hum hum...yup i do  :)

a hot time in the old town tonite  :)
coooooooooool !!

i knew there was something odd in Roy  :)
neat

LOL !!!   wow...still water in that old thing  ..  amazing...
super post work  :)

i wish that my digital allowed me to do IR...but the canon G5 specifically filters that light out....have to disable part of it to make it work...ah well....
nice effect...love IR effects

that is VERY cool !!......love that desolation...super work

here are some quotes from a couple of great landscape photographers, Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell (better to listen to them than to listen to me :):

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel Adams

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Ansel Adams

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him.
Ansel Adams

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
Ansel Adams

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
Ansel Adams

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
Ansel Adams

In some photographs the essence of light and space dominate; in others, the substance of rock and wood, and the luminous insistence of growing things. It is my intention to present-through the medium of photography-intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to spectators.
Ansel Adams

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?"
Ansel Adams

Some photographers take reality...and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Ansel Adams

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel Adams

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
Ansel Adams

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
Ansel Adams

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Ansel Adams

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
Ansel Adams

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
Ansel Adams

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
Galen Rowell

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
Galen Rowell

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
Galen Rowell

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
Galen Rowell

I do accept responsibility for attracting people to specific wildernesses, but I don't think that there is any clear and simple way of looking at it and saying that a person is wrong because they have written or photographed an area and therefore caused greater impact.
Galen Rowell

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
Galen Rowell

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
Galen Rowel

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
Galen Rowell

Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
Galen Rowell

My first thought is always of light.
Galen Rowell

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
Galen Rowell

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
Galen Rowell

When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell

there are tons of landscape photography tutorials on the web....they all say pretty much the same thing......rule of thirds....be there early and late in the day......light is everything......and take your camera with you everywhere you go  :)

one thing i've done to get a more realistic shadow is do a regular drop shadow (after i've selected the item i want shadowed of course) and then make the drop shadow effect its own layer and then mess with distort and skew edits.......usually works out ok (i forgot the shadow in my diti attempt  :)  old age ya know? :)

super....thanks  :)

thanks......great info and a great looking ring....
i've been thinking about getting into rings as kind of a hobby...any suggestions on the best way to learn?

noise is a problem with Canon and long exposures....the longer the exposure the worse, generally, the noise is....i try to avoid a large sections of flat ,no detail, sections, i.e. a flat blue sky....
try limiting your long exposures to less than a couple of seconds (which is usually plenty long enough to get the milky look)..
i've got a canon G5 and i do get noise but can usually clean it up with filters etc.