Yearly Archives: 2013

Ox cart in Costa Rica

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We were on our way to Quepos from Jaco in a taxi, we had waited a few hours for the bus and after seeing none heading south, we grabbed a taxi. This is along the main road that runs near the Pacific Coast. While we were unsuccessful in taking a bus down to Quepos, we were able to catch a directo bus back to San Jose but were able to get off near Jaco and walk the mile(?) back. This is an old photo from my second or third trip to Costa Rica, I’ve always loved this particular photo.

I’m not sure if I took it with a film camera or a digital camera and had them converted to digital at the time of developing, the photo EXIF information is vague but has the word Kodak (that’s who would have done the conversion but I also had a digital pocket Kodak camera at that time).

Sunset on the Train Tracks

I was driving through Schoolcraft, Michigan (very southwest Michigan) and saw the way the sunset was shining on the train tracks so I turned around and parked so I could a few photos.

I took this with my iPhone but I might have used the Camera+ app, which allows for a little easier focusing on one area when determining the light source from another. But I don’t know how to tell if it was from Camera+ once it gets into my camera roll (it doesn’t seem to be in the EXIF photo info).

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Ambassador Bridge from Michigan Central Station

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This was taken from Michigan Central Station (Roosevelt Park) just off of Michigan Avenue in Detroit. You can see the Ambassador bridge in the distance. This is a slightly brightened version of something I think I’d done a little HDR tweaking to. Actually, the filename revealed that I “enfused” it, which is something along the lines of HDR, in that it looks at several different photos (some light, some dark) to make portions of the picture clearer.

Leaves backlit at the Botanical Gardens

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Taken at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, Michigan while I was experimenting with some closeup photos. I’m taking the photo with the sun behind it, shining through the greenhouse-type building that I was in.

I chose this one for a Photo Friday challenge with the topic of Patterns. I hard a had time deciding so I actually uploaded two, the next photo has leaf patterns too.

Leaf magnified at the Botanical Gardens

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Taken at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, Michigan while I was experimenting with some closeup photos. It almost looks like there is something crawling on top of it. I’m taking the photo sort of from below as the sun is above the greenhouse-type building that I was in.