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My friend's dog, taken at the right moment. Taken in my new studio

space, the black background was not yet hung, hence the white

choice... All comments and critiques welcome.

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This was one of my first nights shooting the Milky Way in mid-summer.

Mountains and the night sky are two of my favorite things, and

combining them hardly gets better. The moon rose as I was starting to

shoot, taking away some starlight but lighting the peaks very well.

Taken at 1600 ISO, F4, 30 seconds, 10mm. All comments and critiques

welcome.

Taken on a hike in late July, this was my first thoughtfully composed

milky way photo, as I had mostly done star trails before. I had not

checked the calendar and the moon happened to come out as I was

beginning my photos that night, taking away some starlight but adding

to the photo with the light on the mountains. Overall, I'm very

pleased with this as my first try at the milky way. All comments and

critique welcome. Taken at ISO 1600, 30 seconds, F4, 10mm.

This photo was taken "blind" with a dead rear LCD screen sometime

after midnight 17 miles into the backcountry of the North Cascades on

a moonless night. The orange glow is likely from distant city light,

showing up with the long exposure. Light pollution is visible far away

in many cases. Camera settings were 4000 ISO, F4, 30 seconds at 10mm.

All comments and critiques welcome.

Taken from a saddle near a 6,000'+ peak over 17 miles into the North

Cascades backcountry, near Whatcom Pass, looking north towards Canada

and possibly Chilliwack Lake in the distance. An F4 graduated ND

filter was used for the sky. All comments and critiques welcome.

At the end of a well lit business shoot with a friend of mine, we

decided to play with the lights and change the mood over a series of

shots (we were both just having fun). This is one of the results. All

critiques welcome, as I am only just returning to portraiture.

My personal critique that I forgot to mention, is the white glow created by the flash off the white parts (helmet, fork). My exposure could have been adjusted better to keep the shot darker against the flash.

My friend took me out to his trail, and we did a session of photos.

This was the best of the day. I had one remote flash out of the photo

to the left, downhill looking up, to counter the sun and help with the

light. All critiques welcome!

There isn't much to say about this photo. I was in a good place at the

right time, and out of a few angles that I tried in the short time

that I had before the color was gone, this turned out best. I use

square filters, and stacked a graduated ND2 on top of a grad. ND8 in

order to achieve the best exposure with a combined grad. ND10. Thanks

for looking, and all critiques welcome.

The trees in this former clearcut are growing larger and within a few

years there will no longer be a view. For this reason, my friend

suggested I take his photo with the Canadian peaks in the background.

With only one lens and limited options for a good angle, I took this.

All comments and critiques welcome.

Thanks! I meant to submit for rating, too... doing that now.

This photo of Kinnerly over the head of Kintla Lake in early September

took at least 15 minutes of waiting in order to catch a few precious

moments of uninterrupted sun on the peak without any cloud shadows, as

well as having solid shade on the slope behind the trees, with fully

lit trees. The sky was mostly cloudy with breaks, making the lighting

broken and difficult, with high winds at cloud level making them move

across the sky faster than average. I never made it to the campground

before dark and had to hide my tent off-trail for the night due to the

fact that I had waited patiently to take several other photos, too.

For this photo, it was all worth it. All comments and critiques welcome!

Thanks for the critique. Personally, since I was there and saw the scene in person, I think the colors are almost exactly perfect. It was still early in the sunset (due to the hills), and the colors were not very intense. It was relatively daylight ambient light, too. I agree that with a single shot exposure to be correct the bushes would have to be silhouettes, but that's why I used HDR in order to make the photo match the real life scene as close as possible.

As I was driving back toward park headquarters after an evening shoot

along a creek, I saw the sunset on the lake along with a perfect

roadside pullout. That split second decision to stop lead me to this

scene, which may be the best of the day. The photo is an HDR. All

comments and critiques welcome. View large for best clarity.

Lake McDonald, Glacier National Park, pre-sunset HDR. All comments and

critiques welcome!

Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, taken from the Apgar boat dock

shortly before sunset, HDR. I work on the trail crew for the park, and

this is the first of many shots of the summer, as half of my nights

will be spent in the backcountry. All comments and critiques welcome.

Another sunset from when I was in Richmond a few weeks ago, with the

Skytrain as the subject. The photo is an HDR. All comments and

critiques welcome!

When I find myself in a city rather than the mountains, I focus on the

urban landscape. This is what I found within a block of my hotel when

I had an hour spare before sunset. All comments and critiques welcome.

It's an HDR.

Thanks for the great critique. I have to say that I think the close up out of focus maple is what helps make this a better shot than the others I took without it. Those shots lacked the same feeling it gave... they didn't give the same feeling of being there like this does. I forget what aperture I used on this, too. It was my manual lens. I'm guessing F8 or somewhere in that range.

I wanted to try and capture the feel of the young vine maple forest

that I was hiking through, and I feel like this photo does it best

with several layers of focus. The ferns were the main draw for the

photo. The photo is an HDR. All comments and critiques welcome.

The county parks department recently built a trail to this waterfall a

few miles away from my house, and I finally took a hike in the rain to

see it. The viewpoint from the trail is high up the embankment on the

other side of the stream, on the edge of a rocky outcropping... I

hiked down the steep footpath and crossed the stream for this photo.

The colors on the rock drew my eye, and I'm very happy with how this

shot turned out overall. The photo is HDR. All comments and critiques

welcome!

This was the last shot of the day on a soaking wet 4+ hour ride, and

with all the time spent on the other shots of the day, this one was

taken in a single run before we decided we were getting too wet and

cold as we still had 45+ minutes left to ride down the mountain to get

home. As it happens, this is my favorite shot from the day. With no

other quick options for hiding the flash in the foreground, I decided

to create a more intense silhouette by placing it behind my friend and

shooting at just the right moment as he rode past. All comments and

critiques welcome!

Another shot of Anderson Falls, this time from the bottom. The photo

is an HDR. All comments and critiques welcome!

To add to my collection of Anderson Falls photos, here is the

waterfall itself. This angle shows the large area behind the

waterfall, under the overhanging cliff. Apart from capturing the

falls, the goal of this photo was to capture the feeling of the cliff

wrapping around overhead. All comments and critiques welcome. View

large for best detail.