Today’s photograph is a cool pic from Starved Rock State Park in January. I woke up and hiked all over the place at dawn and then headed out again in the afternoon to see Saint Louis Canyon. This is one of the larger canyons in the park and has one of the most spectacular waterfalls...
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You can click now on yesterday’s photograph to follow a link through to the full resolution version of “Ceiling porn.” I hesitated to use that title, but what better one could there be? In any case, what is a website without the word “porn” appearing somewhere? Ha! I’m in the inner harbor of Baltimore and...
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Tags: Chicago, hdr, justin kern, morning, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, Nikon D700, photomatix, silhouette, snow, Starved Rock State Park, Sunrise, winter
// I got a ton of tweets yesterday about the HDR tutorial – which can be found here. I’ll use the wonderful things people had to say about it as motivation to update and improve what I put into the tutorial all those months ago. Follow me @thewindypixel to catch all the updates to this...
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// Chicago experienced one spring day earlier this week and by the end of the week we’re right back in the single digit air temps. That one April day, somehow misplaced in late January, gave me a bit of a wake up call – this winter and its ice-covered opportunity for frigid HDR photography will...
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Tags: dusk, hdr, ice, justin kern, night, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, Nikon D700, photomatix, silhouette, snow, Starved Rock State Park, Sunset, Twilight, winter
// I promised yesterday I’d post the full resolution version of The Alpine – I posted a cool sliver of it yesterday. Click the image below to go to my Flickr page – then you can click the “All Sizes” button above the photograph and then the blue link that says “Original” above the photograph...

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Tags: kern.justin, montana, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, Nikon D700, panorama, photomatix, starved rock, summer, The American West, winter, Wyoming