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I went looking for the sunset tonight, it was beautiful but I had no oomph. Drove to Jamestown, wasn’t up to the crowds and I just couldn’t get enthused with the composition, all those beautiful puffy clouds stayed inland. So I came home and took a drive through Providence, stopped for a few shots of the First Baptist Church steeple against the blue sky and the puffy clouds but it still didn’t do anything for me. So I was working on a few older images and came across the pictures we took on Cadillac Mountain the first night we were up in Bar Harbor. It was a spectacular sunset, the drive up had been rainy all the way until we got to Ellsworth then the sun started peeping through the clouds. The colors were simply amazing and I loved the layers of the mountains in the distance and their blue tones.

Tech stuff:

Canon 50D, Canon 24-105L f/4.0 ISO 400 1/6 sec at f/16 -2/3ev. Processed in CS5 with nik Dfine and Viveza 2 to brighten and increase contrast. Sharpening by Tony Kuyper’s sharpening action.

Taken during the workshop Roamin’ with Roman given by Roman Kurywczak and Denise Ippolito at Nickerson Beach on LI, NY.

"There is no time more precious than the time I spend with you", originally uploaded by ms2thdr (home again, sorting photos).

Taken at Brenton Reef SP in Newport RI after a frantic drive to get there as the sun was setting. Father and daughter were sitting on the bench watching the sun set, I was fortunate that she sat still through the 3 fairly long exposures. HDR processed in photomatix, adjustments made in LR and with Nik Plugins in photoshop. Sharpening done with Tony Kuyper’s action.

The last morning on Kaua’i was frustrating in a way, the flight out to Honolulu then Hilo wasn’t until 2:45 which meant we had time for a nice lesiurely breakfast and lunch but left us with too much time on our hands, yet not enough to go anywhere significant. So we wandered the grounds, Mike going for shots of some of the waterfowl and birds on the property and me looking for some more scenic images of this beautiful spot. I was struck by the shadow of the palm tree in one of the pools but wanted something a little extra. So after fooling about a bit with the Nik plugins I decided on the “glamour glow” effect. I think it’s pretty cool.

For comparison here is the non “glamour glow” image:

Canon 5DMII, Canon 15-35L f/2.8 Polarizing filter. Finished with Nik Plugins in LR2 (after removing a stray swimmer too!)

As we drove down the Chain of Craters road we passed by a lava covered field that was being reclaimed by grasses. This lava flow is about 40 years old and I am not sure if this tree was killed during the flow, but I am guessing it grew since then and reached a size that the sparse minerals in the lava could no longer support. In another 40 years it probably would have survived to be twice the size it was.

We could hear these fish chomping on the coral as we snorkeled. This one was seen at the Captain Cook Monument.

Last morning in Kaua’i taking some pictures around the resort before we headed to the airport for our flights to Hilo