Just a few mis images to view and CC

[coffee]

Thanks for looking

[coffee]

Few more....

[kinetic]

Hi Joseph, yet again more excellent shots, the waterfall shots are outstanding and the
first of the two is totally awesome.
Mark

[ladyups]

Joseph, your images are wonderful! Such clarity and sharpness. My favorite is the smoking rose. How did you do this?

[coffee]

Thanks Mark and Mary. It's always nice to get comments like these. Mary it's been a while. How have you been? The smoking rose is something I've been thinking about for a while as a way to get some original stock images up for sale. Sadly the smoking rose has gotten lots of looks but not sales yet. How I ended up doing it was having the dried rose against a black background of course, and using a lit stick of incense held just under the rose. During post work I cloned out any residual smoke and or incense stick out from under the image. Soon I will be trying to do this smoke and rose again to improve on it, as well as some smoke/wine/wine glass images. Thanks for the comments, much appreciated.

[ladyups]

I'm doing good, Joseph, just not 100%. I keep thinking the knees will get better but its slow going.

Thanks for letting me know how you did the rose. I really liked how you did it.

[owenmorris]

Hi Joseph as usual all very nice images I especially like th frog and waterfall images......Beautiful

[Pat]

Hi Joseph. Love them all. I'm curious about the first waterfall image. Is it an artificial falls. I ask because of the visible sun dappled back ground visible for a goodly distance below and behind it.
I once lived in a city that created an artificial waterfall by pumping water from a river to a series of ported pipes that ran along a bridge high overhead.

[Kaye]

I also love them all Joseph. Love the frogs. It is a pity the green frog was camera shy - he could have turned around!
Particularly like the 1st waterfall. It appears as if you have taken it from within a sort of cave. Was this the natural lighting, or did you use lighting affects?

[coffee]

Hi Joseph. Love them all. I'm curious about the first waterfall image. Is it an artificial falls. I ask because of the visible sun dappled back ground visible for a goodly distance below and behind it.
I once lived in a city that created an artificial waterfall by pumping water from a river to a series of ported pipes that ran along a bridge high overhead.

Hi Pat, thanks for the comments. This is a natural creek that runs off then back into the Mississippi river I believe. It's one of the most popular parks in Minneapolis.

I also love them all Joseph. Love the frogs. It is a pity the green frog was camera shy - he could have turned around!
Particularly like the 1st waterfall. It appears as if you have taken it from within a sort of cave. Was this the natural lighting, or did you use lighting affects?

Thanks Kaye. This is not natural lighting. There is a spot that illuminates the falls at night. It was a little harsh I know. I did get some better shots about a half hour after this one when it was light enough that the spot light wasn't noticeable. There is no cave, just the lower part of the falls. Thanks for the comments .