Cars, Machines, Art and Abstracts

This is looking down on a 1957 Chevrolet tail light. The colors were provided by the clear blue sky, a pink brick building behind the car, the car's rich red paint, light tan/grey pavement, and yellow stripes on the parking lot. No touch ups were done.

A street lamp in Rothenburg, a medieval city still surrounded completely by the stone wall that protected it in the 14th century.

Houston Skyline

Lower Antelope Canyon, outside Page, Arizona. The blue sky, red rocks and yellow sun provide all the primary colors to make a rainbow of reflections inside Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon.

These interesting shapes formed in a flat sided iceberg we passed in Tracy Arm, Alaska that stood maybe 12 to 15 feet out of the water.

Five different effects were used in Adobe PhotoDeluxe to turn a near black and white night shot of Troy Merchant's smoke photo into this graphic. Except for the border and starburst, the main colors were derived by shifting tint, darkening, and adding much contrast and saturation, then doing that over and over until colors began to morph and exaggerate. I never used the color change or "add color" controls.

This is a photo of the drivers of Union Pacific locomotive #3985, a huge articulated steam engine with 12 driving wheels that weighs over 1 million pounds. Photo was taken when it was at rest in front of Kyle Field in College Station for Geo. Bush's (41) 80th birthday celebration.

A staircase in the hotel where we stayed in Florence Italy.

Stairwell inside Highland Lighthouse, in North Truro, Mass, on lower Cape Cod. Outside at the moment was a tropical storm, remnants of a hurricane Earl , with horizontal rain and umbrella-ripping winds. Photography of the lighthouse from the outside was not practical while we were there.

Orange Beach, Alabama, July 9, 2011

Another version of the Princess Cruise ship's water reflections. White "spider webs" at top left are Deck 7 guardrails.

The water between the long floating dock and the permanent bulkhead had fast moving ripple action that made nice reflections of our cruise ship.

A tall orange and blue smokestack with a red logo on it produced this reflection. Ketchikan.

A reflection of a different ship which I did not photograph.

The Window at Big Bend National Park, Texas , May 25, 2005.

Straight up into the Eiffel Tower. Large catch nets used for the Tower restoration put a damper on many of my planned shots, including this one.

Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas, May 27, 2012

Columbus, Texas. Tiffany glass in Courthouse ceiling.

Vatican ceiling

Double exposure of Yosemite mountains and Merced River, Feb 2010. This was a mistake in HDR processing, but it was colorful and kinda fun, so I kept it. HDR programs process with very high saturation which is normally the first correction I make, but I just left it that way in this case.

St. Eustache Cathedral ceiling, Paris. Now THAT is Gothic.

Unique windows on a Rothenburg, Germany roof.

Praha Church Ceiling, 10MM wide angle time exposure. Texas.

A colorized treatment of Troy Merchant's smoke photo