Category: North Carolina

Monday Morning Movie

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Last night I was working on another short movie, hoping to expand Monday Morning Movie lineup with another choice, but didn’t have time to finish it, maybe I’ll finish it for next Monday. Something to look forward for me and for you guys as well, well, I do hope you look forward to my Monday Morning Movies and Friday Mystery photos. Its been here for the last six plus months, every week.

Anyhow, some of you already have seen this one, I shot it back early this summer in the Appalachian mountains, about 45 minutes north from Asheville, right off the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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Small Creek

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Updates on My Apps

If you are using Windows 8 OS then please check out my apps. “Travel Photography” app now will show the exact location of the photo in each post (except on Friday for that Friday photo) and it has gallery of my favorite photos. I use “Map My Photo Pro” app to assign precise location to each photo before I publish it on the blog. If you like to remember where you took your photos and show them on the map, then this app is the perfect tool to do that.

Boone Fork Trail

While there are some yellow leaves floating in the water, it was taken in the middle of the summer, way before everything around there turned into yellow and red. This photo was taken on the same day as I took this photo, posted back in July. I like how HDR makes flowing water look so silky smooth, just like with long exposures or some filters.

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Monday Morning Movie

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Quick post today. Time to show another photo from the Biltmore Estate early summer visit. Right now it looks very different, not much green, but it should be decorated for Christmas and probably all pretty inside. Not sure if they do any decorations outside. I’d like to make a quick visit there before Christmas and see it all decorated. I’d be really happy if it actually snowed to take some photos with some white powder on the ground and naked trees, but so far there is little chance of that. Temperatures are staying in mid fifties, and it is in mid December.

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Wife Modeling

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I have a few more Fall photos in my archive that I want to post, and admit it, here on the East Coast US we are still in pretty much middle of the Fall. Even though all leaves are gone, trees are naked, but it is about 70F today in Northern Virginia, today is December 4th, mind you.

One day after work back in late October we went for a short walk at Reynolda Gardens, this is the only tree that was in some orange heat at that time. My wife was modeling for me, resting on the bench, good job!

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Windows 8 Apps

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Geo Tagging App

I just got two more apps into the Windows 8 App Store. They could be of interest to you guys as well. Majority of the DSLRs are not capable to tag photos with geo coordinates so you have to do it afterwards by some type of application. I put together a simple to use app that will let you choose your JPEG photos and assign them with GPS coordinates simply by dragging a pin on the map. I started tagging all of my photos with this app as of two days ago. The first app is free, but it has ads bar in the window, the second is not free (cost less than a cup of coffee, most everyone can afford it), but without any annoying ads and with the same functionality as the first one. So try the free one and if you find it useful, get the ads free one. See my Apps page for all of my Windows 8 apps that you can use!

Crabtree Falls

A few weeks ago we did a short hike to the Crabtree Falls. It was fairly busy there and I had to wait for the right opportunity to take a few photos without anyone in the frame. I did not do any type of ghost removal in this photo. As you might know, right now I’m shooting with D800 camera with its whooping 36 Mpx censor. When I zoom into this photo (at the native high resolution file) and with just water falls in the frame, the quality of it is pretty darn good. I’ll probably post this photo sometime again, but cropped to the waterfall only.

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