Author: Kevin Raber

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The Rock

The Race Track - Death Valley

In two weeks I’ll be leading a PODAS workshop into Death Valley with photographers from China.  This will be a great experience to share with them the beauty of what Death Valley can offer photographically as well making some new friends.  The language differences should make for some challenges teaching but we think we have that worked out.  There are so many cool things to see and shoot in Death Valley.  This will be a great trip.  The image above was made with an IQ180 in Death Valley this past spring at what is know as the Race Track.  Fascinating place where rocks move and leave trails behind them.  No one has ever seen them move or know exactly how they move.  What ever the reason it makes great shooting.

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Big Blue

Big Blue

Got cold here today (chilly) but none the less I thought ice.  So, it’s iceberg picture time.  Another image from thousands that I have of ice and cold in Antarctica.  This was a beautiful blue iceberg that slipped into a bay where our ship was anchored.  we did a Zodiac cruise around it and I shot a number of angles.  I like this low angle and the deep blue.  Shot with a Phase One P65+ and a 28mm lens hand held.

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Zion Color

Tree in Zion National Park

One of the prettiest places to visit in the fall is Zion National Park.  The colors there as the season changes are incredible.  Zion is a small park but offers a lot of diversity in photography.  After October 31st the park opens to cars and then you can explore and stop and shoot images like the one above.  This was shot with a Phase One P65+.

 

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Blue Headlight

Blue Headlight

Sometimes I just like to mess around and have fun.  It’s not always about the perfect landscape, the chilly dawn shot or the angle.  Sometimes it is just about taking an iPhone out because you saw something that looked good and shooting it.  This is the headlight of a sports car.  It looked good.  Symmetry and balance combined with color.  It was shot with the Hipstamatic app  on the iPhone and then taken a bit further in SnapSeeed an ipad app.  Oh, and it just is fun!

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Man In Row Boat

Man Rowing Boat

This is a shot that I always liked and finally decided to post.  It was shot in Buenos Aires which is an interesting place to visit.  Lots of rust and abandoned ships and buildings.  This guy was just rowing his boat up this extremely busy and dirty river.  He had a mission and purpose.  I messed with the image a bit and grunged it a bit.  I love the way his face peeks out and the splash from his oar.

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Palouse Sunrise

Sunrise in Palouse

In August I lead a photography workshop PODAS to the Palouse area of Washington.  I have been posting a number of images from this trip as time allows.  This one is one of those real special ones.  It was shot on the first morning of the workshop and a weather from was coming in.  We were on a small bluff overlooking this quaint little valley and all the elements just lined up for what turned out to be an hour of incredible photography.  Ill post more from this one morning over the coming weeks.  Enjoy this one today.

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iPhone Images These Days

Yellow Tractor

I am still recovering from my shoulder surgery.  My arm is in a sling and I have a few more weeks to go.  I am still uncomfortable much of the time but my physical therapist says I am doing good.  So, all this make it very frustrating being a photographer and not being able to lift a camera.  I’m going nuts.  So, I ventured out this past weekend with my friend and shooting buddy Debra and went for a drive.  I shot everything on an iPhone. Even that was difficult left handed but I was shooting none the less.  So today’s image was from on of our first stops.  There are  more images coming.  This is an old tractor parked in the front yard of some farmer.  It was one of those crisp colorful days and the tractor worked into it well.  I used the Hipstamatic camera to catch this shot.  Hope you enjoy it.

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Fall Colors

Cataract Creek - Indiana

Well it’s been a few weeks since my surgery and I just had to get out of the house.  Not being able to lift a camera has been driving me crazy too.  I will recover and get my strength in my shoulder back, but there comes a time where you just have to take some steps.  On Sunday I ventured out with my friend Debra and we took a journey south and found some fall colors and waterfalls.  The day was just perfect and the colors were just hitting peak.  I ended up shooting the iPhone left handed.  Yeah, pretty pathetic considering I wanted to shoot the big boy IQ180 the whole time.  In any case I was able to get some nice images.  Here is one.  And as a bonus, I got to visit with my youngest son Scott in Bloomington.  He’s looking good!

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Seeing Different

Old Man Statue - Carmel, IN

I am still recovering from the rotator cuff injury and the most frustrating thing is I can’t lift a camera.   I am going out for a drive today to shoot and I will use my iPhone.  The picture above was shot with an iPhone and then jazzed up a bit on my iPad.  It’s of a statue ( community art) in my town Carmel, IN.  It’s just a fun shot showing how with cropping and some playing with camera angle you can come up with an unusual shot.