Yay, Friday is here, weekend is near. Olympics are almost over, that is a bit sad. It was entertaining.
I was looking around on my hard drive, trying to find something for this Friday and decided to go with this one. So fellow travelers, or photography detectives, where is this place?
Virginia Creeper trail use to be a railway, now converted in to the bike and easy hiking/jogging path. I think it is totally runs for about thirty miles, but the most popular segment is between White Mountain and Damascus, about seventeen or so miles. It constantly cress cross a small mountain river and there are many bridges, more than thirty of them. Each one is numbered.
This dog was hanging out at this bridge, waiting for his owner or maybe he is local and just likes to see people going each way. He moved around quite a bit so we had to hang there for a few minutes before I took this one.
This is another cool aircraft (P-40E Warhawk) displayed at the Air and Space Museum near the Dulles Airport in Virginia. You can read more about the history of these single-engine, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground attack aircrafts here on Wikipedia.
I took this photo back in Summer of 2010, not even sure if these signs are still there. I haven’t been back to Roanoke in the last 18 months. I hope its doing well and continue development of its downtown, as it was pretty lively back then. Anyone driving south HW581 through Roanoke downtown will see these signs, obviously they are much cooler after dark. You can’t see on the photo, but the coffee pot is animated, with coffee pouring into the cap.
btw, to get fine details of the neon signs I used Photomatix selective deghosting for different parts of this photo.
I decided to document my HDR processing workflow and share it with everyone else. You can find the first installment by following this link HDR 101 or by click on the HDR 101 link on the right side of the window.
In this tutorial I discuss how I take my photos and what type of post processing I do on most of my photos.
It is so easy, anyone can do it!
Let me know if you have any questions. I hope folks will find it useful in their photographic adventures.
I took this photo without tripod by placing camera on the rail and pointing it blind in the right direction. I’ was happy with result and didn’t have to take another shot.
