Favorite Photo
12-23-2010, 07:13 AM
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I take lot's of pics when outand about (too many if you ask the fam) and there are countless favorites. But this one is of my older daughter (left), a friend, and my Hook-em during a school field trip at a local rock quarry. It is actually my current wallpaper at work.
I achieved exactly what I wanted on this picture. The girls in sharp focus and Hook-em out of focus. The objective was to make the girls pop in the picture.
I achieved exactly what I wanted on this picture. The girls in sharp focus and Hook-em out of focus. The objective was to make the girls pop in the picture.
12-23-2010, 07:50 AM
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I have a couple of favorites at the moment; here's the first one:
Taken in Silverton, CO earlier this July during our vacation there. The train ride we took from Durango - Silverton. While the original color photo was good, I think the Sepia look gives it a more rustic feel, as does the subject:
Also, from the same trip, parked in front of the Traveler's Lodge/Mill on Picayne Gulch. This photo was originally taken with the cell phone and had to be enhanced substantially to get the colors to pop. Just makes the JK look at home!
Taken in Silverton, CO earlier this July during our vacation there. The train ride we took from Durango - Silverton. While the original color photo was good, I think the Sepia look gives it a more rustic feel, as does the subject:
Also, from the same trip, parked in front of the Traveler's Lodge/Mill on Picayne Gulch. This photo was originally taken with the cell phone and had to be enhanced substantially to get the colors to pop. Just makes the JK look at home!
12-23-2010, 08:59 AM
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One of my favorites ...
Curtis and I had climbed to Glacier Point from Yosemite Valley below. Sure, you can just take the 30-40 minute drive up the 3300 foot ascent, but there's something about "earning" it by hiking it that gives it much more meaning. I have lots of pictures of various ascents we've made, but this is my favorite. That's a little surprising to me, because this was one of our least favorite national parks to visit (of the 42 we've been to). You can read more about that here: http://www.summitpost.org/if-disney-made-a-national-park/335510
12-23-2010, 11:43 AM
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Great pic Mark. Hey, I've been meaning to ask you.....I see you wear the long hair and you kinda look a little like you might, but do you you have a little injun in ya...as in Native American..???
12-28-2010, 01:22 AM
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You'd probably be surprised how often I get asked that. I don't think so. However, a relative of mine, Pierre Dorion (yes, spelled that way) joined the Lewis & Clark expedition. He had been living with the Sioux Indians for about twenty years when the expedition arrived, had a Sioux wife (Holy Rainbow), and they needed someone to assist them while they wintered over in the Dakotas. Some of his children would return back east, as would he when asked by the expedition to escort some Indian chiefs back to meet President Jefferson (which means he missed the truly adventurous part of the trip further west). So, I don't know if some of his lineage is in my own--genealogy has never been my thing.
Drove by the Tetons once, but was never as close as you were here.
