Uploads from [nosamk] KMason photography, tagged landscape, with geodata

Island of solitude

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:18:31 -0700

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“The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision."
-- William Arthur Ward

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 5 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

graffiti skies

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:20:53 -0700

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Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life.
Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
--Rumi

Second Beach just before sunset....

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 400
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 8 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter AND LEE filter holder with LEE circular polarizer and Singh-Ray Daryl Benson reverse ND graduated 2-stop

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]

balancing act

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Tue, 07 May 2013 08:09:52 -0700

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"There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves"
--Frank Herbert

sunset at second...

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/16
Shutter: 4 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: LEE filter holder with LEE circular polarizer and Singh-Ray Daryl Benson reverse ND graduated 2-stop

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
CS6 [luminosity masking]

30 seconds of color

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Thu, 02 May 2013 08:35:27 -0700

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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

Another shot from Kayak

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter: 30 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter AND LEE filter holder with LEE circular polarizer and Singh-Ray Daryl Benson reverse ND graduated 2-stop

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]

Spring sunset

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:11:59 -0700

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"There is a fountain inside you.
Don't walk around with an empty bucket."
--Rumi

Was hoping something nice might wrap up the weekend so we drove out last night to Kayak Point to see what would happen....

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/16
Shutter: 1 second
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: LEE filter holder with LEE circular polarizer and Singh-Ray Daryl Benson reverse ND graduated 2-stop

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
CS6 [luminosity masking]

rows of red

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:14:13 -0700

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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skagit tulips on a cloudy evening

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon AF NIKKOR 85mm f/1.4 D
Focal Length: 85mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/4
Shutter: 1/160 seconds
Filter: Hoya Mooses filters [circ polarizing and 81A warming combined]

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]

Leviathan

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:48:46 -0700

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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”
— Washington Irving

for Jane [my grandmother who passed on winters last evening 2013]

Winter evening at Second Beach

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 25 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

cloudy sunset

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 06:57:38 -0700

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“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life.
Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.”
—Rumi

Autumn sunset at Picnic Point

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 15 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

looking beyond

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:42:17 -0800

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“Open your eyes, for this world is only a dream.”
— Rumi

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 15 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

graph of time

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:30:33 -0800

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“If you find me not within you, you will never find me.
For, I have been with you, from the beginning of me.”
— Rumi

I loved how the receding waves left an amazing pattern of foam on the wet sand.

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 15 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

Milky Way over Rainier

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:40:17 -0800

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“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.”
--Serbian Proverb

I finally tried my hand at a shot I took last fall at Rainier using my buddy Dave Morrow 's 14-24mm lens. I dont think mine came out as good as his....but I was still fairly happy with it :)

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens
Focal Length: 14mm
ISO Speed: 5000
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 30 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: none

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
CS6 [airplane removal]

last light

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:43:41 -0800

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"It is what it is.
You are what you it.
There are no mistakes."
--Tom Robbins [Villa Incognito]

My mistress.....Second Beach. Last bit of light - from December

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 20 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: none

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

camping at the coulee

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:33:58 -0800

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"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Late night camp at the frenchman coulee with Jake Johnson after a last minute decision to go and a snowy trip over the pass [one and a half times!!]

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX DG Diagonal Fisheye
Focal Length: 15mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter: 30 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: none

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]

is anybody out there?

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:22:40 -0800

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G+ Selfy taken at Picture Lake with Mount Shuksan in the background. Me shining a flashlight up towards the milky way.....looking for life. Tried to correct the warp from the fisheye but couldnt get it too great without screwing up me :)

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX DG Diagonal Fisheye
Focal Length: 15mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 30 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: none

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]

fall sunset

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:09:26 -0800

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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
--Leonardo da Vinci

The fall sun coming down across the Tipsoo Lake area - Mount Rainier

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 1/200 second
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: none

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

sunset over the sound

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:20:47 -0800

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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night"
--Edgar Allan Poe.

Met Jake Johnson, Michael Riffle, and [finally] Jim Lundgren yesterday afternoon for sunset out at Picnic Point. I had a great time and enjoyed getting to talk to everyone - despite the bitter cold!! After almost 2 hours out in it I could barely untie my boots when I got back to the car my fingers were so numb.

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/13
Shutter: 3 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: LEE filter holder with LEE circular polarizer and Singh-Ray Daryl Benson reverse ND graduated 2-stop

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
CS6 [luminosity masking]

beware the snow

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:37:08 -0800

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“Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.”

—Catherine Fisher

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 30 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
CS6 [luminosity masking]

snow capped peaks

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:50:29 -0800

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“Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.”
― Félix J. Palma

Was hoping to hike to Heather Lake today but the road up Pilchuck has so much snow on it I was afraid of getting stuck - so I drove down Mountain Loop Rd and pulled off in a couple spots.

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 30 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
CS6 [luminosity masking]

witnessing a dream

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:18:52 -0800

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Know then that the body is merely a garment.
Go seek the wearer , not the cloak.
~ Rumi

Second Beach in La Push, WA. This is ONE frame, not a composite.....and yes I stood still for 25 seconds.

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 25 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
Nik Silver Efex Pro2 [B&W]

second beach winter sunset

nobody@flickr.com ([nosamk] KMason photography) — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 06:19:24 -0800

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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
— E.E. Cummings

A very cloudy sunset on my favorite beach

Equipment:
Camera: Nikon D800e
Lens: Nikon Wide Angle PC-E Nikkor 24mm f/3.5D ED
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/6.7
Shutter: 30 seconds
Tripod: Feisol CT-3422 tripod with center column
Ball Head: Arcatech GV2
Filter: Heliopan Neutral Density 3.0 [10 stops] filter

Processing:
Lightroom 4 [temp, sharpness, etc]
CS6 [luminosity masking]