I have photographed a lot of whales over the years. One of the coolest things to see is a humpback whale when it dives as its tail comes out of the water for a few seconds and when it does water flows off of it. This shot I like because of the colors from the setting sun. It adds color and texture in the reflections of the water.
London offers unique opportunities for some cool cityscapes and street photography. It also challenges a photographer to find a new way of seeing iconic sites. The London Eye is not only a captivating icon of London, but also one photographed a thousand times a day. I tend to always be looking at things differently and in this case, I found the chimneys of building working well with the London Eye to give a different kind of view. I made two versions of this image. One was straight black and white and the other I toned and added a texture.
Which one do you prefer?
As I have featured before Silo City in Buffalo, NY offers some great photo opportunities. This shot was made while I was wandering around outside of the facility. I found this purple door and a lot of junk covering it. I simply composed and shot. I then did some enhancements in post-processing to raise contrast and color and make the image a bit more striking.
This image was part of one of my more favorite days of photography. This image was made in Buffalo NY at Silo City. Silo City is a major complex of mostly abandoned gigantic grain silos. A friend Mark Maio, holds annual workshops at this location and you are given full access to the complex. If you are into the urbanex type of photography you’ll find this location a dream come true. I have been to this location an number of times and never tire of it. On this particular trip, I hired a model for a half a day and we had a blast photographing in as many places as we could find.
This one location which is below a silo over a hundred feet tall. I loved the chutes and light and asked the model to pose in ways that mimicked these machines. The backlight was just right and the symmetry of the columns all lead to a cool image in the end.
As a photographer, one of the most frustrating things, especially in the social media times we are in is coming up with an image of an iconic place that hasn’t been done before. This challenge is also a good one for our everyday photography endeavors. On a trip to London, I spent a day walking the city. This is one of the images that I made to show an iconic location differently. I looked up and thought it would compose well as a square and then used the square format to compose the image.
In post-processing, I converted the image to BW and then added the frame using Topaz Studio.
It was a rainy day and my friend and fellow photographer Rad Drew and I headed out to see what we could find. Many photogrpahers would have looked at the weather and would have said screw it I am staying home. But, not us. We headed north from my home and just started driving. We would get to an area that looked promising and then we would just start driving the backrooads.
This image is one from that day. I shot it with my Fuji XT-2 and then after editing it in Capture One, I imported it into my iPad. There I used Snapseed and enhanced it further with texture and tonality. From there I exported onto my iMac Pro and then into Photoshop where I used Topaz studio and the digital frame adjustment to add teh frame. It may seem like a lot of work but in reality it was pretty quick.
Iceland is a magical and special place for me. I stared visiting Iceland in 2004 before it was even on an
I am planning on offering tours to Ic3land again in 2021. Information will be on Rockhopperworkshops. Check out the site for other locations and dates
I spent a week at Leica Headquarters a year or so ago making a video on the Leica Story. If you are not aware Leica is one of most Wel known camera brands in the world. Their products are some of the highest quality products in the industry and their prices are some of the highest too. Their brand the RED dot as seen on the building is
To do this image I used a Leica M10 and then in Luminar added some effects and the digital frame. I like the glow of the building and feel it makes the building stand out. There is another shot I’ll publish soon done in the stairway of this building. So, keep your eyes out for that.
We have been away for a while trying to get our feet on the ground after being let go from Luminous-Landscape.com. If you aren’t aware of it the whole team from the old LuLa site have moved on. We were quite disappointed not to mention surprised at what happened. But, never fear we have decided to create a new website photoPXL.com and do it bigger and better than before. This doesn’t come without a lot of time and effort and we are pretty focused on getting the new site launched. Please visit photopxl.com and sign up to be notified when we launch our new site.
In the meantime, we are also working hard on launching new workshops for 2020 and 2021 with Rockhopperworkshops.com.
Presently we have 4 berths that have become available for our 2202 Antarctica trip and 4 spots available for Palouse the Harvest. We are also well into the planning stages for 2020 and 2021 with Iceland, Faroe Islands, Africa and more. So stay tuned.
I’ll do my best to keep things flowing better on this site now that we are back in real operational mode. Thanks for stopping by.