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Any of you reading this who live in Washington State
owe it to yourselves to get up to Paradise at Mt.
Rainier and see this year's flower display. It was at its
peak last week and I imagine it will still be pretty good
for the next week or so.
I just finished up a workshop at Rainier and I think we
all got some great images. Tipsoo Lake was beautiful
and the flowers there plentiful. The flowers at
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There are still a couple of openings in the
Photographers Alliance workshop David Middleton
and I are leading on the Oregon Coast, based out of
Newport, OR. This is one of our favorite locations. If
you like lighthouses, harbors, beaches, nets and
other fishing gear, you'll love Newport. We'll also visit
the fantastic Oregon Coast Aquarium. Here you can
photograph puffins and oystercatchers up close in an
open aviary. And if you're a fan of tide pool
photography, you'll find one of the best, most natural
and easy to photograph tide pool displays you'll ever
see.
We'll spend mid-days in the classroom critiquing images, demonstrating image processing techniques and answering your digital image editing questions. The workshop is September 9-13. You can get all the information here. |
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Photographers Alliance Workshops is offering several
workshops to great locations through the end of the
year. Don Mammoser and I still have room in our Zion National Park workshop at
the end of October.
Interested in Glacier National Park? The fall is a great time to visit Glacier (less crowded, no bugs, fall color). Moe Witschard is leading a trip for PAW Sept 30-October 4. Click here for more details. How about Death Valley? Death Valley is one of my favorite photo destinations. It's a fantastic place for dramatic and graphic landscapes. Moe is also leading a workshop to Death Valley this November. Check it out here.
Other workshops this fall include the White Mountains
of New Hampshire, Coastal Maine, Bosque del
Apache, and more. Visit the PAW
site for the full listing. |
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At a recent workshop one of the participants showed
us some of her images that she enhanced using a
pretty cool filter. Fractalius is a Photoshop plug-in filter
that creates effects that are "based on extraction of so-
called hidden fractal texture of an image."
This is a fun filter to play with. You can really create some very original, very appealing works of art with this $40 filter. Using filters like this isn't something I do often but it certainly is fun to see what you can do. And if you're the type who enjoys exploring what you can do with your images, this filter should be right up your alley. You can download the demo version for free here. |
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So it's been awhile since I "finished" the bathroom
remodeling project. I say "finished" because I never for
one minute believe I'm actually finished. Anyway, with
August here and a few weeks between workshops, I'll
have some time to get going on some yard projects.
I've already put in a short walkway under one of gates
leading to the backyard. That was during our recent
100 degree weather heat wave a couple of weeks
ago. I know, real smart of me. But it was a good start
and we've got more walkway and other landscaping
ideas percolating. I've also got a few other things on
my list like moving underground sprinklers, and
capping off the fence I built last year. (Ok, I had help
with the fence. Ok, so I was the one helping the guy
we hired to build the fence. At least give me some
credit, I did manage to injure my knee during the
project.)
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For those of you relatively new to the newsletter, you
can always check out past missives by visiting my
website and clicking on Newsletter Archives. Relive
the days of the great bathroom remodeling, see some
pictures of my grandson, or check out how Bailey the
labradoodle has grown. Oh, and there might be a few
posting actually related to photography.
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Last I heard, Don Mammoser and I still have plenty of
space available for out Colorado Fall Color
workshop.
Hillsides of aspens, brilliant blue skies, Colorado at its finest. We've also reduced the price so this is a great chance to photograph the Colorado mountains in all their fall color glory. |
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