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Hiked the Dripping Springs Trail and found it to be gorgeous. Weather was perfect for a hike, in the 50s and sunny with intermittent cloud cover. Great views of orchards and vineyards in the Temecula Valley, Vail Lake and the area leading to San Jacinto Mountains. For detailed trail information check this post : http://tchester.org/sd/trails/ds/ds.html

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Silhouettes Tapestry in Blue and Stone

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:08:05 -0800

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Beautiful Hawk resting

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:55:00 -0800

On a walk in the neighborhood, I saw this hawk on a branch. The sound of the iphone camera made it take flight and a second one hidden by the branches also took flight. They are beautiful to watch.

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A Child Gazes at the Mountains

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:49:46 -0800

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Aeonium Blossom Reaching for the Sky #iphoneography

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:10:00 -0800

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A Seat at the Beach, La Jolla

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:17:05 -0800

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La Jolla Stucco and Evergreens

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:29:20 -0800

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Coastal Contemplation

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:11:06 -0800

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Patience No More

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:32:53 -0800

Please Mom, Let me have the toy!!

Patience be darned ! Let me have it already.

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Flower

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:53:09 -0800

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Red Yellow Blue Green

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:52:38 -0800

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Pointed Tips

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:49:53 -0800

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Blue, Green and White Sphere

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:58:12 -0800

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A Lesson in Processing #iphoneography #DPX #Snapseed #Photogene

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:54:00 -0800

I have been documenting steps in iphoneography processing, so that I can share these as step by step lessons. Here is my first. Processing photos on the iPhone is a joy because it allows the artist to work through several possible ideas very quickly and memorialize them. This is, for me, like making sketches in a sketchbook; I may go through many iterations and publish none, or I may produce a finished piece of work that I can publish. For the ones that are not published, I have learned something in the process I observe and make mental note of how different elements of a composition react to various proceeding techniques. I then look at subjects in the future through that mental lens. While taking photos, I keep in mind the end effects that may result in app processing and frame the compositions accordingly. Here is an example. Those that follow my work know that I work a lot with silhouettes and abstraction, the subject of this lesson. In these two shots below, the shadow silhouettes with sharp edges surrounded by a fairly uniform color background caught my eye. I knew the texture in the concrete would produce some great effects in post processing without getting too busy or overpowering the silhouette design.

I liked tha balance between the positive and negative spaces and envisioned layering the silhouettes on top of each other.

I sought some similarity in posture and composition combined with enough variance to create movement once they were combined in layering Below, I layered the two photos using DPX Free.

That gave me the desired layering but the texture of the background is still hidden and not showing its true potential. I then filtered the photo in Snapseed. This began to bring out the texture of the concrete, including the stones that look like white dots. .

In the final steps, I used Photogene to emphasize light and dark areas, saturate color, and trim the tiny white area from the upper right corner.

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