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::A Warm Neptune::

I would imagine that the warm planet Neptune would be so beautiful, its oceans bubbling with yellow lava in a sea of blue, the horizon brilliantly lit with spectacular yellows and aqua skies, drops of water falling upward to the stars only to return to the surface of the blue ocean as lances of ice.

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carlos

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::Dallas Design District::

Ever since the Dallas Design District has been upgraded with side walks, lighting, manicured lawns, it has been a really nice location for photography.  This is my first, but not the last.  It started raining after my sixth shot.  So had to pack it up and go.  I did manage to get this shot, really nice.


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carlos

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::Rolled Tissue Paper::

I have created some really nice, non-photo, artsy projects with tissue paper.  This time around, I decided to make it my subject.  I tried different lighting, worked the paper in different ways, then I decided to make a flower with it since it was one of the very first things I had learned to do with it back in my elementary days, and I used back lighting.

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::The Nightmare Guardian::

This evening, after watching "The Birdcage", a favorite by the way, I noticed how shadows were playing in the movie, so I decided to have Shadows be the Subject for tonight.  I have to tell you, this was fun.  I created  a series of them.  This one is titled The Nightmare Guardian, the others are as follows:
The Protector
The Ghoul
The Innocent
I could have continued but decided to leave it as is and post my work.  This one, "The Nightmare Guardian" came out perfect! I did not add any color to the image, it is as is, I just increased the black level in Raw Processing, that's it.

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carlos

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::Metal::

Shopping at the hardware store today and I saw this in a bin.  I picked it up and decided it was going to be my subject of the day. I like the texture of the outside and the smooth threads on the inside.

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carlos

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::Blue::

Once you try this with color and water, you will have fun with it.  I know I did.

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carlos

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::Twisted::

Twisted Light...  I could not decide from 4 images.   I took about 65 shots different perspectives.  But this one, is just beautiful!

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carlos

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::String Theory::

My subject here was light.  I was looking for some different light diffraction and liked this best.  It almost seems like a string.  Gives the sense of sound and movement.

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carlos

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::Gummy Bears::

I decided to do gummy bears today.  I was at the grocery store and saw these guys and thought, how wonderful to shoot these translucent candies.  So I got a handful of them.  I took shots of each color solo, then grouped them together and this is the one I liked the best.

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carlos

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::Downtown Dallas View from CitiPlace::

I was coming home from Fry's up north in Plano.  It was the beginning of Twilight time and figured I would head down town to get this image.  I shot the scene at ISO1600.  I wanted that Grain!

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carlos

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::Aza Not Feeling Well::

She has had a tough time these past few days.  I have not been able to focus very much, but have still been able to keep her fluids up and hoping she gets over her fever.  She is just a very little girl, she just turned one in Nov 2010.  I just hate seeing her like this.  So my photo for the day is of her.  I have been with her all day.  I left for about 20 minutes to run to the store and pickup some baby food for her to eat. She has to eat.

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carlos

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::Lights::

I hung these lights on the divider and I remember the image I had taken back in Summer of 04, when I had joined my first Photographers Group.  It was a Photo Shoot we had gone to at the Dallas World Aquarium. I had fun in there!  There was this window on the sub level floor or maybe it was the second floor, these windows had some kind of paper on them, but the light behind was multi colored, so I took a shot and loved how it looked.  This kind of reminds me of it. The lights are visible here, but on that one photo it was a beautiful transition of warm to cool colors.

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carlos

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::Dallas Tollway::

Love this type of photos.  I like the lights how they create tubes going down the roads.

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carlos

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::Tonights Moon::

Tonights moon looks really nice.  It is not the full moon, but I figured I would try this.  My mirror lens was building up dust, so I took it out for a night in the Moon Light.

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carlos

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::Peanut Butter Oatflour Muffin::

A try at photographing some food.  I baked this delicious muffin and decided to use it as my subject, unfortunately, it did not last.  I had to eat it.

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carlos

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::Down Town Dallas in Fog::

Foggy evening after work.  I decided to take a second look.  It's been foggy the past few days and this evening was no exception.  I shot a couple of frames off.  I like this one, it has the Kuai Renaissance Tower and with the lights on the rooftop it gives the beautiful glow in the fog above.

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carlos

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::Dirty Light::

I was inspired to do this light bulb due to the glass fuse enclosure. I also did some with gel filters between the lens and the light.  I got some really good shots, but this one was way better, details the glass fuse enclosure really nice.  I decided to name this Dirty Light, since I did not clean the bulb before the shot, the shots with the color gel was done with a clean bulb, but this adds character and also shows the outline of the bulb.  The gel filtered shots did not have this.

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carlos

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::Fallen Hyacinth::

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::Bokeh OPBG::

Color Out Of Focus!

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carlos

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Looking at a Snow Globe that was given to me by a co-worker while at Godiva.  It was from England. I decided to take a closer look at it.  Here is one of the towers in the Snow Globe House of Parliament.

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carlos