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Winter Photography: Be Prepared, Be Successful

By Kurt Budliger | Jan 24, 2012
Posted in: Landscape Photography, Tech Tips, Vermont, Winter Photography |

Winter Photography: Be Prepared, Be Successful

Winter is arguably one of the prettiest times to be an outdoor photographer; winter white can transform an otherwise lifeless brown landscape into a magical wonderland. However, winter is also one of the most challenging times to be outdoors shooting. Frankly the biggest limiting factor in winter photography is personal comfort (for me anyway, I’m a wus). If you’re not comfortable you won’t be free to think and see creatively [...]

By Ian Plant | Jan 19, 2012
Posted in: Creativity |

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The Death of Photography

Eastman Kodak Co., which for 130 years has been a pioneer in camera and film technology, which brought the world the handheld camera and inspired a hit song by Paul Simon, has recently filed for bankruptcy protection. Kodak’s current struggles are indelibly linked to the ascendancy of digital cameras and the virtual disappearance of film in the past few years. The popular refrain “mama don’t take my Kodachrome away” is now answered [...]

“…If You Can’t Be With The One You Love,…”

By Kurt Budliger | Jan 12, 2012
Posted in: Creativity, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Vermont |

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“…If You Can’t Be With The One You Love,…”

“…Honey, Love The One You’re With” (Stephen Stills). I’ll leave it up to you guys to do your own dit, dit, dits. And I do apologize in advance if the song gets stuck in your head, it’s pretty catchy. It seems as though I’m into the mantra thing lately (see my previous post Just Do It!), especially if it relates to improving one’s photography. As many of you already know, I [...]

By Kurt Budliger | Jan 5, 2012
Posted in: General, Inspiration, Landscape Photography, Vermont |

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Just Do It!

I don’t have any New Year’s Resolutions or great epiphany to share at the close of 2011 and I’m about to celebrate (if you can call it that) my 42nd birthday on Monday. Don’t worry, I’ll include my shipping address below so you can send gifts. That means I grew up in the ‘80s and am a Gen X’er (whatever the hell that means). I watched Dukes of Hazard on [...]

The Most Incredible Day OF Shooting Ever..

By George Stocking | Jan 4, 2012
Posted in: Inspiration, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument |

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The Most Incredible Day OF Shooting Ever..

Following up my last post in which I celebrated the good times, I would like to relate my finest personal shooting experience. It was in the sandstone and brainrock of N Arizona. That is what I still call - The Most Incredible Day of Shooting Ever, or as I will refer to it in the future - TMIDOSE . We started shooting around 1:00 PM, and didn’t stop until the rainbows faded at sunset. In the final [...]

By Kurt Budliger | Dec 22, 2011
Posted in: General, Inspiration, New Hampshire, Tech Tips |

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How Photography is like Tequila

For some they both can be an acquired taste, a little bitter at first but after a while starts to get easier to swallow. Just think about the first time you tried to shoot an epic sunset and came home with nothing but washed out skies or blocked up foreground details. I don’t think I need to remind you about the first time you drank tequila, or maybe someone does? [...]

Want Your Images to Look Different? (part 2)

By Kurt Budliger | Dec 12, 2011
Posted in: Acadia National Park, Creativity, General, Tech Tips |

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Want Your Images to Look Different? (part 2)

In part one of this series I offered 5 strategies for jumpstarting your creative juices and beginning the journey toward creating unique or different images. Part one can be found here and is probably worth reading in conjunction with this post. 6) Incorporate motion. Many of the techniques we’ve learned as nature photographers have been geared toward maximizing sharpness in our images. We use tripods, small apertures for depth of field, [...]

Want Your Images to Look Different? (part 1)

By Kurt Budliger | Dec 5, 2011
Posted in: Creativity, General, Tech Tips, Vermont |

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Want Your Images to Look Different? (part 1)

Then photograph differently! I don’t mean to be glib, especially since this is my introductory post to the Dreamscapes Blog (give me a couple of more posts and believe me I can be glib) but it’s really true. We’ve all no doubt heard the famous Albert Einstein quote about the definition of insanity: something like doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Simply put, if [...]

By Ian Plant | Jun 3, 2011
Posted in: Creativity, Lake Superior |

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Don’t Wear “Pre-Visualization Blinders”

At the tail end of my recent two week Lake Superior tour, I decided to go after a shot I had been planning for quite some time. Although I had a long two day drive back home ahead of me, and I was exhausted after two weeks of shooting, driving, hiking, and kayaking, I nonetheless decided to get up at 4am and hike in the dark to Spray Falls, which plunge over the colored [...]

By Ian Plant | Jul 23, 2010
Posted in: Wyoming |

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Wonderful Wyoming

I recently spent two weeks photographing in Wyoming, including Yellowstone, the Wind River mountains, and the Grand Tetons (yep, it’s true—the Tetons were named by French trappers who thought the peaks looked like massive, pointy breasts—don’t blame me, I didn’t name them). Summer shooting is always the most difficult, and typically the least productive. One has to successfully negotiate long days with little sleep, hordes of tourists, and even larger hordes of biting [...]

By Ian Plant | Apr 26, 2010
Posted in: Grand Staircase-Escalante |

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Off the Beaten Path: Devil’s Garden, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Welcome to Off the Beaten Path, a new column on my photoblog dedicated to far away places, once-in-a-lifetime moments, and those rare flashes of inspired thinking. You know, those places and moments that for some reason stay fresh in your memory long after you, or they, are gone. Those places and moments that are why we get up before the crack of dawn, and stay up late long after the light has [...]

By Ian Plant | Apr 14, 2010
Posted in: Grand Staircase-Escalante |

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Serendipity at Wahweap

Some photo shoots are a struggle against bad weather, bad light, bad inspiration, and overall bad conditions. But every now and then, one gets a bit of luck. On a recent back country trip to the Wahweap Hoodoos in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument wilderness in Utah, luck was definitely on my side—for a change! Along with my good friend and colleague Joe Rossbach, we spent the afternoon backpacking from the trail head at Big [...]

By Ian Plant | Apr 3, 2010
Posted in: Arches National Park |

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The Power of Persistence

While scouting for an upcoming Creative Visions Nature Photography Workshop in Moab, Utah, fellow photographer Joe Rossbach and I decided to spend a day exploring a rarely visited red rock canyon in the Castle Valley area just outside of Arches National Park. I enjoy getting off the beaten path, and photographing areas that are overlooked by the hordes of photographers that too often descend on more popular places. The little canyon we choose [...]

By Ian Plant | Feb 28, 2010
Posted in: Birds |

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Snowy Owls

I just returned from four days of photographing snowy owls (Bubo scandiacus) in Ontario and Quebec provinces, Canada. I went with Alex Mody, a young up-and-coming photographer who has a real passion for bird photography, and who is very adept at finding these solitary birds. The snowy owl spends much of its time perched still and silent on prominent lookouts, waiting for prey. We photographed several female owls during our trip, which typically [...]