Here 's a photo of Mono Lake from the top of Panum Crater, which is an ancient volcano crater on the south side of the lake. The setting sun provided a short but impressive light show.
I am finally getting around to processing some photos I took up in the Eastern Sierra's a couple of weeks ago. This one of course is of Mono Lake. I was hoping for some special light just before the sun came up over the horizon, but unfortunately the cloud cover to the east was too dense and that special lighting wasn't to be. This one was taken about 40 minutes later when the clouds started to breakup. Still a very nice place to be just to enjoy the beauty and solitude that is found in nature. In posts to follow I will be showing some more photos from Mono Lake and its surrounds, as well as, from Bodie ghost town.
Yes, another lighthouse. Although this one doesn't really look like one. This is Pt. Fermin lighthouse located in San Pedro, CA. You can't see the actual light at the top of the tower because of the angle at which the photo was taken. This was taken close to sunset in the Springtime. I will eventually run out of lighthouse pics I'm sure, but since I have so many, I will continue to post some of the better ones. I hope you like them.
I went to a car show that is held every Sunday morning called Coffee & Cars. It's a place where a lot of regular folks can bring their cars and show them off and visit with a bunch of other people that like to do the same thing. It's a great place to make pictures of cars of all vintages and makes. Some are restored to look like the day they came off the assembly line and others are customized to the imagination of its owner. Then there are cars like the one above which has seen better days. I'm sure this car will one day be restored but I kind of liked it in this weathered condition. For this photo I adjusted the contrast using Topaz Adjust to bring out more detail in the old paint and rust.
I went over to Laguna last weekend hoping for a nice cloudy sunset only to find a few scattered clouds in the sky. This made for an OK sunset opportunity, but nothing too exciting. I did set up this shot about a half hour before the sun went down that I liked. Having a prominent foreground subject always seems to make for an interesting photograph. This is an HDR photo using 3 exposures (+2,0, -2). I also used NIK's Color Efex Pro Tonal Contrast filter.
Here's a shot taken at Dana Point Harbor of a line of sailboats. I liked the repetition pattern of the boats themselves but also of the reflections of the boats. This was a single shot processed using Topaz Adjust and a little tweaking in Photoshop.
This is one of the few lighthouses in Southern California and in my opinion one of the most picturesque. This was taken in the late afternoon about 2 hours before sunset and the lighting was still a bit contrasty. To help deal with the contrast, I decided to process this one in NIK's Silver Efex Pro to convert it to b&w. I finished it off with a bit of white vignetting. I like the old fashioned look it gave to this scene. It looks to me like a photo taken back in the 50's.
