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here are a few select, the rest are in the link above.

 

Those ones of the trees are awesome! The one of the smoke reminds me of when I went to the Blackhills several years ago, and there was a huge fire about two miles away from Mt. Rushmore. That was a very exciting yet scary experience. Great Pics!

 

Great pics man, I am assuming wildfire is the cause of the smoke.

 

I think it was arson

 

Sad.

Im just glad I dont have to deal with wildfires like that much in this area. Thats pretty intense.

 

This is my favorite. I like how the tree is casting its shadow on the grass, and how your exposure is perfect--which makes the tree bark black so you can clearly see all of the tree branches even through the leaves. Excellent job. Did you take this close to the Santa Clarita Valley?

That fire was started by two teenagers. It was right near the WB studios. I was in the area on Ventura Blvd having lunch, it was crazy. For a little while I thought the Hollywood sign was going to be history.

Here are some of my favorites: I like storm pictures and landscapes (mountians / lakes). Don't have to many tree pictures because those are hard to get right---don't have the skill for that. Once again great job!

 

I'm not sure where that is (I haven't been here in California for very long) This particular trail starts at Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes, that's in Malibu I think.

These were all taken with my little Fuji Finepix For exposures, I just let it auto-expose, however for most of these shots I did auto-expose (1/2 click shutter) a bit higher up on the sky then recompose down and full click the shutter to how I wanted the shot framed, That's how i expose with this little guy, it's manual and semi-manual controls are just to hard to use, going through menus and things.

 

Ok, I know exactly where that is.

As far as the exposure, that is exactly what I used to do---meter the brightest part (usually the sky) then hold the button so it doesn't re-meter, then bring the camera down to how you want to frame the picture.