Landscape, Nature & Travel Photography
This past year 2009 was a fantastic year for me in the area of photography. Aside from staying close to home and going on miscellaneous shoots in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, I was grateful to travel three times this year for the sole purpose of photography. These three trips include: Spring in [...]
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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 of [...]
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Grand Teton National Park is a beautiful place to visit and photograph anytime of the year, but in autumn, in particular, the park comes alive with colors. The cottonwoods and aspen start to change color, and the park turns into a carpet of orange, yellow, green, and sometimes, even red, indicating that winter is just [...]
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I‘ll be in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks this week. The primary focuses of this trip are on the fall colors at Grand Teton National Park, and on the wildlife of the Lamar Valley in the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park. In Grand Teton National Park, I’ll be hitting all of the usual [...]
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This week, Flickr, the popular online photo sharing service (of which I am a member of – see my sidebar to the right), introduced a new feature called “Galleries.” Flickr gives its members a variety of different ways to organize their personal photos. However, the new Galleries feature allows you to organize your favorite photos [...]
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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 [...]
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First and foremost, I’m an amateur photographer, but I take my hobby seriously. A very brief overview of my progression in photography… I’ve always been fascinated by photography – as a young child, I liked to carry a small point and shoot to document vacations, social gatherings, etc… When my point and shoot left me [...]
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