I was really sick today.

DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
edited May 9, 2011 in Journeys
I was too sick to go to work today.

And I was certainly too sick to wake up before 4:30 this morning and head out to Refugio Beach.

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Definitely too sick to hang around for longer exposures.

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I certainly did not have the energy to head up Figueroa Mountain, where I didn't see cows grazing in the forest...

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...and then get worried they were going to charge me.

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I couldn't have climbed out of the gray and above the clouds.

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(That shot is straight, I swear. It was shot across a hill.)


Or gathered the energy to take enough shots for a simple pano.

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Maybe I could have laid down under a tree to rest, though.
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I would have shot an IR...

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...or two.
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Seeing a lupine in a field of poppies surely would have made feel a lot better.

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I could have lain in the flowers...
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...and soaked up the sun....
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...and the beauty of nature.
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Oh, well. Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow. But somehow, I'm just not sure!
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  • eoren1eoren1 Registered Users Posts: 2,391 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    Damn David...I would love to see your stuff on a 'good' day rolleyes1.gif
    Really like the two with low lying clouds (but still don't believe that first one is straight...headscratch.gif)
    Great IR shots (and I usually don't care for IR...ne_nau.gif)
    And a Muench star amidst the flowers! wings.gif
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    eoren1 wrote: »
    Damn David...I would love to see your stuff on a 'good' day rolleyes1.gif
    Really like the two with low lying clouds (but still don't believe that first one is straight...headscratch.gif)
    Great IR shots (and I usually don't care for IR...ne_nau.gif)
    And a Muench star amidst the flowers! wings.gif
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    Thanks!

    Does this sell it?

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    dlplumer wrote: »
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    Dang nice!
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  • eoren1eoren1 Registered Users Posts: 2,391 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    DavidTO wrote: »
    Thanks!

    Does this sell it?

    Yes but no proof needed. Trying to be witty/sarcastic there...mwink.gif
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  • Ann McRaeAnn McRae Registered Users Posts: 4,584 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    Harumph....maybe I should try being sick!

    Drop dead gorgeous! Love the crooked hill, and the lupin.

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    Andy wrote: »
    Dang nice!

    Thanks, Andy!

    I wish I had done better capturing that magic of the clouds/fog/blue sky. My shots are OK and all, but the scene was just amazing. I'm also not happy with the color on the last poppy. It's not how they look, but I can't recover it. Poppies require a nearly perfect exposure. This one was a little under, and when I raise the exposure in LR on the RAW file it just goes to shit. Still pretty, and all. But it's not how poppies look, and it bugs me.

    OK, I'm done griping. thumb.gif
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
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    Ann McRae wrote: »
    Harumph....maybe I should try being sick!

    Drop dead gorgeous! Love the crooked hill, and the lupin.

    Thanks, Ann!

    We've got a little slump in workflow at work, so it works for everyone for me to take a couple of days. I've got tomorrow, too. Not sure what I'm gonna do, yet.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    eoren1 wrote: »
    Yes but no proof needed. Trying to be witty/sarcastic there...mwink.gif

    This one is shooting downhill, so it's missing the crazy slant, but I find it to be not as interesting.

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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    Fan. Tastic. :D
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited April 6, 2011
    Wow, David, you should be sick more often!

    I especially like the tree shot and the poppies with the star.

    And the anxious bovine.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    pathfinder wrote: »
    Wow, David, you should be sick more often!

    I especially like the tree shot and the poppies with the star.

    And the anxious bovine.

    Thanks, Jim. Just the other day a friend had told me how a cow had charged her. I got spooked, and nearly tossed my camera in the trunk trying to get in the car. I felt silly, but I'd rather feel silly than mauled. thumb.gif
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    schmoo wrote: »
    Fan. Tastic. :D

    Thanks. Schmoo. thumb.gif
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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited April 6, 2011
    Oh, and it also looks like you have mastered the art of shooting flowers with the extension tubes. This is totally trippy, dude.
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    Can't wait to see what you get tomorrow :D
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,156 moderator
    edited April 7, 2011
    Gorgeous images David. I am envious. thumb.gifthumbclap.gif
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  • indiegirlindiegirl Registered Users Posts: 930 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2011
    I want what you got. Bring on that sickness!
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,249 moderator
    edited April 7, 2011
    David, I hope you feel better real soon. Whoever took your camera(s) out and did all that hiking and shooting, they did a fantastic job at it. Hope you can join in the fun next time and get some shots on your own - that is - if you can somehow take a day off from work.
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  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,383 moderator
    edited April 7, 2011
    Wow David - I'd like to have a photo day like your sick day!
    These are fabulous.

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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited April 7, 2011
    Hey, is it contagious? Can I get some? mwink.gif

    Gorgeous set. Hard to pick a favorite but I keep going back to that very wide tree shot.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited April 7, 2011
    indiegirl wrote: »
    I want what you got. Bring on that sickness!
    David_S85 wrote: »
    David, I hope you feel better real soon. Whoever took your camera(s) out and did all that hiking and shooting, they did a fantastic job at it. Hope you can join in the fun next time and get some shots on your own - that is - if you can somehow take a day off from work.
    denisegoldberg wrote: »
    Wow David - I'd like to have a photo day like your sick day!
    These are fabulous.

    --- Denise
    Richard wrote: »
    Hey, is it contagious? Can I get some? mwink.gif

    Gorgeous set. Hard to pick a favorite but I keep going back to that very wide tree shot.


    Thanks, all! It was a glorious day.
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  • BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited April 8, 2011
    Sorry to hear you were under the weather. I can tell it really rolled over you. I hope I catch what you got. Great shots as usual. The cow in the forest is very striking.
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  • PhotophiliaPhotophilia Registered Users Posts: 16 Big grins
    edited April 9, 2011
    These are all really beautiful. I would say I hope you feel better soon....but nah :) Love your humor and the shot you took while you laid down to rest.
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
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    BradfordBenn wrote: »
    Sorry to hear you were under the weather. I can tell it really rolled over you. I hope I catch what you got. Great shots as usual. The cow in the forest is very striking.
    Photophilia wrote: »
    These are all really beautiful. I would say I hope you feel better soon....but nah :) Love your humor and the shot you took while you laid down to rest.

    Thank you both for the kind words!
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2011
    DavidTO wrote: »

    ...and soaked up the sun....
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    ...and the beauty of nature.
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    All magnificent, but these two bowdown.gifbowdown.gifbowdown.gifbowdown.gif

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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
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    divamum wrote: »
    All magnificent, but these two bowdown.gifbowdown.gifbowdown.gifbowdown.gif

    ~in awe~

    Thanks! I really owe a huge debt to Marc Muench for both of those shots (and all of them, really). Learning from him has really improved my photography. And both of those, that first one, especially, are cribbed from shots I've seen him take in the past.
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
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    DavidTO wrote: »
    Thanks! I really owe a huge debt to Marc Muench for both of those shots (and all of them, really). Learning from him has really improved my photography. And both of those, that first one, especially, are cribbed from shots I've seen him take in the past.

    I wish I'd seen something like these before I did the Strobist HoCo shoot last year - soooo many ideas now in my head that would have served me well then!

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  • lisaplisap Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2011
    Beautiful. Loved every single one! iloveyou.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2011
    Awesome stuff, David! bowdown.gifclap
    Under normal circumstances I'd wish you "get well soon", but in this case I can only say "stay sick" mwink.gif
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
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    lisap wrote: »
    Beautiful. Loved every single one! iloveyou.gif
    Nikolai wrote: »
    Awesome stuff, David! bowdown.gifclap
    Under normal circumstances I'd wish you "get well soon", but in this case I can only say "stay sick" mwink.gif
    Thanks, guys! :davidto
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