HDR

My knucklehead brother has been ranting and raving about a 'new' photo technique called HDR (high dynamic range imaging).  Basically, take a couple photos of the same subject but at different exposures... then smash them all together in Photoshop, and adjust until you have the perfectly exposed (or abstractly exposed) image.  Its kind of like cheating in my old school photography mind but you can get some cool effects. 

So I tried it for myself.  And here's what we get:

This is one of my favorites... piles of junk around my dad's shop:

Please note:  All this junk will SOMEDAY go to very good use... you never know when you'll need a bent bike tire or a spare strip of chain-link fence!