Why do I spend the time here?

I guess it is to share my images with you (whoever you are!) in a more personal way. I create every week. Most photos end up in some commercial application, uncredited. - sent off to the great media ocean like so many unnamed sailboats. Yes, it is how I make a living, and I am very grateful for that, but the rapidly devaluing dollar is not why I chased this dream. If it was about the money, I would have stayed in NYC on the treadmill of Banking & Finance. Maybe I would be getting some of your tax bailout money!

The fact  is: I love the satisfaction of making a truly engaging image. Some are deeply intimate portraits with loads of human emotion. Yet images like this one are sometimes just as fulfilling. This image is from the top floor (#4!!! Hah! I had garbage piles taller than that in Brooklyn!) of a new office building in South Portland, Maine. The real estate firm (Ingallscommercial.com if you need new space!) wanted to highlight the expansive views from the space.

Anyway… I like what I created… a total of 15 frames were used to make this. The high rez is about 28” wide @ 300ppi. The interior was composited using HDR (Nod to Mark F) five exposures each of three views. Window view is straight, and then the files combined in photomerge.

I also threw in an exterior view of the building for reference.