ouuu. Pretty colours! This is great! The colours give it a nice warm feeling, yet the whole abandoned aspect of this resort give it an emptiness and cold feeling.

Thank you! Cold is right. ;) I like this place best in the winter months (for night photography), but it's FREEZING!

Well DUH! it's winter and you are near a lake, or ocean, or whatever :P A large body of water!

I go into it expecting this though, so I'm well dressed. ;)

well, that's good! ^^

> 'Notice
> Park Temporarily
> Closed'
>
> Sure.


"Temporarily" in terms of geological time. ;)

Another striking photograph! I love low-light images, and now that digital cameras allow people to experiment with tripod set-ups and framing attempts at no extra cost, I imagine we'll be seeing more and more pictures taken at dusk or by moonlight.

Hehe.

When you spend enough time (years) with film, I'm sure you would get a fairly good idea of proper settings from evening to evening, pending on lighting conditions and such, but you're absolutey right; the world of digital photography really helps us newer photographers take on bigger things and learn -while- capturing exactly what we want, the battery life being our only vice with time. Digital sensors are getting better and better with noise, so low light photography is really starting to pick up. It's by far my favorite.

I think the biggest advantage of digital photography in low-light conditions is that lighting can be so minimal that you might not be certain where to point the camera, but you can set up the tripod, take a low-resolution, long-duration exposure, study it on the LCD, move the camera slightly for a better composition, take another shot, study it, move the camera just a *little* bit more for an even better composition, and so on. Finally, when the composition looks good, you can take a high-resolution picture as your definitive image. An attempt to do this kind of experimentation with film would eat up your savings; but on a digital camera, you can experiment as much as your patience, your battery, and your frozen fingertips allow.

You hit it right with that for sure. The more I work in similar conditions, the more I find myself taking one photo as opposed to 5, but it's a life saver to go digital and review on the fly. However, you might be surprised how well an image can look on a tiny LCD, vs. the horrible true outcome on a large LCD at home when you upload it. :) But for the most part, you're absolutely correct. I don't think I'm quite ready for film yet in any other conditions than perfectly lit.

Wow, I love the amazing colors this picture has. :X

Thank you. :)

What is it about your photography that I love so much? Oh...everything! Great work, lovely composition.

Haha, now that is a complement! *Snug* Thank you so much. ;) I've been struggling with framing as of late. With photography in general, actually. Photographers block? Not sure if that counts. ;)

Heh, for some reason I look at that and wonder if that's what the edge of man's heaven must look like.

That wouldn't be a bad thing at all. It's amazing how exposing the distant city lighting near the coast can produce such a life-like reproduction of the sunrise / sunset.

Hehe, you bad wuff....always sneakin' in to places you shouldn't go. :P But then again....what ambitious photographer wouldn't? ;)

*Flex* ;) No no. The residents don't mind if you're there to enjoy the scenery or take photos. It's the vandals they want to keep out.

Oh, and if that sign didn't stop you...you think it's gonna stop a group of rowdy kids?

No, but the webcams and motions sensors do. ;)

Ah...okay. xD

ahhh, the golden hour
nice one, I like the warm tones here

Thank you. :)

Okay... as I looked at this, the radio started playing David Bowie's "Golden Years." Freaky.

Freaky indeed. ;)

Sometimes we all get a bit of artists or photographers block. Seems you're doing pretty well though. :)

HUGS

*Snugs up* Thank you! Always good to hear. :)

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