Our next stop in our trip around South America was through the Panama Canal. One of the Locks is Gatun Locks built in 1915.
Frigate birds- Did you know they can stay aloft for more than a week?
Many Buzzards flew around the Locks, mostly black headed.
There is an article reviewing the Top HDR Software in the April issue of Outdoor Photographer.
But the latest HDR news!
HDR is the latest craze in Photography and now it will even be on the ipad!
The newest how-to app for the iPad is now available: Rick Sammon’s HDR Portfolio (soon to be renamed – Rick Sammpn’s iHDR). This app is packed with HDR photos (his latest), info and movies. A great way to learn and experience HDR. Same great content, but when the new version is release, it will feature a Favorites section, which is very cool.
When one takes photos to be used for HDR a tripod in a necessary item. What about a tripod on a moving ship? That is how I took this picture, on a sail-away from the Island of Moorea on a cruise in the South Pacific, but I thought it turned out to be an interesting picture! What do you think?
Click on the picture to enlarge.
Two videos using Animoto software
I am playing with production of video and still shows using Animoto, http://animoto.com/
“Award-winning Animoto Pro lets you instantly combine your photos and video clips into sharp, sexy, HD videos.
At the heart of Animoto is our patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images, video clips and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills and techniques that are used in television & film. No two videos are ever the same.”
Can’t decide if I like the software or not.
The Rose video was made using all still photos taken after a rain storm in Tucson–Except for the last photo, which was from a Tournament of Roses Parade.
What do you think?
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
Rotterdam ship bell–Each HAL ship seems to have a bell, some times it is just hard to find it!
One doesn’t see phone booths very often anymore,
These caught my attention in Hilo,
and they are also “prettier” than most!
On a recent Cruise on Holland America Line we traveled from San Diego to Hilo Hawaii– our first siting of land! The trip map is featured on the first picture in the gallery
The Wailuku River rushes through old lava rocks and lava tubes creating a “boiling” effect. The Kaumana Caves are reached by climbing down an almost vertical staircase. These caves were formed by the 1881 eruption of Mauna Loa.
A trek through white sand lagoons filled with a mixture of salt water and artesian well water from below the surface and surrounded by unique lava formations, leads one to a beautiful sheltered lagoon in which to swim.
