KAUAI MOUNTAIN VALLEY

This mountain valley and stream from shot from our helicopter tour of Kauai in June.

"ASCENSION"

This composite recently was awarded "Gold" and high for the night on Bay Area Photo Clubs Honors Night last month and a third place ribbon at the Baytown Photo Clubs recent show.  It's a nine shot composite with the background being a six shot HDR of an alley on Texas Avenue in Baytown.

OSPREY AND MONUMENT

Osprey photographed this weekend at the Baytown Nature Center with the San Jacinto Monument in the background.

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.

TARO FIELDS OF THE HANALEI VALLEY

This is an eight shot stitched pano of the taro fields in the Hanalei Valley on the island of Kauai.

KAUAI MOUNTAINS

This is a shot of some of the mountains we flew over on our Jack Harter helicopter tour of Kauai.  It would be hard to imagine how green these mountains are without seeing them.  I suppose that's one of the outcomes in an area with 468" of average rainfall per year!