I took at least a dozen shots of this life guard station and none of them looked as good as the sunset felt. So I started throwing sliders around in Aperture (a tool I’m just starting to learn) and made this! It was a blast.

I posted the pictures I took on Christmas eve over on my flickr page. I get grief for taking pictures and never showing them to anyone. Going through this round of pictures reminds me of one of the main reasons: my pictures can suck and they need to be weeded. For example, sadly on this festive occasion, my camera and I had a lot of trouble with auto-focus and depth-of-field. argh!

I’ve been making a more concerted effort to share the photos I take. Check out the iPaulo flickr stream. I especially liked posting the photos from a hike I took this past weekend in topanga canyon (no, we didn’t see this killer whale on that hike!) because I added captions with an iPauloblog-of-old style; those being captions where I try to be humorous without any concern about succeeding.

And, if you want to see cool photos and haven’t seen Chromasia, check it out. He’s on a layering kick right now which is not always pleasing to my eye. If your eye agrees, check out some of the older stuff.

With my work in aperture, it looks like this:
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woot! Until I put them side by side, it actually looked like my work made the image worse. But I think my version is a slight improvement. Righto.

The sky in this picture looks pretty amazing in its full 16-bit RAW color. As a jpeg, I’m less enthused but it’s still ok. Since I’m several days behind schedule on my one a day, I’m posting it.

Is this considered a waterfall? Or merely a water feature? I don’t know, but it’s pretty.