Epilogue

In case anyone is interested here are some technical details. I took all the photos with a Canon 10D. Some of the shots I took with a Lensbaby lens (the original one.) Here's their website if you're interested. The rest of the shots I used my trusty Tamron 24-135 lens. It's getting a little old, but it's still a great lens for the money.

All but the sunset photo I took as jpeg files. I used RAW for the sunset. I wanted to be able to edit the photos faster, so that's the reason for not using RAW for all the pictures (which is what I usually do.) I didn't do a huge amount of post-processing. Mostly some contrast and color saturation adjustments. I did that with a curves adjustment in LAB mode. That's by far the fastest and easiest way to do that. Some of the files I tried some different sharpening techniques (the bridge and some of the Columbia center shots for example.) Oh yeah, I used my small hiking tripod to take the waterfall pictures. I used a polarizing filter on those, but not any of the others.