Stopped by the Cheltenham Badlands on the way home from work again, I very much enjoy visiting this place. The old side trail is closed due to erosion, but you can still get a downhill view by following the road downhill. My D800 hasn’t arrived yet, so here we have another 9 exposure HDR image proving that my 7 year old DSLR can still kick out a great image.

While geocaching on Belle Isle, Michigan, I spotted these Daffodils growing around the lagoon feature of the park.

A swan nests beside the lagoon on Belle Isle Island. Being an urban park, the swan has incorporated the park’s litter into it’s nesting materials.

These Japanese Cherry trees are a gift from Toyota, Japan to the Motor City. They’re located on Belle Isle, Michigan (Detroit). Since the weather was *really* calm, I was able to try out an HDR process on these trees.

91/365 : Belle View.

This is a view looking from the tip of Belle Isle, toward Windsor and Detroit’s downtown business districts. The Ambassador Bridge can be seen in the distance connecting them both.
Image is an HDR combined from 9 different photos taken on my D200 with a sturdy tripod.

The Barber Mill Dynamo on the Credit River near Georgetown was reputedly the first examples of hydro-electric power production in Canada for industrial use. The mill itself is three kilometers upstream. Photo is HDR/tonemapped from 9 exposures and converted to black and white with a simulated red filter in Aperture.

88/365 : Beaver Meadow on the Credit River.

The theme for this week’s “Digital Photography School” challenge is “Black and White Landscape”. So, for my photo of the day, I decided to target just that. Here’s an HDR image from my D200 taken using a sturdy tripod and 9 photos. I was tempted to shoot in black and white directly in camera but I didn’t have a red filter handy so opted instead to do that in software. This scene is right off the Caledon Trailway, and a favourite location of mine due to how lazily this fork of the Credit flows past this spot. It’s always a peaceful place.

A small series of waterfall drops downstream from Eugenia Falls. It’s not always the big cascade that catches the eye.

Another photo from yesterday’s walk along the Hamilton Beach Trail. This is an image of a snow fence that’s erected at the beach access. I downloaded the trial Capture NX and used it to process this image just for fun.

This was a photo I took for the 31st day of my 365 day photo project.

To get this effect I have two flashes pointed at the little mouse. The SB-600 is off to the left a couple feet away with a grid on it, and it’s set to 1/64 power to illuminate the mouse.

The menacing cat is provided by placing a cat sculpture three feet back and the SB-800 with a red gel is behind it pointed at the mouse, with the cat sculpture in between. The exposure is set so the ambient light is eliminated and just the shadows that I want are here.