Glimpses of His Canvas

Test Christmas video embed

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Fog over the James

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What drew me to shooting this was the faint arch bridge in the distance and how shrouded it was in fog.

Foggy morning over the James

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Views from the Nickel Bridge at sunrise

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Sunrise and fog near the James River

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Vintage Monument Avenue

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Maury, pathfinder of the seas (above)

Stonewall Jackson

Vila Real, Portugal

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Church, crescent moon, and sunset at the overlook in Vila Real, Portugal

Spain

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MotaDelMarqués: on our travel across Spain, we found this gem just off the main road!

Segovia aquaducts

A few more from Mumbai

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Local market

Gateway of India

Down town Richmond

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Rio Douro excursion, Portugal

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Plaçio de Mateus, Portugal

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A shot from a vineyard just beyond the palace

Sunset at the overlook in Villa Real, Portugal

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Villa Real, Portugal

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Mota Del Marqués church ruins, Spain

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We came across these old church ruins while driving from Portugal toward Valencia, Spain. We hiked up the steep, rocky path and explored around a bit.

Laugh

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Joshie in common form.

A few from Mumbai

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Fishing Village

Beach beggars

Juhu Beach — "Wisdom"

City excursion

A monkey and his man — Juhu Beach

Portrait of a woman from Himaliah slum

Sunrise over Mumbai

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Taken from a hotel rooftop, a rare glimpses of the morning sun during monsoon season.

Lamp

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The juxtaposition of the sun and the lamp sets up an interesting contrast: one is the lamp of this world, and the other lamp of the that 50 feet of asphalt and grass.
Whatever glory men think they may have, God's glory far outshines it. It's
silly to even compare the two.

Local stuff with vintage styling

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Virginia Beach after dawn

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I just woke up, looked out the hotel window, and the rising sun was disappearing behind gathering storm clouds — not to be seen again for a few days. And yet for a few moments the brightness and strength of the rays glanced off the cold Atlantic, though the sun itself was well hidden in the cloud bank. I thanked God for being able to enjoy the limitless wonders of His creation.

Retro

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Tin-type photo styled

Old church off Rt 360

Spring at Maymont with my MF camera

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Shot these with my medium format (MF) 6x6cm Mamiya C330 TLR. 80mm lens with bellows for macro. Kodak Ektar 100 ISO color neg 120 film.

Self Portrait: Re-styled photo into dagguerotype

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Vintage or kitschy?

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Somewhere over the rainbow…

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Vintage

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When God Hang's an Ornament photobook pages

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When God hangs an ornament

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Awesome crescent moon tonight!

Sawyer's Fence

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A sweet old vine-covered fence I snapped as I was walking in the Fan last month.

Last of the leaves at Maymont

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My favorite tree was nearly bare this weekend, but I explored a bit and found another tree at an angle I had never shot from before — and it had most of its leaves still. What you see here is a multipan/stitch panorama that measures approximately 30x20 inches at full print resolution. The sky and red foliage along with the evergreens makes an impressive color palette I think.

October page Glimpses Calendar

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Glimpses of His Canvas 2011 Calendar ready!

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Amazing root tree at Maymont

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Maymont Falls

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One more from the Japanese Gardens

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Fall colors at Maymont

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One of the prettiest places at Maymont — the Japanese Gardens

Dani and Nani

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My sweet family at local park. Shot with Yashica-D roll film with T-Max100 iso film.

Roslyn tree

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This tree had a lot of character. On one of my prayer-walks through the Roslyn I shot this with my LX3 and did some post-processing in Photoshop.

Sunset Midlothian

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Saw this last night on the way home.

More sunset storm clouds

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Flower & Sunset LX3

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Flower pic with my LX3
I shot this on the "Sunset" program setting on my Panasonic Lumix Lx3. Not bad, eh?

Vacation pics 2010

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Savannah River at sunset

Savannah moss-laden trees

View from our hotel roof overlooking Savannah

Pelican at moment of impact — diving for fish (Los Olas Beach, FL)

Lifeguard stand at Los Olas

Los Olas beach shots

Tulips

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We planted these last year and they actually survived to live again! If you knew are yard, you would know the kind of miracle this is.

Maymont tree blossoms

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One of the prettiest trees in the park I think. This is another mutli-pan — about 8 photos seamlessly stitched together — 4 across on the first row, 4 on the second.
Some might wonder why I do this. That's easy — detail! If I were only posting to web with a small preview like this, a single 10MP image would be more than enough. In fact, it would be overkill. But to create large, poster-sized prints (or coffee-table sized books), landscape photog's go crazy for the most megapixel that we can get. And if you're like me and cannot afford a 60mp Hasselblad, you find workarounds like stitching single photos together into massive composites.

Maymont in Spring

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This is another multi-pan made up of 18 photos stitched into 1.

Maymont Japanese Gardens Pond

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Seamless multi-pan (about 8 photos in two rows) of my favorite area in Maymont.

Nani and Batiam

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Taken by my Yashica 6x6

Portrait of Calixto on my Yashica 6x6

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On the way to Sierra Nevada

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This incredible formation we saw off the roadside on the way up to Sierra Nevada, Granada Spain.

Spain: Salobreña, Nerja, and Gibraltar (UK)

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I just recently (after trying for like 6 months!) completed working on all the photos I took of Spain and Portugal. Here are three. Within a few days I hope to have a 100 page, 13x10 inch hardcover book produced as well, through Apple's wonderful "iPhoto."

I know we're tired of snow, but…

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I couldn't resist posting 2 more pics from my Sunday afternoon outing: Maymont and Byrd Parks.

Frozen Maymont

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Imagine walking across this slightly frozen pond on these stepping stones, with my nice Nikon DSLR…

One more of Maymont's Japanese Garden pond

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Japanese Garden Maymont

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I took this with an old Mamiya Universal Press camera — with a 6x9cm back. This was one of my first tests with it! You can make 40x30 inch prints from the slides it creates.

Grace Street color

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I took a walk today in the Fan and came across this beautiful tree with a pile of color under it!

Cloud drama

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My neighborhood doesn't have the best scenics by any stretch, but sometimes even I get lucky, right outside my front door!

Portrait of a Sirazawa

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PS241

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Psalm 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. (NAS)

Another HDR sunset

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Sunflower Mayont Park

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Deep Run magic

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This photo was taken in the infrared wavelengths with a special IR filter. A little work in Photoshop brings out the "magic."

Beautiful baby

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Beech Mountain sunrise

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Stormy sunset

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I used Photomatix, a great High Dynamic Range (HDR) software, to merge 3 diferent exposures into one. This was the result!

A few new pictures

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Storm clouds rolling in

Rosyln wild flowers

Glorious sun rays

Lighthouse — Gibraltar, UK

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On our whirlwind tour of South Spain, we had the opportunity to visit Gibraltar. This was a nice scene, among many, that I enjoyed taking pictures of.

James river pics

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Our backyard Japanese Maple

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Detail of the leaves in the below shot.

Don't you love Spring? I sure do! Within the last week our little, red Japanese Maple tree blossomed forth with all it's leaves. I took this opportunity to try another panoramic shot. God sure does beautify the earth :)

Nodal Ninja test

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This is one of my first panoramic tests using my new pan head called the "Nodal Ninja."
Place? Maymont, Japanese gardens.

Tulips by our mailbox

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We planted some tulips by our mailbox — and I shot this with that same 35mm F2 lens mentioned earlier.

Spring time at Maymont

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Near the Japanese gardens

Beautiful bokeh

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I got to borrow a Nikon 35mm F2 lens and was thrilled to see that it did some beautiful things with that background blur. We planted these new tulips near our mailbox.

Byrd Park blustery day

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Adkins Farm

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Super depth of field

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Photoshop has a new feature that processes several photos together at the same time to get extended depth of field. The foreground flowers are only about 3cm from my lens, and the house is like 30 feet. I used a macro lens and shot 9 different photos with varying focal points — all combined to make this one image. Not the prettiest image, but the technology behind it is way cool!

Maymont mansion and a blustery day

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Spring tulips

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I want my web-TV

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More Spring pics from Maymont

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Bear den

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Roots

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Maymont — a few new Spring posts

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Foggy day

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I love it when fog rolls in — well, as far as photos go. Landscapes get that kind of dreamy look.

Shadow of me

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Same tree different capture

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Took this one withe the Contax camera.

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Back to film

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My friend Roy loaned me an old Contax film camera, with a 21mm Carl Zeiss lens. I shot 3 rolls of outdated neg film — and really enjoyed the imposed constraints inherent with this kind of camera/film combo. The downside was the $50 price-tag to process, scan and print the film. It was then I fell back in love with my digital camera :)

Snow branch

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Our snowy day

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One of my daughter's favorite books is "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats. We received the book as a baby shower gift a few years ago from my friend Jason and his wife. Well, we had our own "Snowy Day" here in Richmond — as you can see the evidence for yourself from our own back yard.

Reflection of me

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Quiet invitation

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Sunset beautiful

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Geese@Roslyn

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I was on a prayer walk at the Roslyn and came upon a gaggle of geese that frequent the area. The one flaring his wings here is warning the rest that I was getting uncomfortably close for them. A friend once told me, as he watched the geese work the field, that we could learn something of unity from how they stick together.

Hot hot apple!

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I got a little creative with this one, using multiple sets of photo filters. I liked the effect! This is the same mountain apple I pictured a couple of months ago.

Roslyn sunset

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Grandfather Mountain-top view

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Grandfather Mountain NC

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