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#Trip to Gateway Mammoth Cuyahoga National Parks
thorsenmark · 4 years
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I Feel Pretty, I Feel Pretty!
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I Feel Pretty, I Feel Pretty! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: With the extra daylight time I had before my flight, I used that time to spend with my adopted golden retriever, Charlie, even enjoying a nice neighborhood walk. Here he seemed to pose for me as if giving me a few moments of him actually being still.
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thorsenmark · 5 years
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I Saw Water Fall from the Sky as Rain One Day in Ohio (Cuyahoga Valley National Park)
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I Saw Water Fall from the Sky as Rain One Day in Ohio (Cuyahoga Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I Saw Water Fall from the Sky as Rain One Day in Ohio A few drops fell upon my face and dampened my clothes Other drops fell on the grass to add water for nourishment It was only later when I walked to Blue Hen Falls That I met the other drops as the fell over the edge with a waterfall And crashed on the rocks below in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Another work of short poetry or prose to complement the image captured one mooning in Cuyahoga Valley National Park at Blue Hen Falls. With the rains that I'd seen on my drive from Kentucky and Mammoth Cave National Park, I'd wondered if I'd have good weather to enjoy for hiking. Little did I appreciate that this rain would bring waters that would allow me to capture a long exposure image of this famous waterfall. For the image captured, I was then able to work with control points and color control points in Capture NX2 to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted. I finished up post-processing work in Capture NX2 by adding a few CEP filters (Low Key and Darken/Lighten Center) for the final image.
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thorsenmark · 4 years
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My Beloved Forest That I'm Blessed to Walk Amongst (Cuyahoga Valley National Park)
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My Beloved Forest That I'm Blessed to Walk Amongst (Cuyahoga Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to a section of forests that was all around me while walking the Oak Hill Trail in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. While looking in any directions could have worked to express the thought I had of forest and trees, I chose this as it just seemed to have that look of tree after tree with greens and yellows that had that showed the "wildness" of nature that anyone who has visited the national Park or forest can really appreciate. I did some post-processing work in Capture NX2 with control points and color control points to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted. I later added a Foliage and Sunshine CEP filter to give that little bit extra for the final image.
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thorsenmark · 4 years
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I Feel Pretty, I Feel Pretty!
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I Feel Pretty, I Feel Pretty! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: With the extra daylight time I had before my flight, I used that time to spend with my adopted golden retriever, Charlie, even enjoying a nice neighborhood walk. Here he seemed to pose for me as if giving me a few moments of him actually being still.
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thorsenmark · 5 years
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I Found So Many Pleasures to Give Life in the Forest and Woods (Cuyahoga Valley National Park)
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I Found So Many Pleasures to Give Life in the Forest and Woods (Cuyahoga Valley National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: An image captured while walking through the woods along the trail just beyond the main overlook to Brandywine Falls. I decided to use this small clearing through the trees and use that to frame the image of the waterfall to my front. I set up my tripod and used a CamRanger hooked into my iPhone in order to get the right shutter speed and the exposure that I wanted. I could then verify with it by looking at the screen on my iPhone. After some initial work with Aurora HDR Pro and the export a TIFF image to Capture NX2. I then used some control points and color control points to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image here.
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thorsenmark · 5 years
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Somewhere Amongst the Green Foliage of a Forest of Trees (Mammoth Cave National Park)
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Somewhere Amongst the Green Foliage of a Forest of Trees (Mammoth Cave National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the northeast while walking along the Cedar Sink Trail. Because of the trees and other plant life growth, the depression in the land with the sinkhole is not that apparent.
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thorsenmark · 5 years
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The Excitement Was Definitely Present as I Saw Views of Another National Park to Visit... (Gateway Arch National Park)
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The Excitement Was Definitely Present as I Saw Views of Another National Park to Visit... (Gateway Arch National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: America's Newest One! That's the feeling I had as I stood in the parking garage of the Hampton Inn St. Louis-Downtown (At the Gateway Arch). In fact, I'd only seen news about it becoming a national park a few months prior reading a Twitter post from another photographer. So while mulling over travel plans the past summer, I thought about including this into a larger trip with Mammoth Cave and Cuyahoga Valley National Parks...and so began the genesis of a trip!
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