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If you haven’t visited stuckincustoms.com and looked at the beautiful photos taken by Trey Ratcliff, you are missing out. But, not one to be content merely to observe, the “Father of HDR” has inspired me to attempt my own pictures. You have to have some fairly high-end equipment, and specialized software in order to do HDR. Trey explains the process in detail in his HDR Tutorial. However, it essentially involves taking multiple photographs at different exposures and then using software to combine them into one amazing image.

I had the privilege of going to Estes Park a few weeks past, and there I made my first legitimate foray into HDR:

There were a lot of these bluffs around, but I was enamored with this one. I took this shot outside of our cabin sometime in the afternoon.

On the other side of the valley, looking North, I took a few more shots:

On the whole I’m very pleased with these shots. I really wanted to take a picture of the historic Stanley Hotel, but it didn’t work out. Next time!

The Democrat-controlled government led by President Barack Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have been moving aggressively to reform health-care in the United States.  This is a huge issue, health-care accounts for 1/6th of the U.S. economy and it will effect virtually everyone in the country, and many people beyond the borders.

The United States has the best health-care in the world in terms of quality of care.  It’s simply a fact.  Foreign dignitaries and other elite from across the globe come to the U.S. for medical treatment.  Unfortunately, the U.S. health-care system has two major problems:

1) Not everyone is covered

2) It’s expensive

The government, led by our aforementioned rulers, are ostensibly trying to resolve these two issues.  Whether their solutions are good or bad is up for debate.  The Wall Street Journal has an article: “Ten Questions on the Health-care overhaul,” that provides a good base for understanding the issues.