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Life is Beautiful
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… especially with you in it with me!

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42 shots later, I have one image.

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Why so many? … you may ask … (thinking, of course, to yourself that this Robin is few pistons shy of a running engine.)
I'm trying to fight noise you see.
So, for this panoramic stitch of six aspects (three on the bottom row three for the top), I shot 7 each and stacked them in layers to lessen the noise pattern on any given one.
It's always a battle with my little cam … but sometimes I get to win the round.


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#BreakfastClub with huge thanks to dear Gemma Costa
#SacredSunday with thanks to SacredSunday™ , Manfred Berndtgen , Robyn Morrison ,  Chatchai Rombix , Justin Hill ,  Steve Barge , Carolyn St.Charles , Sherrie von Sternberg
#ZenSunday  with thanks to Charlotte Therese Björnström , Simon Kitcher and Nathan Wirth
#SkySunday with thanks to Randy Scherkenbach and +Patrick Scherkenbach
#LandscapePhotography with thanks to Margaret Tompkins, Carra Riley, paul t beard, Ke Zeng, David Heath Williams and Landscape Photography

#rgwoodpost #naturephotography #creative #inspiration
#sunsetphotography #skyphotography #digitalphotography #surrealart  
#digitalart #fineart

Comments

  1. Nice one Robin Griggs Wood! Dig the rays and the clouds!

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  2. Robin Griggs Wood I love your sunset and landscape images Robin. They are so beautiful. Thank yet again for sharing with SacredSunday™

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  3. Oh my, that's hard work...but the result is so beautiful!

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  4. This is amazing! Even more so when you share what you went through to get the shot you wanted.

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  5. You are the best for telling us the details!
    You achieved a masterpiece!
    The work you put into each artistic photo or painting shows in the end and it is like a giant smile coming across the screen.
    The feel is incredible I just want to soak it up!

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  6. where do you hide all these skies?
    Wonderful capture
    thanks for sharing with Breakfast Club

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  7. Beautiful!!  I love that gorgeous sky!!  Thanks very much for sharing with the #LandscapePhotography theme!!

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  8. the last sun's rays are calling "red sun's rays", did you know ?

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  9. Very very beautiful!!!  Great work Robin Griggs Wood!

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  10. You certainly won the round here Robin Griggs Wood This is magnificent!

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  11. Very nice capture of the sky :o) Robin Griggs Wood its like a stage design.

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  12. absolutely stunning work Robin Griggs Wood ! this is definitely my pick of the day, awesome!!!! everything about it is brilliant!

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  13. Spectacular result for some very skilled work, Robin Griggs Wood

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  14. Beautiful shot. Your perseverance paid off big time

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  15. WOW!   this awesome photo just mad me add you! :)  VERY beautiful!

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  16. Glorious sunset Robin Griggs Wood . Well worth all the hard work.

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  17. Very lovely ... might I suggest, all joking aside, that as you fight the noise that you also embrace some of it and see how it might add to your overall vision.

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  18. Robin, this is absolutely fantastic. I'm curious, though, you really couldn't get this same effect just editing one raw image? I'm asking because I've shot similar sunsets and I did them in one exposure just tweaking highlights, shadows, maybe temperature if the white balance gave me flat colors, etc. Are you saying that by doing it that way you'd end up with a too noisy image?

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  19. Justin Hill -- thank you so much, my friend! ... :o)

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  20. Charlotte Therese Björnström -- thank you so much, dear!

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  21. Chris Smith -- thank you, my friend! ... :o)

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  22. Brian Scott -- nice comment ... thank you!

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  23. Cheryl Cooper -- thank you, thank you for such a great comment, dear!!

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  24. Gemma Costa -- heehee ... :o). Whenever we see clouds in the sky during the day, we head up to the hills for the evening ... :o). Thank you dear!

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  25. Margaret Tompkins -- thank you so much, dear!

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  26. Stuart O'Neill -- not enough? ... ;oD. Thank you!

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  27. Michael Stuart -- thank you, my friend!!!

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  28. Sonja Miller Williams -- thank you, dear!

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  29. Sassi Sassmannshausen -- thank you, my dear ... :o)*

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  30. Aidan Kalloo -- thank you for the kind words!!

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  31. martin shervington -- thank you, my friend!

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  32. Mark Tyler -- thank you, my friend ... :o)

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  33. Christopher Germano -- thank you so much, my friend ... :o)

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  34. dizzy blond -- well, thank you for that! :o)

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  35. Allen Corlett -- thank you so much ... :o)

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  36. Nathan Wirth -- I have done that as well. This one I was definitely going for a clean result, but I think some noise looks very nice on certain images. Thank you, my friend.

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  37. Stunning shot as usual!!   I'm loving everything about this !   :)

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  38. E.E. Giorgi -- what cam are you shooting with? I shoot with only a Canon G12 and dedicated lens, so I am limited as to what I can get in-camera and need to process like heck to make anything worth sharing. Thank you for your kind words, dear!

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  39. stunning shot Robin Griggs Wood manually stacked? or auto?

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  40. John Dusseault -- thank you, my friend. I am not exactly sure which program you are referring to when you are thinking of "auto", but I stacked these in Photoshop CS5 via a script. I hope that is sufficient info ... :o)

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  41. CS5 "script" sounds like auto to me Robin Griggs Wood thanks!

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  42. Great shot, you won the battle on this one!  Thanks for sharing for #SkySunday

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  43. The Los Angeles Lakers colors in the sky. Not a fan, just a reference.

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  44. 42 seems like the perfect number to me :)

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  45. Wow! I'd say you got a huge win! Now I'm wondering how you got all 42 images taken so quickly so as to not fight moving clouds. Amazing shot!

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  46. Life is beautiful! This is an amazing picture. Looking at it makes me happy to be alive. Thank You for sharing.

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  47. Glad to see this on "what's hot" where it belongs :)

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  48. Inspirational...!!!   I've recently moved to a rural area and was thinking there was not much to capture photographically but you work seems to have inspired me...!!!

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  49. You said "Life is Beautiful," I immediately started whistling.  
    "You get it, right Zach?"

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  50. Gorgeous shot, Robin.  Such clear, powerful rays!!

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  51. Annette Junge Daugaard -- :o) (Thank you always ... :o))

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  52. Randy Scherkenbach -- thank you, my friend!

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  53. Javier Gutierrez -- haha! ... that sounds like a Mark Esguerra comment ... ;oD

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  54. Craig Szymanski -- oh man, did I just uncover the actual answer to Life, the Universe and Everything?!!!! ... ;oD

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  55. George Fletcher -- I did have to do a bit of tweaking in post .. ;o). Thank you for the kind words!

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  56. Konjit Alemu -- what a nice comment ... thank you ... :o)

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  57. Jose' Yanez -- how nice of you to say! Thank you! All the best to you and your shooting!

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  58. Baldur McQueen -- thank you so much, my friend!!

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  59. I love the message from the post and the example of persistence to achieve what you want, in this case to take one of the most beautiful shots of the sunset/sunrise i have seen.

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  60. Holy cow this is amazing Robin Griggs Wood! Great omen for the upcoming Laker season. Ha ha. ;-P

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  61. Robin Griggs Wood - I'd say the picture is the question ;-)

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  62. A beautiful shot nonetheless. It goes to show that if we take out all the technical details, life can be simply beautiful.

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  63. This is a composite? It's very good.

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  64. Edwin Avila -- what a kind comment .. thank you so much.

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  65. Mark Esguerra -- wouldn't that be good! ;oD ... thanks, my friend!

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  66. Mohammed Noor Abdullah -- yes indeed ... and thank you ... :o)

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  67. Indeed Robin Griggs Wood This is truly magical Robin!

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  68. Kimbely Miller Gambrell -- thank you.
    hisa hisa -- thank you
    Subra Govinda -- thank you, my friend!
    Ada M -- thank you so much!
    Karishma Keerthi -- thank you.

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  69. All that's missing is a choir of heavenly voices. An exceptional shot, Lady!

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  70. I hear my wall just begging for this to be on it!!! So beautiful!!! :-)

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  71. Jeremy Vellalos -- thank you
    Suleiman Yahuza -- thank you
    Gregory Martin Key -- actually, this is not HDR at all, it is basically only one exposure level used in all 42 images. However, bringing them together did allow me to pull a bit on the exposure values in post-processing. Thank you for the kind words ... :o)
    Dane Clingan -- thank you, my friend!
    Manfred Berndtgen -- thank you, my friend!
    Pam Wolfe -- thank you so much, dear!

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  72. Absolutely killer shot, Robin; perfectly processed.  Congrats on making PhotoExtract; it's well-deserved!

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  73. Michael Stuart -- you're such a good friend ... thank you!
    Garry McCarthy -- thank you so much, too, my friend! ... it was a killer processing job ... ;oD

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  74. I check there all the time as a source for new amazing photographers to follow.  Did you know?  :)

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  75. I agree, Michael Stuart ... I've added many from there. It's a great resource!

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