After posting a very popular image from yesterday of an Iceberg, I though I would go another direction and put up some cool rocks. There were shot in Big Bend National park an number of years ago. There were some great formations there. I likes the way the rooks seemed to be piled as if god was just having fun stacking them in certain spots. This formation I like with the sky, shadow and look.
This iceberg has long since melter. As we traveled through Antarctica we would come upon icebergs like this and we would ask our russian captain if he would circle the bergs so we could photograph it from all angles and he usually complied. I liked this one because of the sky and blues as well as ice flow in front. It also looks great in B&W.
This has been an incredible week with the PODAS workshop. I head home today only to leave on Wednesday for Scotland. I tend to move around a lot. One of the things that is fun to do is shoot what we photographers term street photography and San Miguel is perfect for this. So much going on. This shot was made near the ATM machine of a woman who is obviously begging. You see this a lot in Mexico. Sad. I composed quickly got a few shots off and then made sure to give her some Pesos. The power is the face, and out reached hand. More images will be coning from this trip as I have time to work on them.
While out shooting during the PODAS workshop the sky turned real dramatic. Photographers love skies like this. We were at an old silver mining town long abandoned and as I looked at this one building the sky just opened up and blessed me with what I call god rays.
I am still in San Miguel, Mexico and we have had a great PODAS workshop. It’s always fun to lead a workshop like this. I make new friends and get to photograph with some really great people. This workshop was different because instead of photographing the big expansive landscapes we were shooting ruins, streets and such. Totally different but with some fantastic results. It’s fun to change the game. This si a shot made at an old silver mine. This was a fantastic place to visit. We had a local on this workshop who knew people who knew other people and we were able to go where many people don’t go. This shot I liked because of the awl, with a giant cactus in from and then how about a tree in the window. I’ll try to post another image later today.
Kind of hard to blog when I am running a PODAS Photography workshop. I am leading a group of Phase One users on a PODAS workshop in San Miguel Mexico. We are having a great time with intensive photography excursions broken up with time for sharing, laughing and enjoying our passion of photography. Visit the PODAS blog to follow everything that we do on this workshop. I’ll do my best to add entries when I can. Todays image is a doorway of a church outside of San Miguel.
One of our instructors on the PODAS workshop spends the winter in Sam Miguel. From the roof top deck of his home is a magnificent view of the city. Here is sunset from San Miguel.
I am leaving today for a week in beautiful SanMiguel Mexico. I’ll be blogging from there the rest of the week and also posting on my other blog the PODAS Workshop Blog. SanMiguel is just a lovely place and so is the surrounding countryside. Expect to see photos of people, street scenes and landscapes. I’ll be leading a groups of Phase One camera owners on this trip. Instructors will be Michael Reichmann and Mark Dubovoy. Visit the blog and see all the action.
On one of my trips to Bryce Canyon I had one of those magic moment light sunrises. Snow and this golden light and so much to shoot. This is one shot. I like the tree with the softer focus of the hillside in the background. Because this was short with a Phase One camera there is immense detail in the shot. The roots clinging to the rocky surface and the try trying to defy the elements. Love it!
One of the locations I want to do a PODAS workshop at next year will be Norway. I was there a few years ago and have tremendously nice images from the trip. This is one shot near the base of a still active glacier looking down the valley that the glacier once occupied. The small puddle of water on the rock kind of sets a nice foreground for the distant valley. If I remember this was shot with a P45+.