I made this photograph at the abandoned Miami Marine Stadium in Key Biscayne, which overlooks downtown Miami. The sunset was spectacular that night, so I took a 30-second exposure.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.

Nikon D600, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G.

Photo Settings: 50mm, f/10, 8 seconds, ISO 100.

This image was taken on a hiking trip in February of 2010, in the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. I had just gotten a new camera so on my way back from Central Oregon I stopped to hike some of the trails and take some pictures. It was a nice and clear sunny day, and not too cold - perfect for hiking that area. I took this at the first parking area and trail.

The gray layers are mudstone, siltstone, and shale formed from sediments deposited on an ancient river floodplain. The black layers are manganese nodules or manganese stains. The red layers are ancient soil profiles (laterites) that formed on floodplain deposits. Surface weathering relatively quickly breaks down these rocks into a clay-rich surface coating that easily erodes during summer flashfloods and/or winter storms.

Canon EOS 7D, Canon 17-40mm F/4L.

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This is the business end of an LED flashlight, taken with the 100mm macro. Talk about suffering for your craft, I was seeing spots for days afterwards.

Sunset over the Grampians, Victoria.

This is crop from an HDR panorama taken on May 9, 2010, during a hike along the Island Peak trail. I held the camera still against a railing, and each slice is created from exposures at 0.5, 5, and 13 seconds. It would have been easier to take the photos with a tripod, but i probably wouldn't have hiked as far, and probably wouldn't have gotten the same perspective. There is quite a bit of haze in the air, but at night it helped catch the light from the buildings.

Nikon D90, Nikon 18-200mm, Photomatix 3.1, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Lightroom 2.7.

On the back side of Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in Edgewater, British Columbia, Canada.

Nikon D700, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 16-35mm f/4G ED VR.

Marvelous orange sunset near Lorient on the south of Brittany.

Oahu, Hawaii.

Some happy tomatoes sitting in a dish by my windowsill. Shot with a Nikon D300 and a Micro-Nikkor 105mm VR.