Author Archives: Karen

Spring is Coming

As spring is approaching and I’m anxious for the flowers to start blooming so I can play with my macro lense, I’ve picked out a few floral images to share.

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The Sioux Falls in a Different Light

This is an image I’ve been working on of the Sioux Falls as part of my quest for that ‘perfect image’ of the falls.  It involved combining images of different exposures and processing it via HDR (high dynamic range).  In doing this, it captures the best of the various exposures of light in the photograph. [...]

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Color Effects

Traditionally, I usually process my images in color, as I’ve always felt that color gives variety and makes a photograph more interesting.  However, I’ve been playing with black and white effects after taking a few webinars focusing on that subject.  I think that they each have their own personality, but was surprised how much contrast [...]

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Texas Sunset

My family traveled to Dallas in November to spend Thanksgiving with Bryan’s sister, along with the rest of their family.  Unfortunately, while we were there, it was warmer in South Dakota than it was down there.  However, on the day we went to their lake cabin, it was warm enough to wear shorts (for a [...]

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Dragonfly at the Palisades

As I’m working on getting my website set up, I was going through some images that I took at the Palisades State Park in August of this year.  I love the way this dragonfly turned out.

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