Amazing Colors

Traditionally at this time of year we have our annual fireworks competition which draws enormous crowds out to English Bay and the Kitsilano area to watch. On the evening of July 25th however clouds started to roll in and what was supposed to be a nice sunny evening soon turned into showers. This of course drove a lot of the usual crowds away. But as the night went on it was soon to become one of the most impressive lightning storms I think this city has ever seen. If you ask me I think Mother Nature's light show is way better than any fireworks display. Also just as the sun was setting there was this amazingly vibrant color to the sky that I've never seen before so I rushed out and amidst the downpour I took a few quick pictures and composed this panorama of the view from Kitsilano looking towards English Bay and downtown Vancouver. No color correction or any Photoshop was used to post process any of these pictures. It really was that beautiful that night. Vancouver has not had a night like we had last night for a long time. Here are some more.

Panoramas - Oregon Dunes and Coast

Here are a few panoramas that were stitched together from about five to seven shots each. The ones that I shot in portrait style and then stitched actually turned out looking more like single wide angle shots but without the distance distortion of a typical wide angle lens. The first few are of the Oregon Coast Dunes and the last one is from one of the many lookout stops along the 101 Highway.

Panorama and HDR

I was playing around and took a few shots from the Stanley Park Seawall looking back across to downtown Vancouver. I took about six shots and combined them into a panorama and then also took some shots and combined them to form a HDR image. I usually don't like to do too much post processing if any at all but these are fun things to try out once in awhile.

Here is the panorama. You can click the picture for the full size photo.

Here is the HDR shot followed by a few of the seven shots that I used to combine together for the final output. You can click the first photo for the full HDR photo.