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Misconceptions in Landscape Photography

Part one in a series of shorter posts, in which I want to discuss a few misconceptions in Landscape Photography. I listen to many photographers, read many photography articles and am generally immersed in Landscape Photography so I often hear information or discussions about Landscape Photography which shouldn’t always be taken for truth. Nearly every…
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Photographing a New Location: 7 Tips to Create Better Images When Traveling to a New Location

Photographing a new landscape can be exciting for many reasons and the thrill of a new landscape is something many photographers dream of, whether distant or relatively close to home. Photographing a new location brings many challenges though and often leads to very few “keeper” images, despite the initial thrill and excitement of travel. There’s…
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Winter Photography in Bryce Canyon National Park: Part 2

Part 1 of this blog shared information about gear and clothing to consider while photographing in Bryce Canyon National Park in Winter.  Part 2 will discuss logistics and other considerations during the Winter.  I’ll also share some recommendations for locations as well as some tips for techniques and practices for cold weather shooting.  Of course…
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Winter Photography in Bryce Canyon National Park: Part 1

Bryce Canyon National Park in Southern Utah sits at a high elevation around 8000 feet above sea level and receives ample snow during most winters.  This magical landscape of sculpted hoodoos and canyons glows in sunlight throughout the year and especially comes alive in the winter when covered in snow.  Without snow, this landscape is…
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Follow Along & Connect
I was struggling for words to go along with this photo, nothing was forming yet so many ideas were beginning. I wanted to talk about simplicity vs complexity, about contrasts and design, or curiosity and discovery. In the end I didn't say anything about these because I felt I already did.
Part II ~ Applying a similar way of seeing in a different landscape but this time, a well known landscape. One of the joys of traveling is photographing in a familiar way but with new variations.
Layers & Tones // Landscape Photography to me is just as much about how you see the landscape as it is about where the landscape is. The play of light over layers of the landscape is interesting to me no matter where it is.
Summer // Autumn
II: Something a little different, more of a feeling than a detailed interpretation. I don't need reality to invoke this feeling, just something to remind me of it.
9:00 PM on the Palouse with an ocean of green. This place may have just as many shades of green as the Olympic Rainforest on the other side of the state. There's something about how you feel when surrounded by a continuous color and the infinte variations of it💚.
What was the first thing you remember ever wanting to photograph in Nature? For me it was clouds, particularly the ones that glow after sunset, far on the horizon. I don't remember exactly when that was but it was long before I actually had a camera to capture what I wanted.
Basalt Castle // Sunset
Moonrise & Moonset from a few days ago. Clouds obscured the moonrise and the morning eclipse and of course it cleared up the next day😂. The first image is interesting to me because to the eye, this scene was nearly dark and I nearly had put my camera away. I have to remind myself from time to time that an image can be more than what our eyes limited us to see in person🌒.
The green topped mountains of Zion💚. The lower elevations of SW Utah are officially in the red brick oven for the next few months with temps in 100's (39°C). Meanwhile, the plateaus are just becoming green with scrub oak and aspens with more reasonable temps in the 60's & 70's.
Simplicity of Life //
It's like a painting in real life, all directions, every day. Forms of light and colors and shape are constantly at play in this landscape of design. While not true "Nature Photography", the Palouse of Eastern Washington is a delight to the eyes and speaks to the simplicity of life in a beautiful way. So maybe it's equivalent💚🌾.

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