to appreciate the small beautiful things.
“Rhododendron”
Just a pic I liked from this morning’s walk in the rain.
“Winter’s Nap”
The older I get, the less interested I am in end-of-the-year think pieces, summaries, wrap-ups, and “best of” lists. Years pass so quickly at 66 years old that nothing less than a couple of decades seems really significant.
“Self-photobomb”
Fisheye fun atop Mount Pisgah
“Fluffed”
A cold morning for birds.
“Gills”
I was tempted to edit out some of the little imperfections of this mushroom but if I was going to do that I might as well just AI-generate the whole thing, which is an icky thought.
