Front Range of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Beautiful Bruce! Absolutely beautiful!!! Greetings, Dick.

Greetings Dick -- thanks for the kind words and welcome back.

Yellow star. Marilyn

Bruce, I wish you and your family and your friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I wish good luck and success to all of you.

With the best regards with Christmas from Russia, Sergej

Thank you kindly Marilyn -- good to hear from you again. I just went through your yellow star collection and I am honored to be among some awesome photos -- thanks.

Happy holidays Sergej -- greetings from California.

Hi Bruce. It looks a little "constructed," but who cares. It's a beautful composition. Well done.

Hank

Foreground light is perfect, Bruce. Lovely photo. I may have said it before, but Merry Christmas.

This is a fantastic photo...The sharpness of the mountain peaks against the blue night sky is incredible..and the moon an added bonus! Well done!

Thanks Hank, I got the moon idea from Rich Ryer and Dick V. -- it works pretty well for balance here.

Good to hear from you again George and Julie -- welcome back and thanks for the comments.

All the best for 2008 to all of you 8^)

Greetings Bruce, Nicely done. The composition works very well. Merry Christmas.

Cheers,

Rich

Bruce,

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!

Dann

I just came across your work - I was looking at Whiskeytown Falls and saw your "Road Less Traveled" in Lewiston. This is a venue for our local British Car club at least once every year; I'm so glad it's showing on Google Earth.

I LOVE the light on this mountain! Also your Yellowstone Falls shots are pretty too.

Paul

Thanks Paul -- a bunch of British cars around the Lewiston pump would look pretty cool!! Happy trails.

Greetings Bruce, Wow, what a beauty. This photo still just blows me away. And to think it is right outside Calgary. Great job. Wonderful lighting.

Cheers,

Rich

There is a lot of beauty just outside of Calgary, Rich. All the best for 2008!

A definite desktop candidate! What camera settings did you use here?

Hi Snemann good to hear from you again. This photo is a composite of three pictures shot with ± f2 at 1/60th of a second, centered on f5.6. I put the photos together as 3 layers in photoshop, with the lighter exposure used for the foreground, middle exposure used for near ridgelines and the darker exposure used for the mountains. It is kind of like HDR, but done manually, because I didn't like the 'artificial' look that I got when I played with HDR in PhotoMatrix. The moon was added later -- in the tradition of Rich Ryer.

Good to hear from you again Mega.

Breathtaking!

Thank you Kathy -- happy trails.