Photo of the day (1.28.10)

Today’s Photo of the Day is from one of my favorite contributors, fdean55. One of my retirement dreams is to really explore the Monument Valley area in Utah down low, instead of 35,000 feet. In fact, that could have been me going by with the thin contrail behind the rock. The view from that altitude just doesn’t compare to what fdean55 captured.

UPDATE: fdean55 pointed out in the comments that it was actually Courthouse Towers, Arches National Park, Utah. Thanks

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Photo of the day (12.03.09)

I’ve mentioned the wonderful effects achievable with HDR software before. HDR, or High Dynamic Range photos are usually a combination of 3 to 5 differently exposed photographs that are merged together to create a very detailed and perfectly lit picture.

This shot, called Brandywine River, by Floyd Dean was created by creating an infrared look with an HDR picture. Most of Floyd’s pictures aren’t manipulated to this extreme, but the results in this shot make me want to look over some of my HDR pictures to see how they’d look with some different effects applied.

Yet another nice job, Floyd!

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