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Orchid Exhibit at the Denver Botanic Garden

The Den­ver Botanic Gar­den is hav­ing its annual orchid exhibit from Jan­u­ary 12, 2012 through Feb­ru­ary 20, 2012.  The event has more than 200 floor­ing orchids on dis­play.  The gar­den is open from 9 AM to 5 PM.  The exhibit is put on by the Den­ver orchid Soci­ety. Below is a video of our recent […]

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Learn Adobe Lightroom 4 BETA Fast with Chris Orwig

Adobe has just announced its release of Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 4 beta. I am really excited about the new fea­tures in this ver­sion of Light­room. I would like to also intro­duce Chris Orwig pho­tog­ra­phy instruc­tor. Chris has just released his free new 2 hour train­ing video on Pho­to­shop Light­room 4 Beta at Lynda.com. Adobe Photoshop […]

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Fun with Topaz Labs Lens Effect Plug-in

Topaz Labs Lens­ing Effect is a Pho­to­shop plug-in that adds real­is­tic depth of field sim­u­la­tion and cre­ative fil­ters like  neu­tral den­sity, polar­iz­ing, fog, prism affect, soft focus, and much much more.  This gives you the flex­i­bil­ity after the shot to add some pretty cool effects with­out the cost of expen­sive lenses and add-on fil­ters.  The […]

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The Ghost Town of Bonanza Colorado

Last spring we made a trip down to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. We decided to take a dif­fer­ent route home than we nor­mally take so from the Sand Dunes we headed north on High­way 285 in the San Luis Val­ley towards Pon­cha Springs, Col­orado. On the way we dis­cov­ered there was a turnoff […]

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This Christmas give the gift of knowledge!

Lynda.com has over 65,000 tuto­ri­als and all at a very rea­son­able monthly price. Lynda.com has an exten­sive list of courses on pho­tog­ra­phy, includ­ing light­room, Pho­to­shop, video edit­ing, graphic design and other appli­ca­tions, such as web design, Word­Press, pro­gram­ming lan­guages, oper­at­ing sys­tems, Microsoft office, Apple appli­ca­tions and much much more. Give the gift of edu­ca­tion at […]

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Free 2012 Vintage Car Calendar

The new year is almost here and it’s time for a new cal­en­dar. I hope you enjoy our new 2012 vin­tage car cal­en­dar. You can print it on plane or photo paper, save it to your com­puter, share it with your friends.  I will also be pro­duc­ing a 2012 Col­orado cal­en­dar in the next couple […]

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Colorado National Monument

On our last trip to Moab, Utah we decided to take a side trip through Col­orado National Mon­u­ment which is just out­side of Grand Junc­tion.  We’ve dri­ven by Grand Junc­tion many times and stopped for din­ner or lunch just off the free­way as we passed on by, but never really stopped to see Grand Junction […]

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Shooting with the Nikon D7000 at Lynda.com

Shoot­ing with the Nikon D7000 dig­i­tal SLR cam­era – The author, Ben Long, pro­vides a detailed overview of all the func­tion­al­ity of the Nikon D7000 dig­i­tal SLR cam­era.   Ben has authored 9 pho­tog­ra­phy train­ing videos for Lynda.com to date.  The course starts off with what is a DSLR then moves on to how to […]

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Topaz Adjust 5 Just Released

Topaz labs has just announced its release of Topaz adjust 5. As an owner of Topaz adjust. I get a free upgrade. The new ver­sion has 107 new pre­sets, a selec­tive brush that allows you to dodge burn smooth and brush out adjust­ments, a new apply but­ton which allows you to stack mul­ti­ple effects and […]

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Good Times Car Show Old Colorado City in HDR

20th Annual GOOD TIMES CAR SHOW. The Good Times Car Show was held at Ban­craft Park in Old Col­orado City on Sun­day, August 21, 2011. Hosted By Col­orado Cruiz­ers ~Rocky Moun­tain Mus­tangers ~ South­ern Col­orado Mopars ~ Mod­ern Mopar Mus­cle Club of South­ern Col­orado. Up to 400 Mus­tangs, Mus­cle cars, Hot Rods and Clas­sic cars. I have […]

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Learn High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR)

A cou­ple of weeks ago Linda.com announced it had a new train­ing course called Shoot­ing and Pro­cess­ing High Dynamic Range Pho­tographs (HDR). I found this course to be Com­plete and com­pre­hen­sive for begin­ners to advanced. This course is 4 hours 55 min. long. It cov­ers pro­grams like Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5 , the new Nik software […]

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Helicopter over Colorado Springs

I had the oppor­tu­nity to take a ride on a heli­copter over Col­orado Springs. This was a great time to get out the cam­era and shot the local sites. We took off from the Col­orado Springs air­port and headed west over to the Broad­moor Hotel then to the Cheyenne Moun­tain Zoo, the Will Rogers shrine […]

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Topaz Labs B&W Effects Plug-in

Topaz Labs released their new B&W Effects plug-in last August. I have not yet tried this new plug-in, But if it is as good as the rest of the Topaz Labs plug-ins like my favorites Adjust and Sim­plify. It should be a great addi­tion to the Topaz Labs Lineup. In the near future I will […]

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Good Times Car Show Coming to Old Colorado City

20th Annual GOOD TIMES CAR SHOW Sun­day, August 21, 2011 The Good Times Car Show is com­ing to Ban­craft Park in Old Col­orado City. Hosted By Col­orado Cruiz­ers ~Rocky Moun­tain Mus­tangers ~ South­ern Col­orado Mopars ~ Mod­ern Mopar Mus­cle Club of South­ern Col­orado. Up to 400 Mus­tangs, Mus­cle cars, Hot Rods and Clas­sic cars.   Sun­day, August 21, […]

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Alpine Tunnel Pitkin Colorado

The Alpine tun­nel was a part of the nar­row gauge rail sys­tem between Den­ver and Gun­ni­son Col­orado. Con­struc­tion on the tun­nel began in 1880 and started ser­vice in 1882. The tun­nel was then aban­doned in 1910 due to tun­nel cave-ins. This was the first tun­nel to be con­structed through the Con­ti­nen­tal Divide. The tun­nel sits […]

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Build or Buy a Computer for Lightroom 3

Look­ing to speed up  Light­room 3?  In my last arti­cle, Speed Up Light­room 3, I talked about set­ting up pref­er­ences in Light­room 3 to increase per­for­mance and adding a few small upgrades to help speed things up.   But, some­times, your com­puter may be too old to make a dif­fer­ence. you may need a major […]

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Speed up Adobe Lightroom 3

Light­room 3 is a great pro­gram to orga­nize your pho­tos and is an excel­lent tool for edit­ing your pho­tographs. But, if you have an older com­puter sys­tem like I had, Light­room 3 can get a bit slug­gish. Here are a few things I found that can help. Opti­mize Cat­a­log After a while using Light­room you may […]

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Rifle Falls State Park Colorado

This spring we made a trip to Rifle Falls State Park. We trav­eled from Col­orado Springs to Buena Vista, up over Inde­pen­dence pass into the beau­ti­ful town of Aspen. From there, up to Glen­wood Springs and then west on Inter­state 70 to Rifle Col­orado. With over 200% snow pack from last win­ter, the Col­orado waterfalls […]

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Great Sand Dunes National Park and Gator Farm

The great Sand Dunes are not to be missed.  Con­trast of the sand with the snow-capped moun­tains in the back­ground and the creek that flows in front of the sand dunes make for the per­fect pho­to­graph. You can climb the sand dunes with the high­est dunes being about 700 feet above the val­ley floor. Spring […]

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Camera Equipment I Use

Recently I was asked what cam­era equip­ment I use? Below is a list cam­era equip­ment I use. How­ever you may have dif­fer­ent needs than I have. There are many top rate cam­era sys­tems out there like Nikon and Canon among oth­ers. Just remem­ber it’s the pho­tog­ra­pher that takes the pic­tures not the cam­era. Cam­era body: Nikon […]

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10 of My Favorite Places in Colorado to Photograph

Col­orado has some of the most beau­ti­ful places to pho­to­graph in the United States. I’ve lived in Col­orado for the past 16 years and have trav­eled all over the state pho­tograph­ing its beauty. I fig­ure it would be nice to share some of my favorite loca­tions with you. There’s so many beau­ti­ful loca­tions in the […]

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Christmas Under The Sea In Cozumel Mexico

Last Christ­mas 2010 was our 8th trip to Cozumel and our 6th to the Iberostar Cozumel dive resort. This resort is the last resort on the south side of the island.  It was strange being, not only away at Christ­mas,  but also in the Mex­i­can par­adise of Cozumel.  Where’s the snow?  Where’s the cold weather? […]

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Cameras For HDR Photography

Here’s what to look for in a cam­era for HDR pho­tog­ra­phy.  HDR, or High Dynamic Range ‚Pho­tos start  off as 3 or more sep­a­rate pho­tographs at 3 or more dif­fer­ent expo­sures  and then are com­bined with pro­grams like Pho­tomatix.  This process allows one to see the detail in the shad­ows and high­lights that may be […]

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Compare the Advanced Point and Shoot Cameras

Below is a com­par­i­son of the Canon Pow­er­Shot G12, Nikon CoolPix P7000 / P7100, Pana­sonic Lumix DMC-LX5 and the Sam­sung TL500.  I am really excited about these Advanced Point and Shoot cam­eras.  First of all, they sup­port the RAW file for­mat which is what I shoot.  RAW files used in these cam­eras will keep all […]

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Photography Courses at Lynda.com

lynda.com is a great resource for soft­ware video edu­ca­tion, but what you may not know is that Lynda.com also has edu­ca­tion videos on pho­tog­ra­phy and pro­files on pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­phers.   I’m a visual leaner and I expect a good major­ity of you are too. Video train­ing is per­fect for me.  Learn­ing from a book or […]

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