What an amazing place and thanks goodness for digital photography we can bring out the otherwise subtle colors and male the scene amazing.
This looks like an amazing contest. The photography on there is stunning. What is different is that the 5 top winning images are marketed to 1000 art buyers and some winning images have been seen and published.
I am pleased to say I have judged it three times. The price is right as well: $25 for 5 image entries.
Enter here: Chasing The Light
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I took an afternoon hike in the middle of the day, mostly for exercise since I was on the computer all day. I saw this cracked mud and had to shoot it.
I processed it in Photoshop and added contrast and a slight brown tone to exaggerate the colors.
It is said by many, and hard to argue, that we live in a surveillance state and world these days. Everywhere you go physically and virtually, you are being watched.
Well you can imagine my surprise when I discovered while photographing in the Colorado Rockies, that I was….YES….being watched.
I couldn’t believe it! In the middle of the forest all alone, and these eyes staring me down.
Roatan Honduras: So by mid-week we were slowing down due primarily to an abundance of Caribbean Rum and the weather was turning rather stormy. It didn’t matter because when it rains or pours and it is 82 degrees, well so what?
We fell for Cindy and her small curbside cafe and that great ‘Caribe’ accent she had; “Ya Know Mon?”
Day 4 and 5 were wonderful as well chilled a little and hung closer to home. We mixed through West End Village and met many wonderful people, locals and from abroad.
This is a great place where you fit right in with most everybody speaking English. They are happy you are here and frequent their business while others will give a tour around neighborhoods without expecting anything in return.
The highlight of the day was clearly these laughing birds. Not sure if they are parrots or a different tropical bird, but this was fun in Roatan Honduras
Today we went to West Bay and we got there by water taxi. A much faster route then the road and more adventurous as well.
The ride took maybe 10 minutes and you get to see some really nice homes along the way.
As we settled in to figuring out this beautiful island we immediately met many people from the US and England and Canada. The woman yesterday was from Chicago and has been here 33 years. The young couple in Sundowners (the most famous bar in the Caribbean we heard) were from Washington State. It goes on and on.
We were thrilled to visit Eldens Mercado for groceries and find everything we are used to in Safeway at home. See more pictures…
We arrived in Roatan about 36 hours ago and jumped right into checking out the scenery, food, a few bars, and meeting other ex-pats. So far it has all been wonderful and we haven’t seen anything yet.
The people or ‘islanders’ are very friendly and the non-islanders as well. I find this interesting as an American, when you walk down the sidewalk, few people greet you. Neither do I. Everybody’s on a mission. Here everybody greets you for the most part.
While there are some who push their wares on you, it is nowhere near as bad as Cancun and other places. I understand how they need to make a living and I would be happy to oblige if I need something.
I recently photographed my friend Kim and her husband and kids in the studio. This is the first image I processed of Kim herself.
This is what could be called a white on white which is a subject that is very light in tone on a white background. This would be her blonde hair and white blouse on a white background. Here’s the lighting diagram: