Skip Kuebel Photography

I hiked out to Muir Beach one afternoon and saw this great view of the trees on the hill, the rocks in the foreground and the ocean slashing up on the beach. So, I worked my way around the rocks and was doing the photographer thing, you know, getting the best angle for the shot, focus etc. Little did I know that on the other side of these rocks is a nude beach. Felt a little creepy, with the camera and all, so I didn't stay long! LOL. I added in the sun and sky in post-processing and using NIK filters to bring in the orange/reds from the sunset into the rocks and ocean. Is it cheating to do this? What you think? See more at: https://www.flickr.com/x/t/0092009/photos/97777205@N03/19807160652/ Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net

Another shot from my walk-about in San Francisco. The Palace of Fine Arts is always a great target for photographers and I'm no different. It has it's challenges to shoot, as it's quite tall and it's hard to get into a good composition. This is shot from the Rotunda, looking out towards the columns that surround it. I had to use a couple of filters to straighten out the columns in the foreground and then my favorite Nik software filters. Oh, the sky was added in after the fact. You can see more of this shoot at my Flickr. Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net

Painted Bungalows , a photo by skip.kuebel on Flickr. Sunset on the beach in Capitola, California with brightly painted beach bungalows in the foreground. I've been in a tilt-shift mode lately and here is another example. It makes the highlighted buildings look like miniature models like you would see on a model train set-up. Visit my Flickr site to see these images at full size. Happy New Years! Skip Kuebel, Photographer skiptown@comcast.net