Zion National Park in southern Utah is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. The scenery is magnificent, no doubt enhanced by the autumn colours that we were able to experience for a second time this fall. I have so many photos, I’m not sure how to best share them in this…
Northern Arizona
This week we took a driving trip, leaving Scottsdale and heading north to visit some great picture sites in Arizona and Utah. We did a 900 mile circuit through Arizona, Utah and Nevada before arriving back in Scottsdale today, Friday. Following is a Google map, showing the route we followed. Sorry about the image quality,…
Salt River Canyon
This is a picture taken about a year ago. I’ve been going through my archives looking for pictures that might have been overlooked earlier when I made choices to process them for posting or printing. I have processed this one before, using a high dynamic range approach. I felt I could improve on that one,…
Tempe Town Lake
Tempe Town Lake is a reservoir that occupies a portion of the riverbed of the Salt River as it passes through the city of Tempe, Arizona just south of Scottsdale. On July 20, 2010, a portion of the west side of the dam that contained the water in the lake collapsed sending a flood of water into…
Saturation and Luminosity Masks
A little bit about Photoshop technique today, a new trick I’ve applied recently. For those who aren’t mildly interested, I’ll leave the technique description to the end. What I show first are two versions of the same photo, one with very little post processing and the second which I’ve treated using saturation and luminosity masks….