An extraordinary set of images, Mark. Dan
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple of these have Photoshop tweaks, but most are straight out of > Lightroom: http://www.robertstech.com/galleries/gfm2011/ > > The first 7 are from my pre-workshop camp out on the back country > trails of Grandfather Mountain. This year I camped at Attic Window > Peak again and got both sunset and sunrise shots. Not only was this a > weekend without rain(!), it was the quietest, least windy night I can > ever recall on the mountain. > > Photos 8 through 10 are from the Saturday morning hike I did with > occasional-PDML-Lurker (and perennial contest prize-winner) John > Weber. We went on the Profile Trail to one of my favorite stream > photography spots (near where Ted Beilby, Matt Maessen and I went last > year) and waded/rock-hopped upstream until we found places with decent > water. > > Photos 11-13 are just random places on the mountain. I think #12 ("Sun > Through Clouds Over the Blue Ridge") is destined to become a large > print... > > 14-18 are from the Sunday morning hike John Weber and I organized. We > got up just after 4:00 AM, drove to a parking area on the Blue Ridge > Parkway and hiked up the Cragway Trail on the back side of Grandfather > Mountain. Sunrise was disappointing by the hike was splendid anyway. > > 19 through 23 are from Tuesday evening's sunset. Official GFM > photographer "Supermodel Helen" and I went in after closing and took > sunset shots from the top of Linville Peak. We saw the most amazing > cloud formations. > > Shot #24, the rhododendrons, was taken on a seldom-visited viewing > area on the tourist side of the mountain. > > Shot #25: There are many streams that run off Grandfather Mountain. > Most, like Green Mountain Creek, have no trail access. I had to > scramble waaaay down a steep, rocky and overgrown embankment from the > Blue Ridge Parkway to get to this little waterfall. I was ostensibly > on a simple scouting mission so didn't have a tripod with me. I > gathered rocks and built a small cairn to support the camera for this > 10-second exposure, triggering the shutter with an infrared remote. > > The last stream photo is from oft-photographed Boone Fork and the > final two plant macros are from a hike I did with the GNSA/Wild South > people just before coming home. > > I'll have some more GFM video to post in a day or two but these stills > will have to do for now. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
