This was the view out my hotel window in downtown Madison! My brother Bruce came down for an evening and we toured the capital building. Discovered that the iPhone 3G has a pretty decent camera!
I drove back to Iowa through southwestern Wisconsin on a grey, rainy day. Fortunately there was already a bit of fall [...]
Made a brief visit to Iowa over the week-end and took some new roadside flower photos, plus a few rural HDR scenes, including the historic Hurstville Lime Kilns near Maquoketa.
Most of these flower photos were taken along a 150 ft stretch of median where I-74 joins I-80 West. The sheer number of blooms was impressive! The mostly purple asters [...]
While in Colorado we had the opportunity to visit Rocky Mountain National Park.
The first day I hiked around the Bear Lake area and took HDR photos of the taller peaks. I was lucky the sky stayed clear until noon (gallery photos 1-15).
On the second day we did a car tour along Trail Ridge Road. There [...]
Orange daisies and large white blooms have just emerged along Waldo Road. The strange white spidery type is from a wetter area.
This go round we have rain lilies, some sort of red legume, and octopods!
I wasn’t quite happy with some of the flower photos in the last batch. I decided to go back to the raw file on this one and try a single exposure HDR. Here is the tone compressed version.
The detail enhancer lives up to its name and brings out more detail in the flowers themselves.
Notice that [...]
After the initial purples and reds, a new crop of yellow “daisies” has erupted. Plus these spiny desert flowers with hundreds of crickets crawling around. Enjoy! RR
Just a backward link to my old gallery of roadside flowers. Future additions will be added to richard.rathe.org instead.
Spring is here and the roadside wildflowers are at their peak! I took these along a 100 foot stretch of Waldo Road. Enjoy!
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