Indianapolis

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art

Bourbon Street

Night Life - Bourbon Street, French Quarter, New Orleans



Beads - Bourbon Street, French Quarter, New Orleans



Español - Calle de Borbon, French Quarter, New Orleans

Lazy or ???

I don't know what exactly is wrong. Although I have been plenty inspired to take photos, I haven't had much in the way of inspiration when it comes to editing (as in choosing) and finishing (as in photoshop touch-up) any of the photos I've been taking. Not unlike my thousands of slides, which for the most part remain in piles :)

The 1 terrabyte network storage that I have wanted to alleviate my disk space problem is finally in stock. I promptly ordered it. Lack of disk space should not be an excuse when it gets here in a week or so. In the meantime, I'll try to do one photo a day in an effort to work my way through my "slump".

Reflections - Vrelo Bosne, Ilidža

Last One for Tonight

reminder:)
most of these look far better when you click on the photo for the large version....


Chacchoben Mayan Ruins - Outside of Costa Maya, Mexico

More Vacation Photos

Here's a couple of "detail" photos from our two days in New Orleans

Bienville Statue Details - Decatur Street, French Quarter, New Orleans




St Louis Cemetery #1 - New Orleans

Pretty as a Peacock

A photo from our vacation, during which we had a very nice tour of the Cincinnati Zoo. Despite the rain, this handsome fella decided to display all of his finery.

Peacock - Cincinnati Zoo

Skakavac Waterfall

Although I'm behind on my photos, running into serious space problems on my computer, today was just too nice to sit around....I took an afternoon walk up to Skakavac waterfall, at roughly 98 meters, the highest in Bosnia. It was a beautiful walk, a large variety of wildflowers and a neat, misty waterfall at the end. Here are two shots of the mist at the bottom.

Moss and Mist - Skakavac Waterfall, Sarajevo BiH



Add a Boulder or Two

Ippon!

Misha leaves no room for doubt with this throw....I know I owe a lot of judo photos to people....hang in there, I haven't forgotten...but I have no hard drive space :(

Misha Grunberg at USJA Junior Nationals 8 July 2007, Indianapolis Indiana

Back!

Back from vacation which included stops in Maryland (Patuxent Wildlife Refugee), New Orleans (French Quarter and St. Louis Cemeteries), a cruise that included port calls in Costa Maya (Chacchoben Mayan Ruins) and Cozumel, finally a little time in Cincinnati and Indianapolis (USJA Junior National Judo Tournament). Returned with about 800 photos (over 12 Gigs) and very little room left on my hard drive to do editing, Here's a a quick one.

Lily Leaves - Patuxent Wildlife Research Center/Refugee

Vacation

I'm on vacation...maybe you'll get some photos out of it in a few weeks:) I'm also out of space on my hard drives...hopefully I'll deal with that during my hiatus.

SURPRISE!!!!

And surprised she was! as she was coming in the door I think the exact quote was: "The stupid elevator is broken again" ... which about 1/2 the guests had already figured out...the other half made it up before it broke.

Followed by...A Rose by Any Other Name

Must be sweeter than those toes...

Fun with Fungi

Somehow I should be able to come up with a good caption for this photo. It seems Maya has a bit of a foot fetish....I'm open to ideas, so send me a comment :)

Blagaj - Source of the Buna River

With the Dervish House peeking out on the left.

This is another one that I'm not sure where to go with. I took HDR sets in landscape and portrait orientation as well as different framing options. I generally like all of them. This particular iteration is a fairly complicated (for me) combination of two different HDR merge techniques (to keep the water from "blowing out" to pure white while keeping details in the cliffs) combined using an opaque layer mask (first time I've ever done the opacity thing on an entire layer). Topped off with a saturation layer and a curves layer adjustment (to get the colors "right", whatever that means to you:). This is one that definitely looks better viewed large.

Devish House at the Source of the Buna River - Blagaj, Herzegovina

Ćevapi

I saw this sign and framed it with the flowers at the cafe where we stopped for a drink in the new old town section of Mostar. One of many shots I was pleased with yesterday.

Ćevapi

Light at the End of the "Tunel"

Elesa's parents are visiting and we've gone out and about a bit. One stop was the "Tunel" Museum where they got to see the remnants of the tunnel built by the Bosniaks under the UN occupied airport. The tunnel was used to get supplies into the besieged city of Sarajevo (and people out), past the Serbian snipers and the "neutral" UN forces. At the museum you get to watch a video which is pretty much wordless. The pictures and the TV footage of the war say plenty all by themselves.

I've taken lots of photos recently. I photographed the tunnel from a couple different angles and in HDR sets. Not really sure where I want to go with it, do I want to use HDR to emphasize the wood and grain? or go with the dark tunnel accented with highlights from the bare bulb? This particular photo is pretty much straight out of the camera leaning towards the latter.

Tunel Museum - Sarajevo

Theme for the Day - Graffiti

Please click on photo for a bigger and better "experience!"

Two Windows




Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test

Crossroads

An HDR merge from the other day in Veliki Park next door. I don't know if it was the wind or very slight camera movement that sort of gives it a subtle dreamy texture, but I like it. This is just a minute or two in photoshop (after the merging part), someday I'll have to find the time and do it right....I think I've said or thought that before :)

Dog Show

There was a dog show in town, a big one with international competition. Elesa and I got to discussing how all the various extra-curricular things/hobbies people get involved in (usually with their children) have their own culture. It is especially noticeable with those that have competitions and big events. Judo, ice skating, Little League Baseball, dog shows, gymnastics etc. To an outsider, much of the proceedings make no sense, outsiders don't see the differences so "obvious" to those in the know. By the time I got to the show and joined up with Elesa and Shelby, it was to the part where they are judging between bests of breeds to determine the best of the groups and eventually best of show. All the %&(^ had gone home as one lady put it. Since I know nothing about dog shows, instead of photographing the competition parts, I took photos of the dogs "hanging out" and waiting their turn. So I guess this was like trying to take photos of ugly competitors at a beauty pageant...

This is a GOOD Hair Day


A Little Bit of Tongue!


I'm So Pretty


Things are Looking Up!


Best of Show - Shelby and Maya


Maya managed to draw a fair amount of attention even here among the "big dogs". She also certainly accounted for almost all of the cultural diversity among the doggies, singlehandedly representing more bloodlines than the other 100+ dogs combined!

The Power of Peace

This photo borders on illustration. It is a merge of two different HDR interpretations of the same three photographs. I used one interpretation to make the human form of the sculpture "glow". The second interpretation I used for everything else in the frame to even out the tones in the bright sun and add some "richness". I then combined the two images using layer masks in CS2. Last, I did some serious perspective adjustment to straighten it all out. I really should have taken the photos with the 24mm Tilt/Shift lens that I don't have :) And very last, you rarely ever see this sculpture looking anything like this anyway...I felt like I waited forEVER for the pigeons to get off of his head! I've heard, but can't confirm that this is some sort of "peace" sculpture (hence the title).

Sculpture on Liberation Square (Trg Oslobodenja)
Along Ferhadija - Sarajevo



Saborna Crkva, Largest Orthodox Church in Sarajevo in the Background