Landscape, Nature & Travel Photography
From the category archives:
Monument Valley is one of my most favorite places on this planet. It is quite a feat to find the words to appropriately describe this location, but in the next couple of blog postings, I am going to give it a shot. Few landscapes in the world come close to paralleling the mystical Monument Valley [...]
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The landscape of the American Southwest abounds with crazy and whimsical rock and geologic formations. There are rocks that look like pancakes (or UFO saucers), a Mexican sombrero, mittens, a mother with her child, and more. There is even a geologic formation just north of the Mexican hat that resembles a long gooseneck, [...]
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As I was browsing in Grand Teton National Park’s state-of-the-art Main Visitor Center in Moose (formally named the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center) one day, I caught a few minutes of a ranger presentation being given that highlighted the main features of the park. When the ranger got to talking about Schwabacher Landing (one [...]
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In the previous and first post from this series, My Experience Using Singh-Ray GND Filters, Part 1: Introduction, I wrote about the so-called dynamic range problem in photography, and the various solutions that exist to overcome it. Graduated Neutral Density (GND) filters are one possible solution.
In this second posting, I describe the filters and accompanying [...]
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The Dynamic Range Problem
Most scenes that a landscape photographer would photograph contain elements that fall into one of two categories: bright and dark. For example, a landscape scene where the sunset is the main subject (like Snake River Overlook, Grand Teton National Park above) might include both bright and dark elements when photographed using only [...]
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The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (“Canyon”) is the second most widely photographed sight in Yellowstone, after, of course, Old Faithful Geyser. It is here that one can find the dramatic walls of the canyon carved out by the Yellowstone River, as well as the spectacular Upper and Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River. Many [...]
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One of the questions that I am asked the most is where some of the best places are to get a good composition of Los Angeles’ photogenic skyline or its sprawling metropolis. I’ve always liked to keep some of these locations a secret, but in this blog post I reveal where my favorite places are.
This is [...]
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