It was Saturday morning and I was awake around 5:00AM; I hate to sleep late and waste the day. Anyway, I knew the sun would rise at about 6:30AM and it was a little cloudy so I grabbed my backpack and a mug of coffee and headed for the wildlife refuge to see if I… Read More Sunrise Over a Creek and Wildflowers
A couple of weeks ago I spent an afternoon hiking around Colorado Bend State Park and am just getting to my photos. It had been raining quite a bit and I was hoping that Gorman Falls would really be flowing. So, my first hike was down to the falls. The hike from the parking area… Read More Afternoon at Colorado Bend State Park
My last stop in Patagonia was Punta Arenas in Chile. After a quick flight across the strait the afternoon before, we checked in to a nice old hotel and I woke up to a beautiful sunrise over the Strait of Magellan. At breakfast I could see the sky developing and went to the balcony on… Read More Punta Arenas
There is a king penguin colony on Tierra del Fuego and I got to visit it when I was there. Apparently, king penguins showed up on this shoreline a little over tens years ago and began returning to nest. Initially, when people came to see the penguins they got too close to them and scared… Read More Penguins on a Useless Bay
If you are just seeing this post, this is the continuation of my bloggings about a trip to Patagonia. You can read about Torres del Paine National Park in Chile at the following links: After several days in Torres del Paine, we made our way to the town of Porvenir on Tierra del Fuego. Porvenir… Read More Stromatolites of Tierra del Fuego
After a glorious sunrise, we traveled about the park seeing a few more overlooks and looking for more wildlife. I wasn’t happy with my photos from the first overlook and didn’t post any here. At another stop we made looking for wildlife, I became more interested in the way the road looked going off into… Read More Some Autumn Color in April
The third and final sunrise of my stay at Torres del Paine was the best of them all. It was another cold and windy morning again, but I didn’t mind that a bit once we got to the site. Our sunrise site for this morning was a rocky overlook across Lago Pehoe from the mountains.… Read More The Third Sunrise
I started this day with a very cold and windy wait for sunrise at a waterfall on the Rio Paine with the mountains in the background. I had set up my tripod and then sort of just hopped around trying to be warm. At this roadside overlook, there is a gorgeous (and loud) waterfall with… Read More Waterfalls and Hiking, Torres del Paine Day 2
A new feature showed up in an update for Adobe Lightroom and I am kind of excited about it so I am writing about it. The feature is called Denoise, with a description that says “Reduce noise with AI.”. You have the option to go back to the manual noise reduction controls if you like.… Read More Lightroom’s New AI Denoise
After a cold and windy sunrise at Torres del Paine, we went looking for pumas. Pumas were once a bit rare in this area after being hunted rather ruthlessly by ranchers. But as the park was formed and tourism dollars were discovered, people began being a lot more accommodating of the pumas. With their only… Read More The Towers of the Blue Mountains
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