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Taken in Barcelona, Spain. This is a marvelous piece of graffiti I saw in the distant city while wandering around Park Güell. I have no idea who did it, but whoever it was did a fantastic job. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 85mm ISO: 200 Shutter speed: 1/320s
This was taken many years ago during a trip to Paris. I’ve always loved this shot, it just says “Paris” to me, almost as much as a photo of the Eiffel Tower does. Aperture: ƒ/5.6 Camera: Canon EOS 20D Focal length: 35mm ISO: 200 Shutter speed: 5s
While wandering around the High Line Park on the west side of Manhattan, I spotted this building. Something about the fire escape caught my eye, reminding me of my youth running up and down narrow alleys and climbing fire escapes for fun, and I snapped this shot. I wanted to evoke feelings of urban nostalgia,…
Obviously, this is the 14th Street/Union Square subway station in NYC. As I was taking this shot the guy in the center happened to turn around and catch me. Immediately after I snapped the shutter, he took a single step backwards and disappeared behind the support column. Aperture: ƒ/8 Camera: Canon EOS 20D Focal length:…
One World Trade Center as seen from the Jersey side. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 65mm ISO: 100 Shutter speed: 13s
These guys were working on a building a couple of blocks up Broadway from the Flatiron building in NYC. They were really tossing those I-beams around like they were toys, with lots of needling and insults to keep the game going. As I took the photo, the guy in the middle noticed me and pointed…
A giant banyan tree found along the Pipiwai Trail on Maui, Hawaii. Although I shot this photo with the intention of leaving it in color, during my processing I just wasn’t getting the look and feeling I wanted until I converted to black and white. Aperture: ƒ/5 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 15mm ISO:…
My second attempt at HDR photography. This particular image is a combination of four exposures, (shadows, midtones dark, midtones light and highlights). This particular grove can be found at around mile marker 7 on the Road to Hana and is truly beautiful in early morning light. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 55mm…
My girls, enjoying the sunset as we prepared to sit down at our first family Luau. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 15mm ISO: 800 Shutter speed: 1/50s
This is my very first attempt at an HDR image. I don’t usually like HDR, but while I was in Hawaii I took a few photos with the specific intention of trying my hand at HDR processing. This particular image is an HDR combination of three exposures (highlights, midtones and shadows) that I then processed…
This is a closeup (not macro, of course) of some of the bamboo on the Pipiwai Trail on Maui, Hawaii. The entire forest was beautiful, with hundreds of photo opportunities to be found every few feet. I could have stayed lost on the trail for hours, maybe even days, just taking photographs of everything. Aperture:…
This is the first bridge leading to the bamboo forest along the Pipiwai trail in Maui, Hawaii. The forest is huge and full of magic and beauty, but also pretty dark and foreboding. The sound of the bamboo swaying in the wind is soothing and mysterious, it almost feels as if the trees are talking…
This is one of the many wind-blown trees on the backside of the Road to Hana. The wind was amazingly strong as I took this photo, there’s really nothing to shelter you from the constant winds in this area, but it was a stunning view from the top of the hill. Aperture: ƒ/22 Camera: Canon EOS…
This is an old pier on Maui that just begged me to take its photo. Aperture: ƒ/11 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 40mm ISO: 100 Shutter speed: 1/160s
Another photo of the Bamboo forest found around mile marker 7 on the Road to Hana in Hawaii. Aperture: ƒ/9 Camera: Canon EOS 7D Focal length: 10mm ISO: 1600 Shutter speed: 1/15s
This is a shot I took while wandering within a bamboo “forest” on the island of Maui, Hawaii. This isn’t the place most people think of when they talk about the bamboo forest on Maui. That forest is found on the Pipiwai trail on the backside of the Road to Hana. This particular bamboo forest is…