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I posted a few new Eastern Sierra photograpns on my website. Here’s an introduction. Check them out. There are more.
I just published a slew of new Eastern Sierra photographs on the website. Here’s a sampling of some of my favorites.
Let’s start with this one. In June the South Fork of Bishop Creek, somewhere between Bishop and South Lake, spring is just getting started. And you can find a stand of aspen and willow that are just starting to dress themselves in their summer garb. I really like this scene. It feels balanced and uplifting.
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Come along as I share some of the beautiful scenes found along California’s Central Coast and in Napa Valley.
California is a great place. Here are just a few names will help to demonstrate that point – Pacific Ocean, Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Mt Whitney, Yosemite and Sequoia, redwoods (two different kinds), Big Sur, Mt Shasta; shall I go on?
Recently my wife and I spent a few days in two of these places that makes California so special – the Central Coast and Napa Valley. I’d like to share a little of what we saw there. Where to start?
When you think of light houses you don’t necessarily think of California. But we have some great ones. Here are a few examples.
Pigeon Point Lighthouse is really cool, especially on a day like this one. It has the slender beauty typically associated with New England lighthouses. And it has the benefit of being on the West Coast where we have some pretty nice sunsets.
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Do we always know what we’re going to get when we press the shutter or are we sometimes in for a pleasant surprise?
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” Robert Frost
In my workshops I talk about feeling a place before you photograph it. In fact we do an exercise. When we arrive at the location I ask the participants to leave their cameras in the car for at least fifteen minutes and just quietly wander around the area until it speaks to them. Only then can they get their cameras and try to capture what they are feeling.
This is a wonderful way of slowing down and getting in touch with the essence of a place.
But I must confess it doesn’t always work that way for me.
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Explore a key property of light – color – and how to use it in landscape photography.
One of the things that we landscape photographers pay a lot of attention to is light. In fact, it is my belief that the study of landscape photography is a never ending study of light. And that’s a good thing because there’s so much to learn.
Now, I must confess – my analytical mind needs to break things down to help my creative mind better recognize and capitalize on great light. So get ready ‘cause here come a series of blog posts on light.
The first thing I want to look at is Color. Now, we’re all pretty familiar with red, green and blue, even cyan, magenta and yellow. I don’t want to talk about color in that way. We could discuss the color wheel and that would be informative but, well, not all that exciting. I’d like to kick this off by asking a simple question…
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