Photography, Techniques and Whereabouts of Kevin Raber
Like I may have mentioned I was doing a new theme in the Palouse on the last trip and it was truck doors. Yesterday I shared one such door and today another. I like this one because of the color and texture as well as the position of the window crank and door handle. Shot with the Sony a7r iii and 100-400mm lens.
I spend a lot of my time looking for new and interesting images by framing things we see every day and putting a frame around them. On my trip to the Palouse last June, I spent a lot of time looking at abandoned things and especially cars and trucks. This image was taken through a driver’s side window of an old truck and then I did a little post-processing magic. I love the texture and that it takes a minute to figure out what you are looking at. I have a few more like this that I will publish soon.
If you have been reading this blog for a while you know how much I like the Palouse. The Palouse is a region in SE Washington state that has beautiful rolling hills. I June the fields are greener than green and in August they are gold when the harvest takes place. This image is one of the greener moments. Photographed from a location I discovered by accident and usually where I shoot sunrises.
The Palouse is obviously one of my favorite places for photography if you haven’t figured that out. The image above is of a barn on the main highway leading to Colfax and Pullman. I have passed this location dozens of times over the last few years and have photographed it just as many. Many times it is one of the stopping points on my workshops. This last trip the American flag looked new. We also stopped at the location when the sky was beyond perfect. Add to that the wheat was golden and there was a nice green patch thrown in. It’s kind of the all about Palouse defining image. It has gotten nearly a 1000 likes on social media and I am just itching to make a print of it. I might even offer it up as a stock image. You gotta love the Palouse.
This is just another image from a very large series of images I have of the Palouse that I photographed in June. As I have mentioned in previous posts the sky is so dramatic in the Palouse. I love the weather in the big sky and work hard to find cool images when I see it coming.
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.
