Ipad and Android Wallpapers Now Available!

To kick off the new year, I  have decided to start sharing some of my photography as free iPad and Android wallpapers.
Today, I offer my first 3 free downloadable wallpapers at my website which are made to fit your mobile device screen by making two versions (sizes) of each wallpaper available (iPad: 1024 x 1024 px. and Android-device/smartphone: 960 x 854 px.). iPhone wallpapers will be available soon (leave a comment if you would like one NOW). To assure that anyone will be able to enjoy them, I have provided an easy-to-follow instruction on the Download page (left hand side), on how to install and display them correctly on your device. Please send me a quick email if the instructions are faulty.

                                                            

*these thumbnails shows the wallpaper format for Android-devices. Click a thumbnail, or visit my Downloads to see all wallpapers!
All of my wallpapers are Copyright © Seung Kye Lee and must only be used as wallpapers for personal enjoyment on your mobile device.

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Featured Fine Art Print for January: October Frost III

October Frost III
Frosted mountain birches in front of Stygghøin Mountain (1721m./5646ft.) in Dørålen,
NE Rondane National Park, Norway. October 2010.
*click to see it large on the Website home page

On one of my autumn trips to Dørålen in the north-east parts of Rondane National Park in early October last year,
I made a photographic study of the hardy mountain birches near the tree-line. On that particular trip, the fresh snow had just settled on some of the highest peaks; one being nicely framed between the branches in this photograph. I love to photograph mountains right after
the first snow of the year, when the naked mountains stand out by their bright snow-capped peaks, when autumn is kissed by winter.
There is something exciting and refreshing by knowing that soon, everything will be covered in bright, white snow.

The cold temperatures had created a layer of frost on everything around me, especially on the naked birches, which clearly stood out from the blue sky and faded yet golden, late autumn foliage. I`ve always found trees to be a challenging subject and when I woke up to a foggy yet seemingly cloudless sky one morning, I decided to take a closer look at some of the trees that I had noticed earlier, and this was one of the photographs that I made later on that morning. Due to the light and bright subject, it was easy to get a decent exposure.
Canon 5D Mark II with a 17-40mm f/4 L USM-lens (no filters) on a tripod.

Before sunrise, much earlier that same morning, I made a long exposure (15 sec.) at a nearby location, where the trees and sky are separated (contrary to October Frost III) in order to create more of a calm composition that is in harmony with the silence and the mystic dawn light (click here to see the photograph; Awaken). Fortunately, with a fully extended tripod, I was just able to create the composition I needed to make it work.

October Frost III has not been released on the Website until now and have been added to the  Rondane National Park II-gallery!
I accidentally stumbled upon it on one of my external hard-drives a couple of days ago and thought that it deserved to be selected
as the Featured Fine Art Print for January as well. Make sure to see this featured photograph large on the Website home page, and if you missed it, also check out my Favorite Photographs from 2011!

Seung Kye

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Favorite Photographs From 2011

2011 has been a year of discovery for me. Contrary to my Favorite Photographs From 2010, which were dedicated and a celebration
to light and landscapes, this year I went on a journey of imagination, abstraction and composition. This, I first realized quite recently when I selected my favorite photographs from 2011, which eventually became a collection of rather abstract work. And as always, the collection is solely based upon my personal taste. These are my 10 favorite photographs, or Fine Art Prints, from 2011 in no particular order.

Extinct
Water patterns. Flø, western coast of Norway. July 2011.

Merry Christmas!

Winter forest in Akershus, Norway. December 2009.

“Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then,
he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;
he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”
- The Dalai Lama when once asked about what surprised him the most.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and may you have Peace and Happiness in every breath, in every single heartbeat.
May all living beings be free from suffering.
See you soon!

Best Wishes
Seung Kye

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Featured Fine Art Print for December and Lee Filters Video

I recently found this interesting video about the Lee graduated neutral density filters that I use to control exposure in landscape photography. The sky, in most cases, is much brighter than the landscape/subject itself, and as a camera cannot record the same dynamic range as we see with our eyes, I use these filters to control (darken) the brightness of the sky so that I can get an acceptable dynamic range throughout the photograph. Each and every Lee graduated neutral density filter is hand made, and has been since 1978. Here is a video about how they are made. And, they are completely odor-free (Mike Brown is not holding his breath in the video thumbnail)