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Copyright © 2010 Deborah M. Zajac. All Rights Reserved

Glacier National Park
Mountain Goat
Montana
Logan Pass

I’m standing on a ledge they just left. There were tourist all over the place. We had a hard time finding a place to photograph them sans people in the background.

This ledge has a nice view of Hidden Lake too.

Copyright © 2010 Deborah M. Zajac. All Rights Reserved
Glacier National Park
Montana
USA
Glacial Valley
Lewis Range

I spent 3 full days shooting in the park with two photographer friends from Canada. They showed me around this wonderful park. I had a great time.
They convinced me to try RAW so this is it-me jumping in with both feet into RAW. They showed me that uploading wouldn’t be hard with Bridge and cs5. They were right! Thank you Gentlemen!
I should have spun my polarizer a bit more here. I don’t know the name of this mountain. I’m looking for a better map than the one the park gave me to find the mountain names.
PP- some recovery, vibrance, and clarity.

Copyright © 2010 Deborah M. Zajac. All Rights Reserved.

A few friends and I were planning to meet at Mission San Juan Bautista to shoot star trails. Using TPE it was determined that the No. Star would line up between the hands of the statue “Praising Man” . I could be wrong about the name. Anyway, a friend and I got there early to shoot the Mission chapel, and the town.
While we were wandering around town we noticed the fog bank rolling in and were afraid it would mess up our plans to shoot Star Trails. After dinner we went up to Fremont Peak to take photos of San Juan Valley and the sunset. When we reached the top all we saw was a sea of fog covering the valley below us.
When we got down to the Mission around 8PM there was no sky or a star to be seen over or around the “Praising Man”.
So we stopped our other friends from coming all the way to San Juan Bautista, then regrouped in Gilroy at a coffee shop. At the “Doctor up your coffee” station next to me was a CHP officer so, I engaged him in a conversation about our goal to shoot Star Trails and I asked him if he knew of a high place with some trees or building we could go and shoot and NOT get in trouble with him or his co workers.
He suggested two places. On heading north and the other Dinosaur Point to the south. The North was socked in so we chose to drive out the 20 miles to check out Dinosaur Point.
We hiked out the road a 1/4 mile then doubled back and got off the road and blazed our own trail up a hilly pasture to take our frames.
We left after 2AM. It got colder and windier as the night wore on. I think the ghosting is from the wind hitting my tripod. I used my body to shield it as much as I could.

So something screwy happened to my frames #96-107 they exposed but recorded no data at all. Rien, nada, zilch. All those frames are black. I have checked all the data and they are exactly as all the frames before #96.

One of the guys shooting with me had the most bizarre green lights all around his sky and couldn’t get a true color and he also had black frames.

Maybe Ghost Hunter’s should go check it out.

Stacked in CS5- Resized
28 Frames,Nikkor 17-35mm @ 17mm, f2.8, 181s, ISO 200, Manual mode.
Nikon D300s

Copyright © 2010 Deborah M. Zajac. All Rights Reserved.

I went to Safari West again. This time on my own to ride shotgun with my favorite guide Adrian.
I had a great time. Adrian had a tour I accompanied. We spent over 4 hours out in the park, then after dropping off the tour group he and I headed back out to the lake where hundreds of tiny little frogs were hatching and hopping all over the place. We spent 40 mins. or so out there shooting frogs and lizards. We wrapped up our day with a lovely Puerto Rican dinner in town. It was a great day!

Adventure Awaits on the Sonoma Serengeti
Picture yourself among some of the world’s most exotic creatures. Come close with giraffes, gazelles, zebras and many of the other 600 animals that inhabit the preserve. Take an exciting three hour, safari drive and explore the wildlife preserve, traveling first in an authentic safari vehicle and then a trek around the inner grounds.

It may not be Africa, but it’s close! With animals roaming and running free outside your safari jeep this safari escape is the closest it comes without requiring a passport.

The wildlife park is designed to give the animals the ability to interact and roam about freely, as well as engage our guests in a once in a life time experience — an African luxury safari in the wine country.
~Safari West

Copyright © 2010 Deborah M. Zajac. All Rights Reserved.

We went for an evening walk up to the nearest Starbucks for my caffeine fix on the second night of visiting Big Baby Boy, and on the way home we passed a convenience store and I popped in to purchase a pack of gum. I wanted Big Red.
The warm, sweet cinnamony taste when it first hit my mouth was delicious!
So what’s your favorite flavor of gum? My least liked flavor is Bubble Gum.

PP- a little curves, layer mask to whiten the background more, vibrance, clairty, cropped and resized.
Thank you Jason for your technical support and walking me through the masking! My new layer max is 3 layers.

I learned that I need to get out my lights and light the white backboard to combat the gray dinghies. If I want to get it right in camera.

Copyright © 2010 Deborah M. Zajac. All Rights Reserved.

On the way down to the shore I had to stop and get this photo. The colors in the sky were awesome on the western side.

When the lake reaches it’s mandated capacity all this will be underwater.

Nikon D300s
Nikkor 17-35mm f2.8 AF-S

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