One of the most amazing places I have visited has been the outback in Australia. When I visited we a place and stayed at a small post called Glen Helen. From there we ventured off into the bush. This was hot in the bush as they would say. I loved the way it turned out in B&W. The trees are gum trees. Shot with a Phase One IQ 180.
Near San Miguel, Mexico is an abandoned mining area. The place has all sorts of cool things to shoot. One that stands out are the stacks or chimneys used for some of the kilns. This is a shot of the stacks with some cactus thrown in for foreground. Shot with a Phase One IQ 180 back.
This image was shot earlier this this year near San Miguel, Mexico. It’s part of an old silver mine that we spent time in shooting. It struck me because of the colors and cactus as well as the window in the wall. Shot with a Phase One IQ180 camera and processed in Capture One.
The last week in October and first week in November is a great time to visit Zion National Park. The colors are changing, the weather is great and the light is beautiful. I have been working on some of my older files and the last few evenings I have been doing Zion images. So expect more. This was shot with a P45+ and a Phase One camera.
I say classic as this image was made on a bridge overlooking a stream and at sunset there will be 50 photographers on this bridge trying to capture this shot. The one above was made by taking six images and stitching them together. I used Capture One to balance the shadows and highlights from just one exposure. It helps it was taken on a Phase One P45+ as the dynamic range of all Phase One backs is so good. I have been re-working a lot of my images and I’ll post another Zion picture tonight.
Who says you can’t have fun with your images. This is a shot that was nice in cold. The red barn stood out though. So, why not make it stand out more. I masked the barn and desaturated the background. Now it is a bit different, but never the less fun.
This past week I traveled from Indianapolis to Toronto and then to San Francisco and eventually back to Indy. I made a visit to a friend and fellow photographers home and he ad a Rose garden. So, I got my iPhone out and did some quick shots of the roses. If I publish flowers I usually try to make them look different. I tried to make this one different too. I hope you like it.
This si a shot I did a while back on a crossing aboard the Long Island ferry heading to Connecticut. I loved the empty benches, symmetry and clouds. Kind of apocalyptic.
Ice is so incredible. IT is not cliched. You can’t take a pictures of a glacier or ice berg and come back in an hour and shoot the same shot. It’s dynamic. Here today gone tomorrow. That’s one of the reasons I love shooting ice in many parts of the world. So, todays image was made at the very popular Jökulsárlón lake or lagoon in Iceland. Movies have been shot here and it is visited by almost everyone that comes to visit Iceland, but it usually never fails to give incredible images. This image was made this past June at 3:30 AM. It doesn’t get dark that time of year but the light does change for just a little while. It gets cold and blue and an erie kind of color is there, almost light with out color. So, I shot this with a long lens with the moon coming up. I have another from this same series I will publish later.
This is how easy it is to get good pictures sometimes. This is a shot many photographers have shot, even Ansel Adams. It’s done right from the parking lot at the View Hotel in Monument Valley. Simple and effective.