This is another one from Fort Myers Beach when I was back in America. The title kinda speaks for itself in this one.
Did a mild HDR edit and called it a day. Spent more time removing dust spots than anything else.
Shot on a Sony A7ii.
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Category: Landscape Photography
Just A Bit Of Sun
I was down near the beach enjoying a beer at my local watering hole and wanted to grab some sunset photos. Sadly, where the bar is located versus where I live I missed the sunset for the most part. Hence the title, just a bit of sun.
This was taken off Jomtien Beach with my Sony RX100iii which I am now just chucking in one of my pockets in a case and carrying around with me. This way I can grab more photos without resorting to a phone.
If you were wondering why there was a lag between shots I have been waiting for my online backup to finish the upload to my backup service. I have a brilliant download speed here in Thailand but my upload lacks. I saw close to finished and didn’t want to dump the 30 or so gigabytes of photos I had until the initial backup finished which took nearly 6 weeks.
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Buddha Mountain
I shot this last year when my Mom was visiting me here in Thailand. There is a real name for the place but the Thai name is brutal so we just call it Buddha Mountain.
I shot this on my Nikon D5500 with my Sigma 17-70 Lens. Honestly, if I want a travel camera and don’t want to hump one of my Sony’s around the D5500 with the 17-50 and the 55-200 is perfect. Lightweight, great battery life, and outstanding image quality.
This is in HDR but I like to think I do it subtle enough not to make it obvious. Dodging and burning as needed.
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Lily Pads And Reflections
This was taken at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve when I went through there. There are a few areas where they have set up viewing platforms so I figured I might as well use them.
I wanted to incorporate the lily pads and get the reflections in the image as well. I luckily took several images because the first image I worked on turned out not to be in focus. Good thing you can just copy settings in Lightroom and be done with it. Once I took it into Photoshop did some dodging and burning to bring out the reflection and add density to the trees.
Figured why not play some more and took it into ColorEfx and added a few more tweaks here and there. Final bit was just cleaning up the dust spots and then sharpening. Professional hint, sharpen then clean else you may get some weird artifacts.
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The Long Walk
This image was taken at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve in Fort Myers Florida. I took this in early January which in Southwest Florida means it’s still stupid hot and there was still leaves on trees.
While I normally like to do a series of images if I am going to get into the editing swing of things I’ll stick to one or two depending on the level of intensity required for me to do it. Not that this took a lot of effort.
This was the first time I used Aurora 2019 which was much improved and the first time I used it on a PC. The new interface and the speed of this laptop versus my old Mac are massive. Going from 16gb of RAM to 64gb makes a huge difference. Plus all my drives are SSD and my external drive is USB-C to it’s much more pleasant to work now.
As always click on the image and it will take you to my Flickr where you can download the full resolution if you like.
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Around The Yard
This set of images is really all about light for the most part. However, they were all shot around my Mom’s house in Fort Myers, Florida. I really never left her front or back yards. Well, one shot was technically on the neighbors but he doesn’t have a fence so it counts! Plus you can see my Mom’s fence so clearly it was around the yard.
These images were shot on 2 cameras. The Sony A7ii using a 16-25mm 4.0 and a Canon 55mm 1.2 that just showed up in the mail while I was in Fort Myers. The other camera a Sony RX100iii. The images were shot over different days.
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Landscapes From The Naples Zoo
While I was at the Naples Zoo I snuck in a few landscape type photos. Well, close enough to landscape to count in my world. I feel more comfortable doing these edits because I have kept my hand in shooting them even if I didn’t publish them.
I have been editing furiously while I am here in Florida. When I get back I will start publishing some of the older stuff I have shot. It will be a mix of stuff from the US and Thailand and Cambodia.
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Watching The Clouds Go By
Shot off my balcony in Thailand.
My Evening View
I traded in my city view for something a bit more upscale in July. I deceided I’d had enough of Pattaya and moved further out and in exchange I got this for an evening view now.
During the day the Gulf of Thailand is visible and I live on the 12th floor of a 15 story building. The only downside was the local pigeon population was using my balcony as a love motel and were fornicating endlessly besides crapping everywhere on my balcony. That has now been resolved.
Last night I setup my A7II on my tripod and fired off this shot.
Enoy.
Sunset Over Manila
I am going to try and start posting again. I am sitting on a ton of backlog of stuff I have shot over the months. Will see how it goes.
I was in the Philippines in June of this year. Not my favorite place to go but was with friends who were over in Asia so I figured I tag along. This is one of the only images I shot because I just didn’t enjoy the Philippines.
This was taken at Ninoy Aquino International Airport while waiting for my flight back to Thailand.
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