(HDR image of ripening grapes on the vine) We visited Pollak Vineyards on a bright, sunny day in late July. The grapes on the vines had just turned purple. In the bright sun I had a challenge to capture the light on the grapes and bringing out their color while managing the dark shadows and very bright highs of the sunlit vines. The HDR shot turned out best, giving truly the sense of how bright and vibrant those wine grapes were.
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Sep 17, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: bunch, bunch of grapes, grape bunches, grape vine, grape vines, grapes, HDR, high dynamic range, IMP, Land & Air, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, Pollak, Pollak Vineyards, purple, ripe, ripening, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tourism, tourist, VA, VA Wine, VA Wine IMP, VA Wine In My Pocket, VAWineInMyPocket.com, veraison, vine, vines, vineyard, Virginia, Virginia Wine, Virginia Wine In My Pocket, wine, winery | Leave A Comment »
Photo taken on the back porch outside the second-floor tasting room at Sharp Rock Vineyards on a very hot and bright day in July. I loved the wood tones inside the porch. The empty old porch was to my eye beautiful and contrasty as it as lit by the sunlight washing in through the open side that overlooked vineyards, but the bright sunlight glare from outside made getting the right exposure a challenge.
Visiting Wineries is a post from: thePhotoTourist.com.
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Sep 11, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: 150 wineries in 150 days, 150 wineries tour, antique, bright, deck, furniture, HDR, high dynamic range, IMP, In My Pocket, Land & Air, Nikon, photo, Photo Tourist, Photomatix, PhotoMatix Pro, Photoshop, PhotoTourist, porch, Ratcliff, shade, Sharp Rock, Sharp Rock Vineyards, Sharp Rock Winery, Sharp Rock Winery and Vineyard, Stuckincustoms, sunny, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, tour, tourism, tourist, Trey Ratcliff, tutorial, VA, VA Wine, VAWineInMyPocket, VAWineInMyPocket.com, view, vineyard, Virginia, Virginia Wine, Virginia Wine In My Pocket, wineries, winery, wood | Leave A Comment »
The Washingtonian Magazine’s August 2010 issue features one of my photographs on the cover: a hot-air balloon lifting off at the Shenandoah Balloon, Wine, and Music Festival. A couple years ago my lovely bride Nancy brought the festival to my attention. My head immediately filled with dreams of those emblematic photos of balloons filling, lifting […]
Jul 29, 2010 | Categories: News & Updates, Photo Credits | Tags: 2010, august, august 2010, balloon, balloon festival, balloonfest, clip, clips, cover, cover photo, festival, hot air balloon, hot-air balloon festival, magazine, Millwood, music festival, periodical, photo, photograph, publication, published, Rick Collier, The Washingtonian Magazine, Washingtonian, Washingtonian Magazine, wine festival | Leave A Comment »
The cover of The Washingtonian Magazine August 2010 issue is this photo by Rick Collier of a balloon lifting off at dawn. The original image is named “Dawn Lift” and I originally blogged about it in August 2009.
Washingtonian Cover: Balloon by Rick Collier is a post from: thePhotoTourist.com.
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Jul 23, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: balloon, balloon and wine festival, balloon festival, balloon launch, balloons, cover, cover photo, cover shot, dawn, dawn lift, hot air, hot air balloon, Land & Air, lift, liftoff, Millwood, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, publication, Rick Collier, the Photo Tourist, The Washingtonian, thePhotoTourist, tourism, tourist, Virginia, Washingtonian, Washingtonian Magazine, Winchester, wine festival | Leave A Comment »
Every Fourth of July Nancy and I invite a group of friends and neighbors to cruise on a deckboat on Lake Thoreau at sunset, to watch the evening’s impromptu celebrations of Independence Day. Enormous, professional-grade starburst shells go off overhead as bottle rockets inscribe arcs over or between the boats. The whole thing is spontaneous and unplanned. Our music was a mashup of Sousa marches and patriotic country. This is America’s birthday, lake-style.
Fourth of July Mashup is a post from: thePhotoTourist.com.
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Jul 10, 2010 | Categories: thePhotoTourist | Tags: 2010, 4 July, 4 July 2010, 4th, 4th of July, 7-4-2010, 7/4/2010, barge, boat, Boating, boats, Celebration, Celebration Fun, countryside, deck boat, Deckboat, fireworks, Fourth of July, geotagged, HDR, Independence Day, July, July 4, July4th2010, lake, Lake Thoreau, Lakewinds, Land & Air, landscape, lights, national day, party, party barge, Patriotic, People, photo, Photo Tourist, PhotoTourist, Reston, South Lakes, summer, the Photo Tourist, thePhotoTourist, Thoreau, tourism, tourist, United States, US, USA, VA, view, views, Virginia | Leave A Comment »
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