phil barnes photography

This is the surfboard fence.  Not just a surfboard fence, but  a surfboard fence composed of a ridiculously excessive number of discarded surfboards.  Find out more about it at www.surfboardfence.com.  Possibly of interest to the photoshop geeks, while editing this photo I discovered a nice technique for inserting a blue sky while preserving the details in the palm leaves.  Look for a discussion of how I did that eventually on the Technique page.  I’ll be posting a few more images of the surfboard fence in the Maui Photo gallery being populated.

This a photo taken from Point Woronzoff at sunset looking out onto an ice fog shrouded Cook Inlet.  I managed also to snap a few more shots near Lake Hood of this spectacular sunset.

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I have posted a few of the photos I made this summer while doing field work at Point Lonely, Alaska.  Point Lonely is one of the now abandoned cold war era long range radar sites for spotting incoming Soviet nukes. Now, most these site sit abandoned and await cleanup and demolition by the Air Force.  Point Lonely is visually compelling.  The old military hardware, radar dishes and the radar dome rusting and dormant on the remote tundra calls to mind both the nearly forgotten cold war era and images of the megalithic statues of Easter Islan.  I was glad that I had an opportunity to go to this amazing place.  Enjoy the photos and I hope to post more this week along with another gallery of black and white nature photography. Thanks!

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