Another dramatic cloudscape/sunset at Sunset Bay in Oregon. Low tide has corresponded with evening sunset for the last few days so getting to this spot has been easy. It's just so darn cold and windy.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III.

A long exposure view of Half Dome from Glacier Point (the same point of view used on the California state quarter). I love how surreal long exposures can be and this evening brought us some deep colors late in the evening. It was actually dark enough that we needed flashlights to walk safely.

Adobe Lightroom 4.3.

Nikon D80, Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED.

Photo Settings: 18mm, f/4, 30 seconds, ISO 100.

Map: 37.7308, -119.5728

A lovely toile pattern featuring mermaids, crabs, coral, anemones and other enchanting sea creatures. I was influenced by sailor tattoos and tiki drinks when I made this. I drew it all by hand, then brought the art into Photoshop to arrange in a flowing, repeating pattern.

Adobe Photoshop.

A render in Daz Bryce 7 with a very high depth-of-field effect. It took me very long to get the scene right, especially with these colours... For the first time ever, I opened it up in Photoshop to realize it didn't need any post-processing!

Minimalistic wallpaper for neatness and tidiness.

Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.

Taken at the Portland Japanese Garden late in the Summer of 2012.

Lightroom 3, Hoya Pro 1 5-stop ND over B+W Kaesemann CPL.

Nikon D7000, Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR.

Photo Settings: 31mm, f/11, 2.5 seconds, ISO 100.

ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA.
Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), lying about 1350 light-years from Earth, was taken with the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The new telescope's huge field of view allows the whole nebula and its surroundings to be imaged in a single picture and its infrared vision also means that it can peer deep into the normally hidden dusty regions and reveal the curious antics of the very active young stars buried there. This image was created from images taken through Z, J and Ks filters in the near-infrared part of the spectrum. The exposure times were ten minutes per filter. The image covers a region of sky about one degree by 1.5 degrees.

Full press release: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1006/

Original image: http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1006a/

Taken on Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia about half an hour after sunset.

Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.

Nikon D600, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED.

Photo Settings: 14mm, f/2, 30 seconds, ISO 500.

Another image from Alki Beach in West Seattle. This was the first sunset of 2013 - and it was a good one.

Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM.

Photo Settings: 17mm, f/11, 30 seconds, ISO 50.

This was taken from West Seattle on Christmas Eve 2012, just as rain was moving in on the city. The color in the sky was amazing.

Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM.

Photo Settings: 17mm, f/10, 6 seconds, ISO 100.