One of the things that are special about the Palouse is what I call the big sky. The sky is part of the Palouse and many times actually becomes the focus of the image. Whether the skies are blue with puffy clouds or dark and gray with an approaching storm, they are always special.
I’m going to be in the Palouse again from August 10-17th photographing the harvest. The Palouse region is one of my favorite places to photograph in America. It’s always different and there are no cliched image locations. You need to seek out and find the shot. There are rolling fields of green wheat in the early summer and golden wheat in August. This photo is of a typical farm and with what I call the Palouse sky. Always something special.
I am so happy! After six long months of super hard work, we are finally able to launch the new photoPXL.com website. This has been an intense labor of love for what my life is about, photography. Last October our lives changed when the site I was running and helped grow to what it is today let us go. It’s all water under the bridge at this point, but it made us rethink where we wanted to be and what we wanted to do. I could have retired and just do what retired people do. That, however, is not me. I enjoyed publishing a website photographers could go to and call home. So, I decided to build what I hope will be the ultimate website for that photoPXL.com. With the support of family and a lot of friends, we set out to do just that.
PhotoPXL was born over a dinner conversation, and we even bought the domain while at the dinner table. Next, we set out to find a web developer that could take my vision and turn it into a website. We found the developer Ayokay in Indianapolis, and they immediately listened and presented ideas that made sense. Together with we designed the new site and tied all the pieces together.
With me on this new venture is Chris Sanderson, Debra Fadely-Raber and Michael Durr. All were with me at the previous site. Now we are back, and we have a long list of projects and some great content that we will be sharing. We also have a YouTube channel that ties into our site along with a facebook page, twitter account, and Instagram accounts.
So, if you haven’t checked the site out, please visit now and become part of our family. Thank you!
For the last few, Steve Gosling, along with our wives, have been photographing in the Faroe Islands. We have been scouting out locations form our workshop in May 20202, which is only a few spots from being sold out. The Faroes is a fantastic landscape, and during this trip, we have had a lot of clouds and dark clouds. This has made me create a lot of my images in Black and White. There are a few samples here.
I’m in the Faroe Islands for 10 days scouting out locations for our workshop here next year. Our first day was raing and gloomy but that doesn’t stop us from getting good images. We found this unique church along the road.
Today I share another stairway which I captured in one way and rendered in two versions. This was shot on an iPhone in the stairway at leica camera headquarters in Germany. I really like the way it looks and that you can’t really tell what it is. What do you think?
Stairway 2 – Hilton Hotel in Iceland. I have many good angles of this stairwa looking up and down but this one is my favorite.
This is the first in a series of stairways I have been photographing around the world. This was shot in an old library in New Orleans.
If you have been following my work, you know I like simple compositions. I see things that many people wouldn’t find worthy of a photo. Like this shot of a switch and light bulb. It’s a simple composition that works. What do you think?
Another from my Seeing Double – Being Square project – Oil Cans. I have been working on this project for years, and I am Really getting close to wanting to publish a book on these images. It’s a series I am doing all shot on an iPhone with the Hipstamatic app and a special film and lens combo. Where ever I go even when shooting with my larger cameras I take a minute and shoot scenes with this setup. The image here was of oil cans found at an antique store.
