My Glenview Photography Exhibit

Took this from a bus that had just stopped in traffic in downtown Washington, DC.  It was juried into an exhibit by a curator from the National Portrait Gallery.  Don't get shots like this very often.

Taken at JFK Airport.  I waited two hours for someone wearing a hat to pass this advertisement on the wall.  This person stopped and took out his cellphone which was a close match to the technology in the wall ad.

Taken at a craft show in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  Business was slow.

At the pyramids at Giza, outside of Cairo.  4500+ year-old pyramids, 3500 year-old mode of transport, and a cell phone. 

Ocean City Beach and Shoreline

Photo taken last year at Ocean City, Maryland.  On the left is the result after I tonemapped the original with Photomatix and then did a little additional

processing with Photoshop CS3.  The picture on the right is the shot I started with.  The 'true' scene is somewhere between the two.  Obviously I was not using a polarizer or ND filter.

Before I worked on this photo I asked myself if I would paint this scene if I were still working in oil or acrylic, and how would I want it to look.

HDR

Been spending some effort creating HDR images.  Here I used Photomatix's tonemapping feature since I only had a single image of the Boyd's Maryland, general store that I took in December 2009.  It was dusk and I wanted to capture the bare light bulb and its reflection onto and in front of the porch, the onset of darkness, and the colors generated by the setting sun.
I try not to get too surreal with HDR. Just get the details in the shadows and highlights, like the human eye would capture.