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Mike.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~ Lewis Hine

This bus stop sits, abandoned, inside a disused psychiatric hospital. Just after a rain shower, the site was incredibly quiet and still, and the sky brought an added sense of foreboding and drama.
I had wanted to take an HDR photo, but didn’t have my tripod, so the resulting exposures were impossible to align properly. I exposed the RAW at -2, -1, 0, 1 and 2 EV, then used Photomatix Pro to combine them and tone map to bring out the sky.

While we were in Canada last year, we saw some beautiful rings made by the Kwagiulth artist Carey Newman. Although the sizes weren’t available in the designs we wanted, he made us some, and we love them so much that I photographed them to go on our wedding invitations. Mine is the larger, Eagle design, and my wife-to-be chose the Raven. Both birds have significance in native Canadian culture:-
You can see more of Carey Newman’s work here.

City Hall, London. My first venture into the world of High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography.
I took three exposures (1 stop difference), hand-held, leaning against a wall, so I was pretty happy with the alignment of the shots. I’ve since had advice that to get the best HDR shots, a range of 5 stops is recommended, so I will try that (with a tripod) soon.
I’ve used Photomatix Pro to combine the exposures and tone map them (I haven’t figured out how to tone-map in Photoshop). I was so impressed by the ease with which I could do the tone-mapping in the Photomatix Pro demo, that I bought a copy!
I’ll write a bit about HDR photography and Photomatix Pro soon.