Roy City Christmas Lights

OK, a little bonus today.  I've always thought I should go and shoot the Roy City Christmas lights.  Well with the big snow storm we are having I thought conditions would be perfect.  So I took my rugged camera out in the cold and snow and blowing and took a lot of pictures.  I did a couple of panoramas.  This is the second.  The first is way to big to post.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Temple Square Christmas

It's been to long since I posted.  I have a goal to post at least weekly.  It should be that hard, but it is.  So I thought I would just post another of the shots I took at Temple Square a couple of weeks ago.  Hope you like it.

Temple Square Christmas lights

While shooting the pictures of the family, I also shot the scene with out people.  Here it it in HDR without people.  My wife really like this one.  I guess I do also.  This is a three shot HDR.

Family Christmas Photos

It's been a while since I've had the opportunity to take pictures of people (on purpose).  The specific request was Temple Square pictures with Christmas lights.  Not a real easy thing to do.  Here's one of the four I ended up with.

A New Photomatix

I recently upgraded my HDR software to Photomatix v.4.  Some major enhancements!  Can you tell?  I took these pictures at sunset in downtown Ogden about a year ago and HDRed the top one then in v.3.  The lower one I just HDRed in v.4.  BTW there was no retouching of either photo in Photoshop.  If you've got Photomatix it's worth upgrading (it a free upgrade from v3 to v4).

Winter Tree

The title for this post is kind of dumb, but oh well.  Back when I was in college taking photography classes (1976) we did something called solarization.  This is a photo I used in the assignment, I replicated the process in Photoshop and here are the result.  It was a lot easier to do in Photoshop!  The photo was taken on the mountain above Provo between Christmas and New Years as I was there visiting my grandparents.