Pictorial (sic) pictures are judged by their artistic quality, and any subject or process is acceptable. Often people will submit the best of their nature, travel, creative pictures as pictorial.
We took the night trip to Alcatraz one Sunday when there was a forecast that implied a decent sunset. I found a place to shoot the sunset behind the Golden Gate Bridge, but I like this angle better.
My favorite shot in Keukenhof Garden near Amsterdam. The light was very dificult that day.
I was working to get interesting reflections of moving water with stationary objects, like Eddie Soloway. This will need work before I would exhibit it.
When I first saw it the light was contrasty, but we went back after lunch and it was much better. Still had to brighten up the arch itself.
This was my only successful shot of aspen. I learned that you don't shoot them in bright sunlight because there is too much contrast. Shot at Big Tesuque near Santa Fe.
While we were shooting the sunset on our first night in Bandon someone said "Look behind you" and this is what I saw. I made five exposures and combined them in the Photomatix HDR program, jazzed it up in Photoshop, and then removed the part of the rock on the far left to make the composition a bit better at the price of some lack of realism. I also made a major crop on the right; the full image can be seen as #2.
This is the same image and treatment as #1, but not cropped. Again I modified the right side to give some color at the border.
I've been trying to shoot this barn near Highway 1 just south of Carmel for several springs, but was never able to get high enough to include the yellow flowers behind it (there is a pretty thin band of them in front of boring weeds.) This time as I drove by I found a spot where I could get a clear view. I don't understand why I couldn't do it before - either some intervening brush has been cleared or I was just stupid before.
Seen in Capitola, on the California coast. I had to straighten the window on the left and do a little cloning to get it to look right.
This is a rather unusual way of storing bikes, and it is an amusing take on a cliche of a bike in a doorway. Chania.
In Burano, by a small garden in one area where the colors aren't as bright as usual. It was facing out of the picture but with the help of Photoshop I persuaded it to turn around.
I was trying to emulate the Greek photographer George Meis, and this was one of the first shots like his that I could find. The first time I scanned it the door on the upper right looked completely black. I then scanned a lighter slide of the scene and, with some work, got the door to show up properly.
An attempt to emulate Meis. It's real except that I really saturated the color of the stairs to make them match the doors.
Seen in Blue Rocks, Nova Scotia. I had to do some work removing wires from the top of the picture
Our instructor in San Miguel de Allende, Arthur Meyerson, said that I should put "counterpoint" in my images. The flowers seemed to be a good way to do it.
The first serious shot with my new digital SLR, a Nikon D70. Shot while sitting next to my friend Rex Morey at Fort Mason, after visiting Photo San Francisco 2004.
There were three hanging there, but I removed an uninteresting one and replaced it after I shot.
Richard Martin made a lot of images of this kind and I'm trying to emulate him. In Burano.
Part of the caboose that is behind the railroad museum in Danville, CA. I shot it with my pocket digital camera while taking a walk.
Another five-exposure image enhanced in Photomatix and Photoshop. The beach that night was covered with photographers enroute to the PSA Conference, so others may have done a better job with this.
Also done with HDR and Photomatix. I used Tone Compression on this one because Details Enhancement produced a lot of noise.
This is a site on the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff Park chosen by our leader, John Cang. It is right on the roadside.
Steve spotted this, I think. There was a Cusinart on the right but he persuaded the owner to move it.
