by Caryn Esplin | Jan 28, 2012 | Blog, Design
The next time you are in Las Vegas, check out the chocolate treats at the Aria chocolatier – Jean Phillippe. It is a feast for your eyes and I could not help but take some time to photograph the beautiful edible art. I took these shots in early December while...
by Caryn Esplin | Jan 27, 2012 | Blog, Things
If you drive around the back roads in Southeast Idaho you will find a plethora of old iconic trucks and tractors. Now abandoned, but once well-used on a farm near Squirrel, Idaho, to spread cow manure on already fertile potato fields, this old manure spreader...
by Caryn Esplin | Jan 26, 2012 | Blog, Places
This time I thought I would try a black and white light painting for something a little different from my other images of this scene from the Main Street of Quartzsite,...
by Caryn Esplin | Jan 26, 2012 | Blog, HDR
Inspired by Shawn Hepworth: HDR + Light Painting! With this shot, I merged three different exposures of the same scene, just after sunrise. This time though, I did not use the traditional bracketed three exposures +2, 0 and -2. What makes it unique is the light I...
by Caryn Esplin | Jan 24, 2012 | Best, Blog, Gallery, HDR, Places
Interesting image, but three-level editing cleans and transforms it into art. I often watched my sister, a professional watercolor artist, paint on location. She carefully created a masterpiece from a scene that was often imperfect in real life. For example, in this...