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:

Estes Park Bluff

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:

Estes Park Mount

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!