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The view out my front door, 5 minutes ago.

I take it you're tired of winter.
Recently I moved to south texas, so it's basically hot all year.

Hehe. Take advantage of it and go primitive winter camping!

I did get a good workout shoveling it.

It was also a good painting day.

I wiped out on the way to work this-morning and had to dig the car out of a foot of hard snow with an ice-scraper! That was a pretty good work-out too.

It's so Cold, there can't be Global Warming. video by greenman3610

Nice one, Roid.

My back yard as of today:



Also, Oregon just had the 5th warmest Jan. on the records (past 134yrs or so.) Maybe next winter you'll get your share of global warming

I hope so…I’m tired of paying these fuel bills.

Hmm. Looks kind of surreal there Grendel.

But yeah, seems to be a west coast thing. Vancouver's had a fair bit of rain, but almost no snow (just a couple days in early December).

Sirius wrote:Hmm. Looks kind of surreal there Grendel.

Yeah, tone compressed HDR image. Had it at hand

The originals are:



It was a nice day today.

Yeah Grendel, love that first picture. I've read about tone compressed images and must admit, they are awfully cool looking.

(p.s.) Any word from KB?

Nada

Using this software BTW.

hmm..Grendel, I dont see no horseshoe pits

Grendel wrote:

Sirius wrote:Hmm. Looks kind of surreal there Grendel.

Yeah, tone compressed HDR image. Had it at hand

The originals are:



It was a nice day today.

Thought I'd give it a try.
I filtered the darker image. was a bit easier than tweeking the lighter one. only spent about 3 minutes on it.

I know it's cloudy and rainy a lot here, but we aren't THAT grey in Oregon, Duper. We do tend to be more green with all the moss on everything!

I just watched this show last night. In one segment, they recovered a stalagmite from an underwater cave and cut it in half lengthwise. What they found was that over the eons, drastic climate change could happen in less than 50 years, within a lifetime! The evidence was in thin layers of red dust within the rock layers that indicated that giant dust storms originating in the suddenly drought stricken Sahara blew all the way over to the Bahamas and colored the dripping cave water that formed the stalagmites (the caves were above sea level at the time). These periods of drought happened in a very short time periods too.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field ... holes.html

The gray wasn't intentional. When you go from dark to light, that's what you get. Grendal's software manufactured color. I didn't play with saturation. I was trying to avoid the surreal effect that Gren's picture had.

Yeah, your clouds came out better, but the ground looks kind of colorless.

The brighter one is actually the one w/ 0 exposure compensation. Also, these pictures are pretty flat since the are converted from raw (12bit/channel) w/o any tone corrections to RGB (8bit/channel) -- huge information loss. When I get home I'll take the \"correct\" exposed one and run it trough my usual development path for comparison.

Here is how the two shots would look like w/ the regular processing:

Climate Change 101 With Rachel Maddow

haha

I've got a few more pictures- I'll try to upload them today after work... b/c I got nailed again yesterday.