Archive for January, 2006

The Dgrin Challenges

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Quite possibly the best photos on smugmug can be found in the Dgrin challenges gallery.
The Dgrin challenges are done every 2 weeks on the Dgrin forums, and do have prizes associated with winning (besides the bragging rights). For more information, click here.
And now for a taste of the winners:

Along the Sound

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Andy Williams is our House Pro, and he also happens to be one of the best photographers I have ever seen. But don’t take my (biased) word for it, check out this gallery.
(as always, click the image to see that particular image in the gallery)

wow.

Nature shots

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

I stumbled across these gorgeous nature shots and thought I would share. They come from the galleries of Erich Hernandez-Baquero and apparently come from East Boulder Community Park.
Enjoy!

BASE jumping

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Ummm…. wow. So I have been rather captivated by the idea of base jumping. I have gone skydiving, and bungee jumped off of the Verzasca Dam in Switzerland (the same one James Bond jumped off of). But that is just so unbelievably sissy compared to someone BASE jumping off of anything… especially Angel [...]

Adobe Lightroom

Monday, January 9th, 2006

Andy wrote up a review of Adobe’s brand new photography workflow software. This program is really cool, so all you photographers should check it out.
Read it here.

Big Waves at Teahupoo

Friday, January 6th, 2006

I showed you John Rowe’s japan gallery a few days ago, but I recently stumbled across his awesome surfing gallery. Take a look at the really beautiful photos, you won’t regret it.
His site also has some other really amazing galleries. Some examples:
Deserts and Mountains
Roses
Enjoy!

San Anselmo Flood

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

It has been really raining around here in the SF Bay Area, and a lot of areas north of the bay are flooding pretty badly I hear. I did some searching and found some pictures of San Anselmo flooding.
Check this gallery out.
Some of the more dramatic pictures:
Wells Fargo branch
Extreme flooding

Japan

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Time for some more travel galleries. I really want to take a trip to Japan (are you seeing a trend yet? Anywhere I haven’t been… I really want to go. ), so I was browsing Japan galleries on the site. I found this really cool one.
The images are protected, but here are [...]