This week we took a driving trip, leaving Scottsdale and heading north to visit some great picture sites in Arizona and Utah. We did a 900 mile circuit through Arizona, Utah and Nevada before arriving back in Scottsdale today, Friday. Following is a Google map, showing the route we followed. Sorry about the image quality,…
Year: 2010
Salt River Canyon
This is a picture taken about a year ago. I’ve been going through my archives looking for pictures that might have been overlooked earlier when I made choices to process them for posting or printing. I have processed this one before, using a high dynamic range approach. I felt I could improve on that one,…
Tempe Town Lake
Tempe Town Lake is a reservoir that occupies a portion of the riverbed of the Salt River as it passes through the city of Tempe, Arizona just south of Scottsdale. On July 20, 2010, a portion of the west side of the dam that contained the water in the lake collapsed sending a flood of water into…
Saturation and Luminosity Masks
A little bit about Photoshop technique today, a new trick I’ve applied recently. For those who aren’t mildly interested, I’ll leave the technique description to the end. What I show first are two versions of the same photo, one with very little post processing and the second which I’ve treated using saturation and luminosity masks….
Canmore Sunset
In Canmore we see some pretty good sunrises and sunsets. Earlier this month , we had some particularly good ones including the one I’ve photographed for this post. We were relaxing with some friends on our rear deck when we noticed this sunset developing. I got some pictures and now I’m sharing one with you….