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This was the perfect day at Crabtree lake in the Oregon Cascades- fresh snow, no wind, soft light and no a soul in sight. I had one of the prettiest places I have ever been all to myself. A week later the access was snowed in so I was lucky to get this shot when I did. I took lots of shots of this lake but this one I like the best. I need to go back!
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There was a time when I spent every April photographing desert flowers in Arizona. I haven't been back in two decades but looking at this image it makes me want to go back and do it all over again. I took this Globemallow with my Pentax 6x7 medium format camera. It wasn't very good for close-ups but from a couple of feet away it worked really well. I was...
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Sol Duc Falls in Olympic National Park, Washington is one of my all-time favorite places in the world. It is a ¾ mile hike through a magnificent old forest to get to the falls and there are photographs everywhere. Go there on a quiet, misty day or even a lightly raining day- the light will be magnificent and the forest will magically glow. Please don't go...
Golden Oldies
You all are going to have to suffer through a visual trip down memory lane for a few posts. I am just about done going through my 100,ooo slides I had in my office and in the process of doing so I found some images that I hadn't seen in a long, long time. The first ones I am going to show were taken with a Pentax 6x7 that I owned for a few years in the...
More Errors!
Here's an oldie of mine that I took 20 years ago. Do you see the compositional error that makes me twitch every time I look at this photo? The penguins are placed too close to the corner or the composition. It's not a horrible composition but it is also not as good as it could've been. Moving the penguins out, away from the corner just a smidge would've...
Old Errors- even worse!
I just found this photo of the same bear that is even worse! Talk about composing in an uncomfortable way! I see this all the time during critiques and image reviews- closer is not always better. You've got to let the animal, or kid have space to move into otherwise it looks like solitary confinement! I should've listen to me! It was a thrill to be...
Old Errors
One of the results of me going through all my old slides and picking a few to be scanned (by Scancafe) is that I had some fun looking at old images and reliving old memories that had faded with time. The memories are always fond but not all the images I see are always perfect. Many, I now wish, shouldn't been photographed differently- they would've been...
Facebooking!
I know, who would've thought! Yes I am now active on Facebook. I've had a Facebook page for many years but I have not actively contributed to it but now I am. I will soon have the two linked so anything new on one appears on the other. My Facebook page is strictly a professional page- photography, writing, anything I'm doing actively in my career. There...
Shooting Transitions
It is that time of the year when Winter is mostly gone but Spring hasn't quite sprung yet. What's a photographer to do? I find that most nature and outdoor photographer, actually most all photographers wait for the perfect day, perfect situation before they start to take pictures. That of course makes sense but it sure is limiting and makes for a lot of...
Spring Photo To-do List
It's mid-February, the worst of the winter photo-doldrums and time seems to have stopped advancing as we wait for the photo opportunities of Spring. What is a photographer to do? Here's your To-do list: 1- Go visit your favorite Spring photo locations and scout them for any changes. Has the access changed? Has there been any winter damage? Do you see any...