Last Light
I’m going to wrap up Mazatlan photos with this image of the sunset from the top of the Posada Freeman Express in old-town Mazatlan. The Freeman is a great place to grab some food or a drink and catch the sunset from the roof-top. I’d like to say that I thought about this and planned it, ensuring the couple was …
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Leftovers
I wanted to get this shot because of the way the light was falling on the door, but mostly because of the take-out box on the steps. At first glance I almost passed this opportunity over because of the ‘trash’ on the steps and I thought it would ruin the picture. After looking at it for a minute I decided …
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Empty Veranda
One of the very few times I found this area empty. It usually has plenty of people sitting at the tables, drinking and playing games. I just got up early enough to get this shot while everyone else was still asleep. I’ve been testing out different HDR software and processes this with Unified Color’s HDR Express and used OnOne’s …
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Be Mine
I was on a business trip last week and didn’t have anything prepared to post while I was gone. It was the first sunny weekend in, forever maybe and I worked outside instead of shooting or processing photos. Hopefully I’ll get back on track again. I wanted to post this today because it’s the 14th – wow, it’s been 2 …
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I Think I See Spuds Now
A simple picture for today: neither HDR nor infrared. This is for all my friends and co-workers in Idaho :) However, I suspect these didn’t come from Idaho – they were poised and “ready for their closeup” in the Mercado. While I was doing just a touch of post processing work on this, my daughter came in the office and …
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Masked Walls
While exploring old-town Mazatlan one afternoon, we came upon a ‘little’ shop entrance along one side of the street we were on. I say ‘little’ because it looked very small from the outside and I thought there was no way to spend more then 90 seconds in there. We went in and the shop keep going and going around corners …
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Silent Stairs
We were walking around old town near the Mercado with some friends one afternoon when we came across some old and crumbling buildings. We all stopped and explored the area as much as we could for a few minutes. There was no one around at all and the street we were on was empty. Peering through the windows was fun, …
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Extreme Pools
This was taken within a few minutes of the photo in the last post from a little further back from the pool to include the chairs and more of the environment. Other than the additional environment in this picture, the obvious difference is the processing. While I occasionally like extreme processing with HDR photos I generally try to stay away …
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Still Waters
During the day these pools are packed with people and it’s pretty crowded. I went out late one evening to photograph the pools while most people were gone. Once again I had no tripod with me, so I made do with some of those yellow “Wet Floor” cones that I found around the pool. I had to really bump the …
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I’ve Seen Onions From Both Sides Now
And…… here’s the other side of the onions. I did spend some time dodging and burning this photo and selectively adding contrast and vibrance. The depth-of-field on this photo is so narrow I didn’t need to do much focus processing on it at all. Because of the angle and shooting at f2.8 there is barely anything in focus at all. …
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