Magical San Gabriel Mountains this morning

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...and what they really looked like.

Grabbed with the iPhone while on an errand and post-processed.

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Less magical, more artsy.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

That very magical first image is fantastic. The others are nice, but that is just so in-your-face, unapologetically magical. I love it!

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Thanks Eric, I was quite surprised to see how this turned out!

This is actually a zoomed-in iPhone capture sequence, panorama'd together in Photoshop and finished in Topaz Gigapixel and Studio 2. Because I was just outside briefly to meet a colleague and wasn't expecting a photo opportunity...

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

That gives further support for the saying that the best camera is the one you have with you!

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And it's always the wrong one, ha!

Even worse are those "memory" photos from when you had NOTHING...