Sunrise at Orlando Wetlands Park

Orlando Wetlands Park

I'm often struck by how beautiful nature is, but lately I've only carried with me my telephoto lens for bird photography.  So even when I see wonderful scenery, I can't do much with it photographically.  I decided recently that this has to change; I need to bring with me wider lenses so that I can try to do justice to places I visit beyond the birds that inhabit them.  I've also decided I need to get back into HDR photography.  For those of you who don't know, HDR stands for high dynamic range.  You take several photographs of high contrast scenes at a wide range of exposures, and then HDR software combines them together to bring out detail in the highlights and shadows.  Some HDR photographs are designed to look natural; others look rather surreal.  With these photos from Orlando Wetlands Park, I opted for a more realistic approach, but of course the colors are a fair amount more saturated and vivid than they were to my color blind eyes when I was there.

Orlando Wetlands Park
Another version of the basically same composition

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