This triptyhc was my entry in last Tuesday night’s Bay Area Photo Club Honor’s Night program under the assignment of “TEXTURE”.  This is the abandoned Charles Boldt Paper Mill in New Iberia, La and you can see a YouTube video about it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv898Gvp6LY.  The judges liked it enough to score it as a Gold Award. 

WINDSWEPT MEMORIES

This was my second shot at Tuesday nights photo club meeting. I entered it in the Open division under the title "Windswept Memories" and I received a Silver award on it. It was taken close to the coast in Rockport, Tx this weekend. I took the shot in full morning light, about 9:30 AM, and then used a series of filters in post to create the ambiguous lighting.

I took this shot of a little antique store called "Cherokee Rose Trading Post" outside of Rosharon, TX last Sunday.  It's a handheld 5 shot HDR composite that was post processed in Photoshop and enhanced with Topaz plug-ins.  I shot it with my Olympus E-1 and Pro Series 12-40 f2.8 wide angle lens.

Paddling Lake Martin

I took this shot back in September while visiting Lake Martin, just outside of Lafayette, back in September.  I entered in last night's Bay Area Photo Club Honor's Night program and the judges gave it a Gold award.  We were on a swamp tour on the lake when our guide pointed the spot out and said it was one of the most photographed sunset locations in the country.  My main thought when I see this shot is that we saw gators in this lake that were bigger than either "boat"!

CREEK AT ROARING FORK

This is a three shot HDR of a creek located off the Roaring Fork Motor Trail in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park near the Gatlinburg entrance to the park.  We were there during the last week in October and caught the fall colors at close to their peak.

ADVANCING TREES

I took this shot of the Roaring Fork Nature Motor Trail in Tennessee the last week in October. I used a slow shutter speed with a mid-range zoom handheld for the effect.

METHODIST CHURCH AT CADES COVE

I think this Methodist Church is probably one of the most photographed churches around. I did a GOOGLE IMAGES search on it though and I didn't see any shots I liked as much as mine. [Of course I could be a little biased!] It's taken from the Rich Mountain Road which is a 12 mile unpaved mountain side ride that runs one way from Cades Cove to Townsend, TN.

This shot was hand held with my Olympus O-MD EM1 and a 40-150 F2.8 telephoto all the way out.  Settings were F4.5 # 1/800 and ISO 1250 on auto.

PACIFIC COAST HIWAY DIPTYCH

Here's a couple of shots I took while walking down the Pacific Coast Highway in Huntinton Beach, CA.

VELVET CROWN

I photographed this deer off Cade's Cove Loop Road in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in early June of this year.  I entered it in the Bay Area Photo Club of Clear Lake's Honor's Night program under the September topic of "Wildlife" and was awarded a bronze award.

DEEP CREEK BRIDGE

This shot was taken along the trail at Deep Creek in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park just outside of Bryson City, NC.  I shot the low POV off hand at 1/30th of a second at f11 with a 22mm focal length [44mm equivalent] and ISO200.

JAKE'S CREEK NEAR ELKMONT

This shot of Jake's Creek was taken from a wooden bridge that crosses it near the Elkmont campground in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park.  I set up my tripod here hoping to capture some shots of the annual firefly show but it turned out to be better bug viewing down the trail.

CADES COVE FORREST #2

Here's another shot of the green forest as seen from Cades Cove Loop Road in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

DOWN THE ROAD

This shot is from a low POV looking down the road at one of the iconic Pike Place Market signs in Seattle.

LONE PHOTOGRAPHER

This was a shot of fellow photographer on our National Geographic workshop recently in Seattle, WA.

PIKE PLACE MARKET ENTRANCE

Here's a three shot HDR composite shot of the entrance to the Pike Place Market in Seattle.

WAIMEA VALLEY KAUAI

Here's a 10-shot stitched panoramic taken from the Waimea Valley lookout platform on Kauai.

SHOE ANGELS

The "Shoe Angels" repair shop in Seattle was around the corner from the restaurant our Nat Geo group ate at for the wrap up dinner of our work shop.  It had a fascinating collection of items inside and would have been a great place to photograph during working hours had there been time.

BENCH AT MADISON FALLS

While we were on a brief visit to Madison Falls, trying to outrun a storm, we stopped to photograph this bench at the foot of the trail in Olympic National Park in Washington.

SEATTLE WATERFRONT

Here's a shot of the Seattle waterfront taken from a restaurant pier near the hotel where we were staying.

HORSES IN A MOUNTAIN VALLEY

We drove by this scene on the way to photograph a sunset at Kee Beach in Kauai and stopped to take a few shots.  It would have made a great evening location to stake out and spend an hour or two shooting but we had a plan to shoot the beach sunset and we were determined to stick to it!  This was my favorite of the few shots I had time to take.  Although I liked the composition I thought the lighting was a little flat and I used a technique Tony Sweet calls a "digital sandwich" to amp it up.