Peeking through the woods

Walking alone on a blurry pathway, through the woods, just pleasant temperature, freshness in the air, can hear the birds chirping, with some water splashing ... and at times the woods open up ...

Winding Road

The long journey, wading though ups and downs, mountains, passes, beautiful and not so beautiful experiences ...

River Trail

We had planned to go to Mt. Baker and had started early. En route, the main Hwy was blocked due to a cycling event. We had to park our vehicle and had to wait for about 1.5hrs. Fortunately this was close to the North Fork of Nooksack river and just ideal for a river trail to a horse-shoe bend. This picture is taken along the river trail.

Pillars of the Past

Golconda Fort: Though the place was crowded on a weekend, I managed to get this secluded shot of one of the stone passages in the vast fort. The stone walls have a way of telling their own story. The light and sound show in the evening is definitely recommended for anyone visiting the fort.

Adding the color version:

Abstract

Some abstract for desktop ;-) This is hot spring water flowing down. The green color is I guess due to moss/fungus and the orange is due to sulphur presence. This was taken in at Mammoth Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park.

The Wave

The Wave - thatz what it is called. This amazing formation is in the Vermillion Cliff Wilderness. Nature has patiently carved this out on rock with help of wind and moisture over thousands of year and is so fragile that access to this wonder is rightfully controlled.
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Growing in the Sky

Bright clear day, cloud streaks gracing the sky, perfect still lake, pleasant temperature and no winds - what more can you ask for! It was getting late to reach home and had earlier decided to skip this Picture Lake point (on way to Mt. Baker). But last minute thought I should stop by and it was worth. After taking some shots of Mt. Shuksan I noticed the lake was reflecting other things - big and small.

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Lucky Horses

Meadows on way to east entrance of Glacier national park: It was a very cloudy day, poor light, drizzling and no tripod! What can you get? This image is HDR processed of a very bare image that I managed on that day. It was only after processing this, I noticed the horses on the meadows and with majestic glacier mountains behind. I don't even remember what I did ... I am not still familiar what all parameters to tweak to get a predictable HDR!

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Zoom Burst

Zoom burst: I had read about this effect, but never thought of trying it out. This weekend as I was hiking in the Quinault rain forest, I was trying a very close-up of a tree bark - handheld. Due to low light the shutter speed was low and my swaying ofcourse got the image blury - but it appeared to have a zoom burst effect. This prompted me to try out the above on a co-photographer and I liked it. One other thing is I like the game it plays as you scroll up/down the image :-). This is totally unprocessed image, straight out of camera. Maybe I should try this often!