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Image Information
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Our images are authentic, honest and artistic portrayals to the viewer of
the impact of the scene - natural or manmade - on the photographer.
Filters and color temperature - white balancing are used in the camera and/or film for some images.
No cloning of extraneous objects, no gross distortions of color. Perspectives are those of the lenses.
Only traditional methods of cropping, retouching, contrast, color balancing and the like were used in the image processing.
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Notecards
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May
your winter nights
Be filled with shooting stars
Traveling at speeds of many miles per second, a
meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere. Friction
with the air burns it up, and we see a meteor or
shooting star blazing across the starclouds and
dustclouds of the Milky Way. The resulting hot
gases give off the green and red colors seen in
the streak.
Image captured on Max 800 color negative film
using an SLR with a fast 50mm f/1.4 lens. The
multi-minute length of the exposure allowed light
from bright stars to trail, creating a dazzling
backdrop for the meteor. |
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Season's
Greetings!
Wintry Mountain Sunset
A snowstorm blankets the slopes high in
the Basin and Range country. Clouds remaining from
the weather system reflect the last warm rays of
sunlight above the shadowed and forested valley.
Image captured with a point-and-shoot digital
camera, Ruby Mountains, Nevada. |
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Happy
Holidays!
Chaparral Yucca
The striking radial pattern of the yucca
is reminiscent of the needles of the pine tree.
The two plants are not closely related, but have
adopted the same pattern of narrow leaves to
survive harsh, dry environments.Image captured
with a point-and-shoot digital camera, San Gabriel
Mountains, California. |
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Peace
on Earth
Snow Geese and Gibbous Moon
Snow geese fly to their winter evening roost in
the skies over New Mexico. Part of a huge group of
thousands of birds of numerous species, by my
choice of location and chance
the flock crossed the line of sight to the waxing
gibbous moon, incorporating the orb in their vee
formation for the imagist.Captured with a
digital SLR camera, image-stabilized lens zoomed to 85mm true focal
length. The exposure was f/13 for the depth of
field to get both moon and geese, at a motion-stopping
shutter speed of 1/500 second. |
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Spring
Blossom, Beavertail Cactus
April in Death Valley after a wet winter
means lots of wildflowers in the desert valleys.
An insect takes advantage of the cactus' floral
fecundity.Image captured with a point-and-shoot
digital
camera. Fill flash was used to complement the
plant's solar backlighting. |
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Boundary Peak
Golden Hour
Only a few minutes before sunset on a 12,000-foot
ridge. In the distance Boundary Peak looms on the
border of California and Nevada. The contrasting
colors of blue shadow skylight and warm direct
sunlight dominate the picture.Image captured
with a point-and-shoot digital camera. |
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Desert 5-Spot
Death Valley in the spring holds beauty like this
lovely spherical blossom and its hidden treasures.
A member of the mallow family, Eremalche
rotundifolia is found in arroyos and rocky
soils from the lowest elevations on up to about
3000 feet.Image captured
with a point-and-shoot digital camera. |
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Crepuscular
Rays, Denali
Crepuscular rays are long shadows of mountains or
clouds cast across the sunset line into the
twilight. Denali's towering cloud-catching bulk
creates shadow cones many hundreds of miles long
above the Alaskan landscape. Left to right: Mt.
Foraker, Mt. Hunter and Denali. In the near
distance, the Susitna River gleams. Image taken
with a digital SLR just a few minutes after local
sunset as predicted for a flat horizon at
Talkeetna. The actual sunset occurred earlier
behind Mt. Foraker. Late spring twilight above 60
degrees latitude lasts all night. |
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Denali
When you first see Denali, you might think it's
merely a cloud above mountains in the distance.
It's a forgivable error and then an unforgettable
impression. The mountain stands more than 3 miles
above the surrounding Alaskan interior. From
Talkeetna it looms degrees above the horizon and
far above smaller ridges and ranges around it.
Image taken at 255mm true focal length with a
digital SLR. The angle of the sun, the polarizing
filter and the air's differential extinction and
scattering effects on the foreground, middle
ground and peak (capped with an almost lenticular
cloud) emphasize the massif's identity as "The
Great One." |
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Keyhole Limpet
On the rocky coastlines of the eastern Pacific
this mollusk eats algae on the rocks al fresco.
The fleshy mantle covers most of the one-piece
3-inch shell with the offset eye-like opening used
to pass fresh seawater through the animal. The
markings on the mantle are fingerprint-like and
differ from animal to animal.Image captured
with a point-and-shoot digital camera in a
waterproof case. |
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Moulin, Meade Glacier
They are frozen moving rivers, plastically flowing
and ardently grinding over rock at high altitudes
and cold latitudes around the world. Yet glaciers are
more than ice. Water flows on the tops and indeed
through the ice. Streams from meltwater travel
across the surface until encountering a crevasse,
where they plunge into the depths. The water's
visible stream goes down into the blue,
transitioning to a black hole of indeterminate
depth - a moulin. It's really a conduit that
penetrates the entire mass, emerging at the
bottom. In this way, what happens at the surface
of the glacier can affect the entire glacier. So
global warming can quickly weaken and break up
very thick masses of ice.Image captured with a digital SLR camera.
This moulin is one of many in the Meade Glacier
near Skagway, Alaska. |
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Camellia Blossom
Natural light diffused through trees and shallow
depth of field soften the flower and raindrops.
Image captured with a digital SLR camera. |
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Limber Pine
Cones on Granitic Soil
Pitch-covered limber pine cones almost completely
cover this patch of granite soil in the Sierras
near Cirque Peak.Image captured
with a point-and-shoot digital camera. |
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White Lily
The simplicity and beauty of the white lily draws
the eye and the camera.Image captured with a digital SLR camera. |
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Bighorn Sheep
Petroglyph, Cosos
A relatively deep intaglio into volcanic rock,
this petroglyph of a bighorn sheep is located in
the Coso Mountains of the central California
desert. The grooves are illuminated by cool
airlight, while warm sunlight reflected off the
facing canyon wall fills flatter parts of the
animal figure.Image captured
with a digital SLR camera. |
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Rusted Hawsepipe
Almost fifty years exposure to pounding surf and
tides has completely broken and corroded the wreck
of the Dominator, located on the rocky
coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southern
California. One of the heaviest parts of the hull,
the hawsepipe is covered with many shades and
textures of iron oxides.Image captured
with a point-and-shoot digital camera. |
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