Spray Falls in Mt. Rainier National Park is located on the popular trail to Spray Park, a high alpine meadow filled with ponds and wildflowers. I made two visits to Spray Falls during my recent Mt. Rainier trip, once on a sunny day on my way up to Spray Park, and once on a rainy day a few days later (Spray Park turned out to be past peak for wildflowers but at [...]
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My newest eBook, Five Landscape Challenges, is now available! Five Landscape Challenges is the first in a new series. Each book in the series focuses on five different common landscape scenes, providing detailed “recipes” showing you how to get each shot right, every time, discussing the best equipment, light, and compositions. This first book focuses on the following five scenes: Slot Canyons Spring Waterfalls Sand Dunes Woodland Flowers Geothermal Wonders Five Landscape Challenges is a downloadable PDF [...]
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Here’s the latest image in my Mt. Rainier series, a photo I took after about a week in the park. Although I got lucky a few mornings with interesting light, I had a long stretch in the middle of my trip when high pressure, blue sky weather moved in, severely curtailing my photographic opportunities. While most people think of sunny days as being great for nature photography, I argue the opposite. [...]
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Here’s the latest in my Mt. Rainier series. I made this image after scaling Pyramid Peak in the dark for a planned sunrise shoot of Mt. Rainier. I was hoping to catch glorious sunrise light on the great mountain from the rocky crags of Pyramid, but unfortunately, when I got to the top after an hour of hiking, I found the view north towards Rainier to be somewhat unremarkable—no clouds or anything [...]
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The third image from my Mt. Rainier series travels to Comet Falls, which plummets 400 feet over a series of drops, including a dizzying free-fall plunge of 320 feet at the top. This popular waterfall is on the trail to Van Trump Park, which is a beautiful high altitude alpine meadow with great views of Mt. Rainier and a carpet of wildflowers in the summer. There are a lot of compositional opportunities [...]
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I’m finally back from two weeks of shooting Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington, with a brief side-trip down to Oregon to photograph the Columbia River Gorge. My previous post from Mt. Rainier, as you may recall, squarely fell into the “nothing special” category, as I didn’t dare process any of my good images on my uncalibrated netbook computer. Now that I’m back home, I have begun to process my images on [...]
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