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By     |    Feb 11, 2011
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Eye of the Storm, Vermilion Cliffs

I like creating “concept” images, which attempt to transform a scene into something that evokes a mood, emotion, or theme. The struggle with such images is to try and convey a concept that is recognizable to one’s audience, and that ties in with an appropriate name. Although I personally long for simpler times when great photographs had merely descriptive names like “Pepper No. 30,” people these days seem to like theme pieces with fancy monikers [...]

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By     |    Oct 15, 2010
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Use weather for creative effect

Photography, at its essence, is a capture media—the photographer reacts to conditions and elements around them, plucking out a decisive moment of time from the living world. For nature photographers, weather can be critically important to the creative process. Interesting weather patterns and events can create pleasing compositional convergences and decisive moments worthy of capture. The importance of weather to creative nature photography is a persistent theme of my eBooks, photo tips articles, and blog [...]

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