On Aviation and Photography:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” - - Ansel Adams
UPDATED: September 19, 2010
Hi, My name is Bill and I am updating my homepage to reflect a wonderful event in my life...marriage, September 18, 2010, to my best friend Tara...known to many of you as auntietk here on Renderosity.
We "met" shortly after I joined Renderosity in August 2008. We share a love for photography and indeed all types of art.
We live north of Seattle and enjoy getting to share photographic excursions and information with other Renderositians ( is "Renderositians" even a word? ). LOL
As for me, it seems like I've been taking pictures all my life but I didn't get serious enough to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera until May 2008. In May 2009 I upgraded from an Olympus E-510 to an Olympus E-30 with a wide variety of lenses.
My subject areas of interest include absolutely everything but with a frequent return to airplanes, cars, tanks, etc., ...or as Tara says, machines that make lots of noise;-)
If you are curious, I am pictured above in a Grumman Corsair on a taxiway of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I used to fly and train others to fly airplanes. That will explain my frequent forays into the world of aviation. Last but by no means least, thanks to Pannyhb for introducing me to Renderosity. The moment I saw it I was hooked.
Fine print: Yes, the photo above is a photo manipulation:-)
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Comments (27)
giulband
it is really a great shot!!
FredNunes
Well done Bill. Very nice. :-)
photosynthesis
An outstanding landscape - you manged to get both ends of the lake into your panorama in a very appealing composition...
Adobe_One_Kenobi
This has a very painterly feel to it bud.
Faemike55
outstanding panorama of the lovely feature of nature
goodoleboy
Wonderful ambience in this capture, Bill.
SunriseGirl
ditto the other comments..thanks for sharing :)
jocko500
this is very lovely to look at
RodS
An amazing shot, Bill, despite the less than ideal weather! This place is definitely on my bucket list - someday...
auntietk
Oh man, I'm freezing cold just looking at this picture! The wind wasn't blowing very hard, but man, it was brutal! A great shot, and it's really nice to look at it from the comfort of my chair rather than out on that rail. Yikes!
beachzz
This is one of the most incredible places. I've never been there, but it's on my bucket llist!!
kgb224
Sorry to hear of the cold weather Bill. Superb capture. God bless.
durleybeachbum
Breathtaking in the true sense of the word when you were there, I expect!
jayfar
Very zoom worthy Bill and a super shot.
blinkings
Stunning mate, stunning.
whaleman
A nice view and a great panorama but it surely does look cold up there!
CarolusB
very nice indeed
Rob2753
It was certainly worth the effort Bill a fantastic shot !
MrsRatbag
It does look incredibly cold and miserable, but oh how beautiful it is! Wonderful shot!
Sea_Dog
Superb view. I can appreciate the weather you were experiencing - I was in Portland that day and it was cold, windy and pouring rain.
helanker
And yet it is a wonderful landscape. :)
flavia49
marvellous shot
prutzworks
great shot
jendellas
A beautiful capture, great in zoom!! x
debbielove
What a view! Outstanding shot Bill, perfectly taken and shown.. Rob
danapommet
A super pano Bill and I read someplace that it is the second deepest lake in the word. The deepest is in Russia and it was formed in the same way!
anahata.c
ok I'm doing ANOTHER pano. Stop the presses...This one is definitely FILLED with details. And it's beautiful. I don't know how you keep your perspective when shooting for a pano---I mean, keeping the overall view in mind, while taking the individual shots. This has an overall view. We really do feel the span of the water's boundaries. And the punctuation of the island on the left side and the jutting land in the right foreground gives real "beats" to the shot, big dramatic visual beats. They're wonderful. The water is captured with formations that look like the kinds of lines one would see from an aerial shot. And the trees, with their vertical "interruptions," do real justice to the horizontal sweep. And the bad weather only makes this moodier. A fine concoction, and a beautiful scene, and more seamless "joining" from you...