Emmon’s Preserve is one of my favorite local spots for photography. It is just a stretch of forest along a river where it tumbles down through pools over ledges, but there is always beauty there, in every season. This is one of the pools from yesterday.

The range of light and shadow at Emmon’s almost demands HDR treatment. This is a traditional 3 exposure HDR…well, maybe not totally traditional :). I shot it on my Samsung WB250 Smart Camera, then transferred the 3 images to my Galaxy S4 smartphone where Google+ uploaded them as part of an Auto-Backup. The Auto Awesome engine at Google+ recognized them as 3 sequential exposures differing only in exposure value, and made them, without my intervention, into an HDR. I then opened the image in what used to be the Picnic Photo Editor, and is now part of the Google+ Photos tools, and gave it a little extra boost. So, no, I guess not any kind of traditional HDR…but certainly what HDR is coming to in this age of instant sharing. 🙂