Picture of the Day

**Supermoon** · 08-07-2015, 11:44 PM

Caught this as we were boarding our houseboat tonight. Pretty sweet storm rolled through.

Lake Powell, UT by Phil Herbert, on Flickr

**Plainview** · 08-08-2015, 06:56 PM

These look great in Lightroom but way over-sharpened by the time they make it to Flickr. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Export options in Lightroom are no resizing (full resolution) and no sharpening (it's worse with any sharpening turned on) and they look over-sharpened as soon as they're exported. Uploading to Flickr (which must do some of it's own sharpening) makes them look even worse...

**From_the_NEK** · 08-11-2015, 12:26 PM

Sebago Lake in Maine last week. Pretty good weather most of the time.

I slept through the best sunrise of the week

**BaNosser** · 08-11-2015, 04:43 PM

from the top of Mt Erie

**Plainview** · 08-11-2015, 09:48 PM

A herd of goats invaded our campsite

**splitter** · 08-12-2015, 02:00 PM

**Plainview** · 08-13-2015, 09:19 AM

Really nice Splitter! Is that in the Sierras?

**LightRanger** · 08-13-2015, 10:41 AM

^^^ http://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=37.08...208&z=15&b=eus

**splitter** · 08-13-2015, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by Plainview

Really nice Splitter! Is that in the Sierras?

Originally Posted by LightRanger

^^^ http://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=37.08...208&z=15&b=eus

Thanks! LightRanger nailed it. The lake marked 11,523 is Barrett Lake; that's the one in the photo. I was standing near the small tarn directly above the 2. I kept waiting for the clouds to lift more as the area to the right background has some really dramatic lines as well but it never lifted.

**LightRanger** · 08-13-2015, 09:34 PM

Crowded in there or no?

**splitter** · 08-14-2015, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by LightRanger

Crowded in there or no?

We saw two other groups climbing while we were out there with one coming in the night before we left. I was on a trip with my F-I-L and his friend. My FIL had 3 peaks left to finish his California 14-er goal, his buddy has 5, and they were using me as a rope gun for this trip. We had planned to climb North Pal/Polemonium and then link up T-Bolt/Starlight. We tagged North Pal but bailed on Polemonium as it was a blizzard when we finished up North Pal so we rapped/descended North Pal after a long day anyway. We moved camp to the spot where I shot that Barrett Lake photo from to access T-Bolt. My FIL was feeling pretty crummy after North Pal (he's 70) so he went to bed in the tent for the afternoon. During the afternoon we saw massive rockfall, twice, coming out the couloir we planned to climb. Luckily he decided he couldn't climb T-Bolt the next day as I would have had to pull the plug on the trip up his last two peaks. The rockfall made me nervous as I knew conditions in the couloir were probably similar to the super-saturated dirt we were dealing with in North Pal.

Below the western U-Notch. My 70 FIL on the right…

**LightRanger** · 08-14-2015, 08:43 AM

Nice work. Not being in a shooting gallery during weather = wise.

**Plainview** · 08-15-2015, 11:28 AM

A few more goats:

sb · 08-16-2015, 05:18 AM

Chad Harvey credit off FB

Just had to share.

**Supermoon** · 08-16-2015, 10:34 AM

Just got back from a week on the lake.

Stormy weather all day let up just enough for a sunset double rainbow:

Lake Powell, UT by Phil Herbert, on Flickr

Lake Powell, UT by Phil Herbert, on Flickr

Didn't take the big camera with me on the boat when it looked rainy, since I didn't have a way to keep it dry, but I snapped this one with my phone

**splitter** · 08-16-2015, 11:53 PM

**Supermoon** · 08-18-2015, 02:53 PM

Portland, OR by Phil Herbert, on Flickr

**Plainview** · 08-18-2015, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by splitter

Hey splitter - how do you get that hazy effect at the left edge of this pic? I know what's causing it - the sun shining into the front element but any time I've taken a pic at that angle I just get ghosting or flare...???

**smmokan** · 08-19-2015, 08:11 AM

Plainview, you may just need to get a lens that handles flare better. You can tell in his picture the sun is quite a ways out of the shot, so flare shouldn't necessarily be an issue.

**The AD** · 08-19-2015, 09:25 AM

A lens hood could help, too.

**Plainview** · 08-19-2015, 10:41 PM

Possibly, but I'm not sure how. The effect seen in that pic is caused by sunlight shining on the front element. A lens hood prevents that to a degree, you have to be aimed more directly at the sun to get any light on the front element with a hood on, and that would seem to only exacerbate the flaring.

It could just be that my lens isn't all that great at handling that kind of situation.