I love to photograph bad weather when it is breaking up. Great things happen when storms start to dissipate, especially at sunrise or sunset. This image was taken in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina, part of the Patagonia region. My workshop group and I hiked into the backcountry, and several hours before dawn rose from our tents to ascend over 1200 feet to Laguna de Los Tres, perched high [...]
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Often I find myself in a situation where composition and mood come together nicely, but there just isn’t much color in the scene. Black & white conversion is the perfect solution to the problem. Black & white images work particularly well for landscape scenes that have lots of dramatic clouds. Such a situation arose recently while leading my Epic Patagonia workshop. My group and I hiked from our backcountry camp to [...]
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My latest post to the Outdoor Photographer blog discusses the importance of creating a Sense of Place within your photos, of telling a story unique to the land you are photographing. The following image is featured in the post, taken during my recent Patagonia trip. The image, of Monte Fitz Roy partially obscured by a raging storm, was made during a three-day backcountry excursion with my workshop group. When we got [...]
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Laguna Torre is a glacier-fed lake that lies below Cerro Torre, one of the most beautiful icons of Patagonia. “Cerro” means hill in Spanish, a word that does not quite do justice to this dramatic pointy granite spire. Rising 10,262 feet above sea level, this colossus of rock and ice rebuffed climbers until 1974 when an Italian expedition made the first undisputed ascent, 21 years after the conquest of Everest. All [...]
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I’ve got an upcoming article in the February issue of Popular Photography magazine on Patagonia. I made my first visit to Patagonia in March 2010, and I will be returning in March 2011 to lead a photo workshop. By the way, we still have a few spaces left, so sign up now! Patagonia is an epic place, a land of forbidding mountains and more glaciers than you can shake a [...]
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Check out my latest Photo Journal entry to read about my recent adventures in Patagonia! The first part of a three-part series is now available, describing my 2-week backcountry trip in Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina. Feel free to leave any comments about the article here.
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