Yesterday Roxanne and I started out shooting birds in the local landfill. I know what you’re thinking… But the place is full of birds, including eagles. Unfortunately, I don’t have a long enough lens to get a good shot. Then we went to the Venice Train Station to shoot some HDR images. Armed with our tripods and camera set to bracket each shot by 2 EV, we started shooting the train station. As the sun sank lower, we decided to go for the real grunge and ended up in a nearby industrial park. There’s something about junkyards and decrepit buildings that really comes alive when you run the images through Photomatix.

Cheers,
Doug

Venice Train Station

Industrial Grunge

Everything But The Junkyard Dog

On Sunday, Roxanne and I piled our equipment into the bird blind, and headed for a MeetUp photo shoot at a cattle ranch in Myakka City. Got to watch your step in cow country. At any rate, there was all sorts of awesome things to photograph: old barns, decrepit farm machinery, gnarly trees; and yes, even cows. The shoot was well organized. We had a great time. after the shoot, we meandered to Marina Jacks to photograph the marina as the sun set. Here’s one shot from the ranch, and one from the marina after a trip through Photomatix. Enjoy.

Dead Tree Trunks & Red Barn

Sarasota at Sunset