Glacier National Park

We came across this mother/child (nanny/kid?) on a well used hiking path from Logan Pass to the Hidden Lake Viewpoint.  Because the area is so heavily used by us humans, the wildlife tend to go about their business, ignoring us as long as we stay ten feet away or so. Oddly, this affords a great opportunity to observe wildlife in their natural, daily routines.

I swear the kid is giving her mom a smooch, but was told by someone else its a cleansing behavior?

Butte, Old Town Signs

I love the  painted signs on building walls of Old Town, Butte, Montana.  
I shot these August 13 and 14, 2010, while there for the An Ri Ra Festival  

Paris, Quai St. Michel

May 25, 2010

A near-midnight walk along the Seine It's a pretty simple shot, with minimal doctoring in iPhoto. Its couple clusters and soft light capture a bit of that romance associated with Paris nights. I like the bike, alone. One of the stories in there.

Canon 40D with a fixed 50 mm f/1.4 Canon lens

Monopod

Shutter: 1/15

Aperture: f/1.4

ISO: 320

Luxembourg Gardens

(This is an edit of an earlier post. I decided to use a 2-exposure HDR, rather than the 3-exposure posted earlier. I think it gives richer colors and better focus--without inhibiting the artificiality of the scene)

I have been playing with High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR) to capture the luminescence in both the bright and shadowy part of a scene. Sometimes the results can look "painterly," as some commenters have noted. Sometimes it can look otherworldly--unreal. This picture, the product of two bracketed shots, was taken of a grassy area in front of a sunny area--all in the Luxembourg Gardens. I think I like the way the picnickers seem to have been dropped into a scene they really don't belong in.

Barcelona

What luck to be in Barcelona the evening (May 16, 2010) their soccer team won the league championship. Canon 40D; Shutter: 1/40; Aperture, f/7.1; ISO, 1600.

Magic (La Palma, Canary Islands)

I had maybe three seconds prep time for this picture. Walking up a Sunday street in La Palm, Canary Islands, I saw this lady approach the "magic window." Poorly framed and lighted, it still seems a worthwhile image of belief in more than we see as we hurry along. Canon 40D; shutter speed: 1/80; aperture, f/7.1; ISO, 100.

Sunset, Mid Atlantic

This is an HDR image, taken pretty literally in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, on a cruise ship from San Juan, PR to the Canary Islands. Three separate bracketed shots combined to make the image.