Yesterday morning, on the way to work, the sky was fantastic, and I got the silly idea of taking a few pictures on the way to work.  Probably has to do with the fact that rain was in the forecast for today.  

My fiance works in northwest Portland, so I was already in the vicinity, so I decided to take some shots of the Fremont from an angle that we don't see every day.

Almost directly under the bridge, or one of the feeder onramps, there is a school.  Don't ask me which one, I didn't even realize it was a school when I took it...

Over where Naito Parkway goes under the bridge, I took this shot.  Here it is again in b&w.  I really like the b&w version.  I thought about editing out the power lines.  But doing it right would take some time.  If I were going to sell the photo, I would definitely take the time...

A few feet to the right, I was directly under the bridge.   Color, b&w.

Enjoy.

Oh, yes, your feedback would be appreciated.  What do you guys think, are any of these sellable?

What a beautiful morning!  This morning, when I got to work, I got to the top of the parking structure and looked out over the edge and saw the Fremont Bridge over in North Portland.  

I also saw some the buildings sticking out of the fog.  But all of the other panaramas I took this morning didn't turn out good enough to post.  Sorry.

I did, however, take a time-lapse of the fog dissipating.  I can't wait to put it together into a movie...

This morning, I made it downtown before the sun came up.  So I went across the bridge and got set up and took some pictures of downtown Portland as the sun was coming up.

This first pan was taken at 7:20am.  You can still see the lights on the Hawthorne bridge.  And the focus was fantastic.  13 shots at ISO100, f/10, 5 second exposures

This second pan was after the sun was more firmly in the sky.  See how the sky has turned?  7:42am.   12 shots at ISO100, f/5, 1/15 second exposures.

After I left there, I went to work.  Looking out the window towards the sunrise, I could see fog nestled in among the trees and hills in the east.  It was stunning.  8:19am.  18 shots at ISO 100, f/22, 1/15 second exposures.

All of the images were stitched together using Autostitch (http://www.autostitch.net/).  After stitching at 100% using linear blending, I loaded them into Photoshop, cropped them to where I wanted them, then applied an Auto Contrast.  Finally, a pass with CSpro (http://www.fredmiranda.com/).

Enjoy.  Or heck, maybe purchase?  :)

This morning, the sun comes and goes, there is fog on the hills, and the view is pretty nice to look at...

Downtown Portland

The series was shot using a Canon 20D with a 35-105 canon lens at maximum zoom, f5.6, 1/15th, no filters.  It was done with 36 shots, each shot approximately has 1/2 overlap with the previous shot.  The stitching was done with Autostitch, using linear blending.

It could probably stand to be cropped a bit.  But this shot is all about seeing EVERYTHING...

Enjoy.

Today, for lunch, I drove over to Pro Photo Supply and bought myself a level to attach to the hotshoe of my Canon 20D.  That way, I could take panoramas and have them turn out pretty level and good.

Afterwards, I went across the river and set up my camera and took some shots to take back and stitch together.

Here's the end result.  I think I need to use Manual exposure next time... :P

By the way, see that tall building on the right?  I work there!

Enjoy!

I went through my photo archive to come up with this set of theme photos.  Next time, I'll try getting new ones...

Celebrate - Before the Rose Parade
Do you see what I see? - Invisible Train (It's there, trust me) - What's up, Doc?
Dummy - Bubble Bath!
Faux - Bowl of 'fruit?'
Half - Horses?  Ponies? - Half in, half out
Intimidating - Skull - Big Fish
Is that LEGAL? -
How old? - Building codes - Magic Mushroom?
Little Things - Tiny Lizard
On the Edge - Looking down at the waves - Canyon Wall
Sticky - Isn't she CUTE?
Sunday - Spiritual Reflections
The End - of a life - day
Too Much - That had to hurt! - Hail!
What the? - Sparkler -  Home made laser light show