Taken only a few minutes after Reflections of Sunset today’s image has a completely different mood and feel to it. The brilliant orange glow of sunset had completely faded away and darkness was quickly overtaking the remaining daylight. Maintenance crews have been busy over the last few months reworking the path leading to the intake tower. What is left of a fallen tree trunk acts as a border to the freshly rocked walkway. A little extra...

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I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last several weeks simply taking in what other photographers are doing in the niche of photo-abstract/manipulations. I have found that the possibilities for these images really are limitless. I recently came across a technique for creating an image with a heavily blurred background while keeping one or more elements stationary and thought I would try my hand at it. The concept is very simple and...

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This is one of the takeaway images from a trail walk I took a few weekends ago. Spending a few minutes exploring off the main trail along the river banks I found several tree stumps that had obviously been decaying for quite some time and had began to take on some interesting characteristics. The recent rainfall not only made the mosses a vibrant green but saturated the porous and decaying wood turning it very dark. I wanted to shoot from a low...

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There’s really nothing special about today’s image, it’s just a decaying tree stump covered in moss. What caught my attention was how vibrant the mosses were against the dull color of the forest floor. Gear: Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm Processing: Adobe Lightroom 3, Adobe Photoshop...

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Don’t you just love it when you literally stumble onto a great composition! Well that’s what happen with this image. I had just finished shooting what would become River Crossing and was making my way further down the trail when I came across this scene. The tree had fallen right through the middle of the only laurel bush in sight. It kind of reminded me of a scene from any number of bad movies where the speeding car always hits the...

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