My intentions of keeping this phlog updated more often are killed off by time shooting and processing or sleep... Yeah its sleep, I like sleep.

So 700 some miles of driving over 2 weekends with hopes of updating the portfolios autumn selection left me with probably more disappointment than anything. The tree line I was planning a super pano on wasn’t there; the peak color wasn’t really peak; didn’t bring the telescope on what I thought was going to be a day trip with cloudy skies, that of course cleared up... Then to salt the wound a little, later figured out the telescopes tracking is jacked by bad gears so my attempt to start prep for deep sky astro is delayed. Nevertheless, I did get some keepers - autumn, night, pano & astro. Here's some of the processing that's been happening recently. Hardest part is deciding if I want to share any on IG or 500, as I can't decide what I should share.

Though I don't care for all the extra photos in my library, I've enjoyed what I've found when bracketing - some of these overexposed images make for a different take on processing. Here some sumac is being cleaned up (get flippin hand cramps doing this) keeping the background blurred while the leaves keep their clarity

oh and then there's this beast - HDR pano - 60 some images (after knocking off 14 frames from the HDR process)