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After spending the night at my parents' place in the mountains of North Carolina, I headed out early to see if I could get some 'dramatic sky' photos. A massive storm system was leaving the area and the winds were blowing the remaining clouds away pretty quickly.

While watching a Nikon DVD about flash photography recently, I learned that even the most advanced camera sensors and films are not nearly as capable of capturing light and contrast as the human eye is, and that's why photographic scenes often require special developing or artificial light sources to help make images appear more realistic. While that makes perfect sense and may even seem obvious to many, I'd never really thought of it that way before. In this photo, I used Lightroom to lighten up the foreground a bit, but the photo shows the scene close to the way it appeared in real life. Some people might consider it "cheating" to alter a photo in post-processing, but I think it's a perfectly acceptable practice. I am confident that even Ansel Adams himself considered his work in the darkroom a critical part of his photographic success.

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Tags:   nikon d90 snow clouds silver lining sunlight fence pasture

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I was going to drive right past this gate, but my wife spotted it as we passed and pointed it out (good eye, honey).

Between a night of snow and a morning of freezing rain, pretty much everything was encapsulated in snow and ice (crunchy on the outside, chewy in the middle?). In fact, I had to step over a fallen line to get to the spot where this photo was taken, and a minivan-sized branch fell to the ground between me and the place I parked about 50 yards away.

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Facing yet another rainy weekend in Atlanta, we headed north to the mountains looking for snow. While we found plenty of it, the higher elevations were covered by a layer of ice from freezing rain.

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Once again, Mother Nature decided to bring us rain all weekend here in Georgia. It's supposed to clear up tomorrow, though. You know, while I'm at work.

In the meantime, there are plenty of opportunities for taking pictures of puddles, rain drops, water droplets, mist, and any number of other wet, gray things.

While photographing this fence and the animals contained beyond, exactly two vehicles passed. Both belonged to the same family of land owners and both stopped to check on me. They were friendly folks and I'm looking forward to going back for more pictures on another day.

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Tags:   nikon d90 pasture cow dew mist rain hair barbed wire fence Georgia GA Bethlehem

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17 0 Jan 23, 2010 Jan 23, 2010

Something a little different from me this time. This photo inspired by one of the same title found on the National Geographic website.

Between the kids wiggling and their eyes being dilated, I didn't get the shot I was initially after. On the bright side, though, I ended up with something new. That's one of the things I like about photography. You never know what interesting things may come up by experimenting.

Oh, by the way, this is the last photo I have of my son as an 8 year old. He's the one on the right. He turned 9 the next day.

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