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Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm lens | ISO 200 1/340 @f9

Thank you for stopping by.  Saturday Jeanne was in Ames visiting her Mother and so after she left I decided to go make some images.  When I went to Madison this Summer to the Graduate School of Banking I went past a place about 15 miles Northeast of Dubuque where they sell outdoor furniture.  They have this colorful display of chairs sitting next to the highway.

I thought about shooting them on the way back from class but it was raining and then when Dave and I went by them a few weeks ago I intended to capture an image on our way back but we chose  another route so I decided that Saturday was the day.

Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm lens | ISO 200 HDR Capture 5 images

I traveled around part of Wisconsin and found some things to shoot but the image above was taken right inside the city limits of Dubuque.  I would have to say this is my all time best barn image.  It was such a beautiful site that I stopped and set up the tripod.

I decided to do an HDR image of the barn just to make sure I captured all the luminance levels.  I really like the way this turned out.  If you want to see a larger image of it (you just can’t do justice to it with a 500 px image here) then Click Here.

Nikon D700 | Nikon 28 - 300 mm lens | ISO 200 HDR 5 images

I went out around 5:00 pm last night to see if I could capture a sunset.  I had an idea where I wanted to go and what I was looking for but when I got there it just wasn’t going to work out.  On the way back to town I found a great scene but it required that I walk a quarter of a mile in fairly high grass.  Ugh, braving the possibility of snakes for the sake of the image I did the walk and set up my tripod.  I will show those images tomorrow.

This is an HDR image of a combine sitting in a field.  Nothing special about that except that it was pitch black when I shot this image.  It took about 8 minutes total to make the image.  If you look in the upper left of the image you will see a white streak.  That is traffic on highway 20 going by while the camera was exposing the shot. 🙂

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.  Be careful.