One of the most photographed beaches in Washington state is the 2nd beach. This beach is close to Forks, WA and Olympic National Park. There is a small hike on a fairly well-groomed trail to the beach. Once there you are greet with an incredible scene. It’s even a better sunset. be sure to stay until it is dark. Bring a flashlight so you can find your way back through the forest. Visit this location several time because each time is different and really incredibly beautiful sunsets.
In just a little over a year, I will hopefully (pandemic depending) be heading to Ushuaia, Argentina to board the Ocean Nova for yet another voyage to the most incredible location on the planet. Our trip is being hosted by one of my companies Rockhopper Workshops. It’s a 20-day trip visiting the Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica. It is the ultimate bucket list trip.
The image above was a shot as we approached S. Georgia Island. This place never disappoints with great light and clouds and is teaming with wildlife.
I continuallly go through my images and find new ones to work on. These two images are from the Plaouse region. I picked these two images and did some special post processing on them. I wasn’t heavy handed but wanted to add texture and a contrastly BW look to the silo photo. On the truck door photo I played with some color grading to give it a look that I thought made it look like it was sort of old. Always be playing. Go through your images and find the hidden treasures you bypassed before and work on making them something special.
If it wasn’t for the pandemic I would have just been returning from Greenland. I do photo workshops and tours there every year except this one. I miss Greenland and need to get back there. I do have 2 back to back workshops scheduled there for next year. You can find information for this workshop HERE. By next year we are pretty confident that we will have a vaccine and be good to go. These workshops are booking up so if interested please think about booking soon.
I miss traveling so much. For someone like myself who has been traveling at least a month for years and years, being stuck at home is devastating. So, the images I am sharing now are from past trips. This image is from one of my favorite places, the Palouse. Specifically Palouse FAlls at the State Park. This is showing the spot I use most to cover both the falls and canyon. If you are lucky when photographing here you can catch cloudy and stormy skies or the sunset. I usually use a 16mm lens here. Put on a neutral density filter and I can then do 20- 50-second exposures and get that cool looking smooth waterfall look. The picture below is a group shot from one of my workshops in the Palouse. The 2021 workshops in the Palouse are sold out.
Any long time reader here knows that Antarctica is my favorite place. I have been there over 20 times and do a trip or two a year. We were lucky to get the trip this year in February before everything shut down. One of the favorite locations in Antarctica to experience is the Lemaire channel. This a narrow channel between two large mountains is a highlight of Antarctica travel. On a trip a few years ago I did a 30 exposure pano of the channel showing both ends. as the ship was moving forward I set up my camera in a vertical position and turned the drive to low. I then set my first exposure at the end of the channel from where we began and then panned right while the camera was on auto-drive. This made a lot of exposures to blend but assured I would have enough for good overlaps and creating the pano. The pano was made in photoshop. I think this a unique image of a popular location, thus accomplishing what I always like to do is finding a different way to see something that so many people photograph.
I have been to Death Valley at least a dozen times. Each time is different and I am always discovering new locations to take photos from. The shot above was made late one day a few winters ago while on my way back from visiting Bodie. Bodie is one of the strangest towns you can visit. A few hours there feels like a day and it’s kind of one of those oddball towns with oddball people. I highly recommend a visit there. Anyway on my way back from the visit I came over the mountain and the whole valley had a spectacular set of clouds over it. And, the sun was going down. So I drove downhill to a location that gave a clear view of the valley and let the magic happen. It was like the whole sky was on fire. I used a wide-angle lens to get as much sky as I could. The photo below was one of the workshop attendees silhouetted against the sky.
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One of the earths big mystery is the Race Track at Death Valley National Park. I have visited this location a few times. It’s not easy to get there and you need to make sure you have a vehicle that can you get there. The race track is a playa that stretches for miles and is usually dry and cracked (like everything else in DV). The mystery here is that the stone magically moves on the playa and leave their tracks in the dried up mud. There are many theories about how this happens but no one really has witnessed this. I believe like many that after a rainstorm the playa fills with a few inches of water and then the crazy winds come in and the wind pushes the rock around and the rock leaves a path of where it came from. In any case, it makes for some great photos. These are two for my large collection. I think you will agree they are pretty cool.
One of the things I like doing when visiting Chicago, one of my favorite cities is to take the architecture tour. This is a boat tour that takes you up and down the river then out to Lake Michigan. The photo ops on the trip are numerous, especially you take the tour at different times of the say. I wanted to share on a picture I took on the trip. Essentially I took an image that looked of (below) and then using Capture One made adjustments to the image you see above. The main tools were level, color temp, contrast, clarity, saturation. I’ll be doing tutorials on photoPXL.com to show how all this is done. But, you need to have confidence that if you take a photo that you might question, that in the end, you can use your software to bring it to life.
Please Visit . . .
If you are interested in seeing more work by Kevin Raber and purchasing his work for your own, please visit RaberEYES.com
Kevin also runs workshops for photographers all over the world at Rockhopper Workshops
Kevin also has. a major website for all photography enthusiasts with articles, forums, tutorials, community and more at photoPXL.com
I have made at least six trips to Svalbard. Svalbard is a territory of Norway in the polar circle. We normally board a ship there and spend at least ten days exploring the area. Part of the mission on the trip is to photograph polar bears. This is one Polar Bear we tracked for a while. You can search this site for Polar Bear and find more photographs of thse magnificent creatures.