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 [...]
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Joe Rossbach and I are working hard right now to put the finishing touches on our newest eBook, Five Landscape Challenges 2, which we hope to release next week. This book contains tutorials for five common types of landscape scenes. One of the five tutorials is “Alpine Flowers,” and it contains everything you need to know in order to make great mountain flower photographs. One of the images in the book is featured below. I took this photograph [...]
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As the old saying goes: if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. As outdoor photographers, we are often at the mercy of the elements. Actually, we are always at the mercy of the elements. Despite our best efforts to arm ourselves with weather forecasts or to pray to obscure photo gods for benevolence, in the end the weather will do what it wants. All we can do when nasty weather [...]
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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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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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