If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my FREE HDR Newsletter now with iPhone photo tips. . I also give away discounts for print purchases and other fun surprises. Thanks for visiting & I hope you enjoy the pretty pictures! ~Captain Photo Tweet This is just one of the cool places we’ve visited on our road trip the past several...
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Tweet Castles in Canada? Scotland is on my bucket list. I want to see castles. Germany will also do. Turns out that there’s one that’s very cool up in Victoria, British Columbia. This photo is Craigdarroch Castle and was the home of Robert Dunsmuir, although he never got to live there. By reading the literature about this must-see Canadian Castle I...
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Tweet Easy Perspective Correction for those Crooked Lines It happens to us all the time. Our photos have distortion and converging lines. Sometimes the cause is wide angle lens distortion and other times it’s convergence from the focal plane of our camera not being parallel to the lines in our scene. The most common example...
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Tweet The reason I even started looking for new themes for my photo blog websites is because I noticed that 50% or more of my readers are accessing my websites on mobile browsers. It’s 2013 and the time is here to build your online assets to be equally responsive to all browsers on all devices and give all users a great experience. FYI, Google is now...
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Tweet Not as many flavors as Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, but in my count there are 14 incarnations of Lord Vishnu depicted in the icon at the center of the Vishnu Shanti Ashram meditation hall. In today’s photo you can see 8 1/2 of them. Everything about this Ashram is done on a large scale. The magnificent chariot entrance, the black...
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Tweet Comet Chasing My son called. He wanted to go photograph the comet Pan Starrs with me. Not ever shooting astronomy thingies I didn’t know what to expect and I knew it would be an adventure. We used the iPhone app TPE that I talked about last week on my blog post about shooting the full moon to find a cool place to shoot. The idea was to have the...
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Tweet Three days prior to the full moon of each month, an alarm goes off on my iPhone as a reminder. It’s really cute. The app plays the sound byte from the Apollo moon landing back in 1968… you know the one… ”one small step for man…one giant leap for mankind.” It still gives me chills. In case you want...
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Tweet A year or two ago I was coming home from a trip somewhere, might have been a speaking gig I had in Dallas. Anyway, my plane landed at a terminal at SFO which was new to me. What a great welcome home! There was delightful whimsical art hanging from the ceilings all along the corridor from the gate back to the main terminal. Since I always carry...
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Tweet My Golf Index Dropped By Eight It wasn’t too many years ago that I read a Deepak Chopra book about golf while vacationing in Maui. Golf for Enlightenment introduced a little zen into my golf game with the message; SFT… See it, Feel it, Trust it. ”Be one with the ball” is what it kept saying. Remain unattached to the...
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Tweet This photo of the Little Church That Could is another of the photos from my trip last week where I met fellow HDR photographer, Scott Johnson (.. but I like to call him “Toadie”) who runs a simialar blog featuring yummy limited edition photos of his island of Vancouver… Toad Hollow Photography . Getting...
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Tweet Black & White Using Topaz B&W Effects 2 Plugin Last time I talked about the newly released Topaz Black & White Effects 2 plugin and gave you the 15% discount promo code, in case you decide to add it to your bag of tricks. Since then, I’ve taken some time to play with it and created the HDR black & white photo for...
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Tweet Raise your hand if you ever do any black & white photography. How about HDR black & white? For old time black and white shooters, like me, revisiting this traditional medium in the digital age with HDR technology can lead to new and amazing images! Topaz is making it easier for any photographer to now make compelling black & white...
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Tweet Own this theater today The Captain Meets Toadie It’s been a great trip up to visit the nice people and photograph the stunning scenery around Victoria, B.C. Canada this past week. One of the major highlights of my trip was meeting the legendary HDR photographer Scott Johnson of Toad Hollow Photography. By chance we connected and had a delightful...
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Tweet Purchase this fine art landscape photo It’s been many years since I was on a ferry boat. This past weekend, while and visiting a friend in Victoria B.C., we drove up Vancouver Island a few dozen kilometers to go see the remote cabin she just built. The countryside up here is very picturesque and I could spend quite a lot of time here...
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Tweet When I was a young teenager I tried to learn tennis. I guess my heart never was in it passionately because I gravitated to golf, so tennis is a long forgotten sport for me. For my sister it was huge and I have friends who still play. My home is in the Crow Canyon Country Club where I golf with friends twice a week but never have I had an...
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Tweet Buy This Photo Adobe Sale on Lightroom 4 This morning I woke up to receive a gift to give to you from Adobe software! Adobe emailed me about a two-day sale this week offering very substantial savings to purchase either Lightroom 4.3 or the Photoshop Elements 11 bundle. Today’s photo of a couple having wedding engagement photos taken at the San...
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Tweet Since I’m not famous yet, my print prices are cheap Public Photo Studio I had always heard that the rotunda at the San Francisco City Hall is pretty amazing! Friday I was meeting my son for dinner in The City so decided to go early and see about getting inside City Hall for some photography. Of course, security checked my camera bag....
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Tweet How Would This Balinese Scene Look on Your Wall? A huge sense of peace comes over me when I see a beautiful lotus flower. One of the real treats for me, in Asia, is seeing them about everywhere I go. There’s Bali lotus, Thailand lotus, Vietnamese Lotus… southeast Asia is a lotus-happy place. The possible exception; I don’t remember...
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Tweet iPad iArt – Digital download or print only $1.99 Never Miss Your Starbucks Again! Ah, so far from home and yet, a man can still enjoy the simple pleasures of being there. It’s not like there is a Starbucks on every corner in Asia, but …… well, almost. Next time you are in Ubud, Bali, look for this familiar & comforting...
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Tweet Do You Have a Wall for this print? What a fun few acres of land Garden of the Gods is! The rock formations here are amazing, just like in other parts of the Southwest. Odd rocks and roots and natural twisted stuff like that has always attracted me. So when I was on a road trip last summer taking my daughter back to school in Boulder, I found myself...
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Strangely enough, Captain Photo has never been the captain of anything, except his golf team in high school. He was on a big boat once, a cuise ship, and was banned from the bridge while offering to help navigate after leaving the ship's nightclub at 3 AM.
What I, Captain Photo, can do for you is to help sail the stormy seas of HDR photography. It's treacherous out there. I've been shipwrecked more than once. (I wasn't Captain those times)
Read the blog and learn the easy and inexpensive process of making Perfect HDR photographs that beginners will love and will make your friends begin to reassess and elevate your worth! You'll quickly be sailing smooth and making amazing images!
~Captain Photo 
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