Joshua Tree

bryanj87

While visiting my inlaws for Christmas, I took the 2 hour drive out to Joshua Tree National Park. I had been there a few years ago, but only had a p&s of 2 mp. This time, I had my 40D and several lenses. Here are a few of what I captured on Dec 27. Comments and suggestions welcomed. Thanks for looking, and Happy New Year!

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Darren Troy C

#3 is the winner of that group.....very nice, classic silhouette!

Jack'll do

All fine shots but IMHO #2 is breathtaking. thumb

shniks

bryanj87 wrote:

While visiting my inlaws for Christmas, I took the 2 hour drive out to Joshua Tree National Park. I had been there a few years ago, but only had a p&s of 2 mp. This time, I had my 40D and several lenses. Here are a few of what I captured on Dec 27. Comments and suggestions welcomed. Thanks for looking, and Happy New Year!

#2 is awesome... well done!


Cheers,

bryanj87

Thanks everyone!!

dlplumer

Love #2. Is that IR? How did you do that?

jeffmeyers

I like them all. #2 and #3 are the best. The second one does look like an IR shot.

coscorrosa

Wow, you finally found a point to having in-laws!

These are great, the third is my favorite, but I really like the post-processing on the second too.

bryanj87

Thanks again everyone! Yeah Ron, the best part of my inlaws living 3000 miles away (other than the fact they live 3000 miles away) is I always get to take a day to drive around southern Cali to take some pictures whenever I go visit.

I don't remember exactly my post processing for the b/w shot, but I did shoot it in color with a CP and then used Nik Silver Efx to convert it to b/w. I tweaked it to my liking, instead of using one of the canned pre-sets.

ps-my mother in law is actually not so bad, she got me a Speedlite 430EX for xmas!

schmoo

coscorrosa wrote:

Wow, you finally found a point to having in-laws!

Other than the obvious "wow great trees!" I love this thread because it has me in stitches.

I definitely learned something from Dgrin this morning... about in-laws.