Another picture from December of the Made in Oregon sign on a snowy night, taken from the Burnside Bridge. There is no traffic in this one so I lightened the bottom of the image to highlight the snow and pedestrians with a graduated filter in Adobe Camera Raw, one of the neat new features in the latest version of Photoshop.

I played around with these filters while evaluating the software, you can see the difference by comparing this year’s whiteboard art with last year’s, the lighting was the same in both shots but I compensated for the light dropoff on the left side in this year’s picture with the graduated filter.

I’ll go back and update the older whiteboard pictures at some point, but, ah, let’s just say it isn’t a high priority.

This picture turned out to be one of my favorites from that day, and I would have never gotten it if the MAX line hadn’t been so terribly delayed that I decided to hoof it home. Silver linings and all that.

A view over I-5 from the Burnside Bridge. Not too sharp as it was handheld and I wanted a long exposure to turn the car lights into long streaks. Normally I would have braced the camera on the edge of the bridge, but there was a lot of snow both on the bridge and on the railing, and since I’m scared of heights as it is, I played it safe. Besides I had originally promised my wife I’d be home before dark, but with the MAX line down I was hoofing it and running behind.

This section of the interstate seemed pretty clear but that wasn’t true for many other areas, and the side streets were a mess. Not a bad day to be walking all things considered and I was having a lot of fun taking pictures on the walk home.