This was shot after sunset using three separate exposures to get detail in the sky as well as in the shadows around the foreground log.
I saw this shot last year and didn't have the lens that I needed to get it right. This year, luckily, the color was better and the surrounding vegetation had grown enough to make the composition more interesting.
I'd never been to this spot before and just happened to be wandering around in the high country not really looking for anything. I came across this scene and just sat there until the light seemed right.
I put this together from a couple of shots I took on Oahu a couple of years back. The foreground was taken off our balcony at Waikiki early one morning. The background was taken on the north shore.
This is a third photo in a series that was taken at approximately the same spot near the Cascade Lakes Hwy. just out of Bend.
I love taking photos of trees, which I think of as some of nature's most beautiful living sculptures. This one was taken in the fall just north of Quartzville, Oregon. I love the deciduous leaves in the background, which look like they are on fire in the printed version of this image. This image has a lot of pixels and prints well up to about 30 " high (over 40" framed).