Bhutan - The Last Shangri-la

Bhutan was wonderful! The people delightful, the scenery spectacular and all the other things (weather, food, accommodation, travelling) worked well. We would go back in a flash!

Here are some pictures from the festival we attended in Paro--the colours, movements, sounds and people-watching made for sensory overload. Again, I've just processed these in Lightroom, I have found that, when working with a large number of images (yes, I took too many!), Lightroom is far easier and faster than Photoshop and Bridge.

Finally, some images from India

This is the first time I've tried to export images using Lightroom--just hope it works! I had so many pictures (45 days worth) that I found it far easier and faster to process using Lightroom than Bridge and Photoshop.
While in India (mostly in Rajasthan but with visits to Agra for the Taj Mahal and to Veranasi to see the Ganges) we saw many wonderful things and so many fabulous colours. But, India is not an easy place to travel and we had the unfortunate incident of our bus going off the road and turning over on its side. Luckily nobody received more than bumps and bruises but my D200 flew off my lap, hit my husband on the head and resulted in his needing three stitches. I think he might want me to go back to a point-and-shoot!

Judith's Fancy

Judith's Fancy
Originally uploaded by The Lens Mount.

Hi everyone!

Hope all is well with you. As you can see I'm traveling a bit. My bosses happen to live in St. Croix, a US Virgin Island, and are allowing us to house sit during their absence. So I'm actually missing quite a bit of the cold this year.

Here is a hand held shot of the local neighborhood. If anyone is looking for an awesome travel lens for hand held shooting on a Nikon, try the AF-S DX VR Zoom-NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED. Unfortunately it's pricey but fun to use.

Mark

Snow Blanket

Snow Blanket
Originally uploaded by The Lens Mount.

Happy holidays everyone! Santa brought me a new lens to play with so I'm taking a photo break each day to make a few compositions.

Hope you are all having a great holiday season.

Mark

Homeless in the Annex

Hi Leslie and all - sorry to have been silent for so long.

Our move to Toronto has taken all our time until just recently.

Anyway, all the new images from you and others are amazing - too many for me to comment just now.

Here's one from Janie's and my first real daylight walk around our new neighbourhood - we're right downtown, and encounter all slices of life.

I'll be back!

Is anyone still here?

Here are a couple of images I played around with using a technique I learned this morning on the Radiant Vista website. The top one was taken on a back road while on a trip to Crater Lake, Oregon, a couple of years ago; the bottom one was taken from our hotel window while we were visiting Seattle for the opera (the Ring Cycle), also a couple of years ago. I call them "mystery roads"

Hope everyone is well, and still having fun with their photography. Please post something soon, just to say "Hi".

Cheers

Macro Lilacs

This is something new I've read about and now experimenting with. I don't have a fancy macro lens,but I bought a reversal ring for my old 50mm lens. At first I couldn't get any depth of field so I tried larger fsetting and with the tripod and a longer exposure managed to get this shot. I did tweak the exposure a small amount in Photoshop.

Late Snow Storm- May 17,2007

Hi All, Thought I'd put up a post to keep Lesley company. The snow quickly left and now were gardening instead of shoveling.