Here are a few images taken at Sand Beach on Mt Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Maine USA.
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I was driving along Chamber Lake in Hibernia Park yesterday, and I had to stop for the view of the drawdown with snow.
This is a small (3635×1000) panoramic view, of 9 images ‘stitched’ together, looking toward the dam.
I was standing knee-deep in snow, and for the locals, there is a good 5-8 feet of water missing because of the drawdown.
You can also see maintenance trucks working on the dam itself.
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Some images taken during a late Fall walk in the Natural Lands Trust’s Peacedale Preserve in Chester County, PA.
There was a weather front moving through while I was there, which allowed for some very interesting cloud and lighting conditions, and several times, I was able to see some Crepuscular rays.
Weather Clouds hdr 01 – Peacedale Preserve
Weather Clouds 169 – Peacedale Preserve
Weather Clouds 024 – Peacedale Preserve
At one point during my walk, I encountered a real old-timer.
In the middle of the Preserve, there is a huge beech tree, at is 3-4 feet in diameter, and easily several hundreds of years old!
I don’t think I have ever seen a monster like this!
I was also extremely surprised with all the wooly bear caterpillar that I encountered. (Predicting Winter Weather: Woolly Bear Caterpillars)
During my walk, I had to avoid walking on over a dozen of these critters!
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I am still ‘new’ to the digital art/painting capabilities of Adobe Photoshop CS6, but it has been a lot of fun playing!
Earlier in the week, while out on a GPS drive, I captured the base image while shooting out the car window, and published it ‘as is’ so to speak.
A couple of days later, playing with a new processing technique, I came up with this!
I’m still fine tuning which images this technique works best, so come back again to see more images!
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Folks that live in Chester County, or anywhere hay is harvested, have seen bale after bale just lying in fields.
So on this rainy day, I decided to take a second look at some of my images in my collection…
Hay Bales & Grasshopper
Side View
Between the rows
Long Sides
I am going to have to keep this technique in mind for future use!
If you are interested in how I processed these images, please let me know!
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