May 5th Super Moon from a ridge in Briones Regional Park off of Old Briones Road Trail. Spectacular night made more exciting by the coyotes howling and the many owls huntin aggressively as soon as the sun went down. What a terrific park and wild space. A great first visit.
The Organ in Arches National Park, at dawn. Processed in SmugMug’s Camera Awesome app.
The Golden Gate Bridge reflected in the slack tide of San Francisco Bay, seen from Southwest Airlines flight 1208 from Oakland to Orange County. April 6, 2012. ¹??? sec at f/5.6 with a Panasonic DMC-GX1 on April 6, 2012
By Stephen Lefkovits on February 11, 2012 at 5:17:58 PM using a Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
¹????? sec at f/10 at 400 mm. All rights reserved. © Stephen Lefkovits 2012.
In ten days pearl oysters have grown from Marcus’s Back to the Roots mushroom in a box kit and we’re eating them tonight for dinner. Love this kit and had fun with the macro photography. The mushrooms are gorgeous and I wanted to make a few portraits before we enjoyed them. For those with school-aged kids, Back to the Roots is very involved with teaching kids sustainable agriculture and helping with fundraising for schools. And if you post of photo of your own kit on Facebook, they’ll donate a kit to your classroom. March 2012.
On our February 2012 trip to Kauai, a high-pressure front gave us a clear night and a chance to see the dark skies of the Pacific over Kauai. The Hanalei Pier is an interesting landmark that provides some scale and definition to the shoreline and seemed ideal for “bridging” the transition from water to sky.
50 seconds at ISO 6400, with noise subtracted in Photoshop using a master black from made from 16 black frames averaged in Nebulosity astronomical image processing program.
This years’s herring spawn in San Francisco Bay set records for the numbers of herring coming in to drop their roe. For the past week, pelicans, cormorants, ducks, gulls, and other shorebirds have enjoyed a feeding frenzy of epic proportions. The herring have moved offshore, but their eggs are washing ashore providing a rich protein feed for birds that feed in the surf. These gulls were flocking at the beach in the village of San Quentin, in front of the prison.
Saturday morning January 14, 2012. Handheld with a Canon 5D Mkii with a 400 f/5.6 lens. 1/1250 of a second at f/7.1.
Shaman in the Moonlight – Photography stopped being a solitary act for me the first time Ann joined me on a photo adventure and she shared the first of many, many good ideas. When Marcus was born, I found new joys in expressing the musical notes he wove into our fabric. When we’re all together and sharing a good vibe, the photographic output is always richer for their input – intended or circumstantial.On a trip to Mt. Diablo Marcus got a sudden yen for rock climbing which took us to Rock City. As he ran from one formation to another, he led us under an oak tree that framed the rising moon through a twisting core. Maybe it’s because I just started reading Carlos Casteneda that I got distracted by a shape that reminded me of cliff carvings of a dancing shaman – with the moon over his right shoulder.
Mt. Diablo State Park, Danville, California January 7, 2012.
Exposure was 1/400th at f/5.6 at ISO 400 with a Canon 400mm f/5.6 lens. Processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Joshua Tree National Park features a small but accessible natural arch along an easy trail at the White Tank Campground. Not featured on the standard park map, this gem is a quarter mile walk from the drive-in campground, and is a fun family hike that provides bouldering and exploring opportunities for the whole family. Five year-old Marcus is seen here in between the rocks of the arch on Christmas Eve morning, 2011.
Via Flickr:
Part of a collection of images from a 20-hour visit to Joshua Tree National Park. December 24, 2011.
Intrigued by Microsoft’s Photosynth, but turned off to realize it requires viewers to have Silverlight installed, I looked around for another highly-rated iPhone app for panoramas and found Dermandar. Dermandar seamlessly overlaps vertical images from an iPhone into a partial or 360 degree panorama. The resulting images can be viewed online, via email or embedded as an HTML5 video in your free account at Dermandar. It renders output in HTML5 or Flash and is a breeze to use. Image quality is excellent, and it’s easy to share to a free Dermandar account for further online distribution. Worth the $1.99 for the app right from the first use.
Dermandar is easy to embed in Wordpress using the Dermandar plugin. It took me just two minutes to install and activate the plugin and half a minute more to find the video ID to post into the proper tags to embed in this site.
Update: I’ve added a second panorama to this post from Disneyland as well. Note the cool double-image of Marcus on the left-hand side from his movement into the second frame.
