Cave, SI New Zealand

Aspire

Here are some shots I took yesterday, lovely spring day - these were taken with the stock 18-55 EF-S IS lens & circ polarising filter. These images have only been light edited when they were converted from RAW to JPEG - are a little darker than I intended as the monitor I converted them on wasn't calibrated properly and I couldn't wait to get them up BTW some may think they are over saturated but that is really how green the grass was, we had a recent rain shower and the spring growth just went mad. My partner and I went out around 4.30pm and left the church round 6pm (sun sets around 8pm at the moment here)Thanks for looking The photos are no where near as fancy or dramatic as some of the landscape shots on here but I like them!

BBiggs

Pretty shots!!!

ArtPhotography

These are nice shots. Very vivid colors.

Jack'll do

Very well done. Extremely serene.

Schnauzer

I like them also.

jamesl

Great stuff! Wish I was there right now, rather than up here where winter is about to set in. Keep them coming so that we can live vicariously through you.

James

Aspire

Thanks everyone for the kind words - it was a beautiful day and with all the spring growth it really felt I was in a vibrant painting! Weather has been lovely for the last couple of week, have some more photos to go through so will post more later

James you have some amazing photos, love the IR and lightning ones. I only wish we had more lightning storms here but sadly we don't!

Thanks for looking

Eia

These are lovely and serene; quite a contrast from the colorful fall foilage going on right now. I especially like #2.

jeffmeyers

Lovely shots, James. Good work. A suggestion: how about applying a little D-lighting adujstments to the castle shots and recovering some of the detail in the shadows. I'd did a bit here. But I don't have access to all the data you have on the original, larger files.

Aspire

Wow, thanks Jeff - you did bring out a lot of details. I use Canon's DPP then Elements 7 - as I was in a rush to share the photos all I did was tiny tweak in DPP then converted to JPEG. Should really now that I have more time finish the photos properly!

Thanks for your tip