Where were they taken?

First two are on the Tacoma waterfront (near the Narrows Bridge).

The last one is Rimrock Lake, WA....near Yakima.

Cool. I hope you were not looking at the sun through the viewfinder, that can really fuck up your eyes

Cool pictures though.

Stone in Calgary....

Ed in Vancouver....

these pictures are very cool. that very... basic "setting" of the 1st three creates a great atmosphere for a vey cool moment you captured

Do you have a larger version of this one? I love it, but I think at a great resolution you'd have a really awesome picture

I have the original file somewhere.

The lights are spectacular. What kinda camera do you use?

i love the light flares in the stone picture.

PJ @ The Gorge, George, WA

a super cheap...old...'crappy'....Sony P31.

It takes amazing pics! I want to upgrade....want higher res.....but I'm afraid that I'd just go back to using this camera.

Edit: well, for being "crappy" it gets some nice effects.

Doesn't seem to be crappy to me!

I'm going to try to be courteously critical of these shots.
The subject in all of them is just a blinding sun.


In this image, there's a very very busy foreground that isn't visually appealing. In the background is a potentially lovely water and landscape, but we see almost no color either natural or sunset-bathed because the sun is glaring and obscuring half of the photo. I have no doubt this is what it looked like when you were there, but it's a tough picture to look at because there's nothing interesting to look at, other than a huge sun that hurts my eyes


This one is better, but has the same problems as the first. The colors are just totally void IMO. There's a potentially beautiful sky, but the angle is focused more on the water, which is potentially beautiful as well...but not enough focus on that area either. The wooden pilings are an interesting subject, but, they're not the focus either. It's like you have a countertop of great ingredients that were just tossed into a pan, but nothing was enhanced by anything else. It was all dumped into the pot at the same time. I think if you focused more on any of these subjects and used the sun as less of a subject and more of a lighting aid (side angle perhaps), it would have been a knockout.





Probably the most potential of them all, but it's all obscured again by the sun. There's no color drawing your eyes away from this huge flash in your face.
I'd suggest turning away from the sun, rather than taking photos directly into it. It makes your colors go all-a-screwy.

Spectacular!

now some B&W

Amazing! I love how the light shines in them ^_^