Daily Images by Kevin Raber
While in New York recently I spent some time in Grand Central Station. You can spend hours there. There is so much going on and there is an amazing restaurant food court underneath. I did a lot of panoramas while there. I wanted to catch the immensity of the location. I also worked a lot to get images for my seeing double, being square project. Here is one of the Panos I did, converted to BW. Shot with the Sony a6500.
I never thought I would be a cat person. Then about 5 years ago Pixel picked me as her human. Wasn’t looking yo be a cat human but she insisted. Pixel is an amazing and magical cat. Hard to describe her except she is different and beautiful. A month or so ago Debra decided that she wanted to replace a cat that had died recently. So, we went cat shopping at Jupiter picked us. He’s a boy, not afraid of anything and loves to play. He loves hanging with his humans and cuddles with us a lot. He’s going to be a cool cat. The photo says it all.
I have had the chance to photograph Polar Bears several times and they are just magnificent animals. On one trip we pushed way far into the ice, turned the engines off and drifted for a few days and let the bears come to us. Sometimes we had a few bears around the ship. They were as curious as we were. This is a bear who was quite active. He was jumping between chunks of ice. Shot with a Nikon D800.
Indianapolis is my hometown. I love to wander around the city and have fun looking for form and gesture in the architecture of the city. I shot this image of the Marriot hotel in town with a long lens contrasting the red of the sculpture with the blue tint of the hotel. I like looking for abstracts in architecture.
The cool thing about Moab, Utah is you can stay in the village and with less than an hour driving time be in some amazing places. On one side of the highway is canyons and the other side arches. This was made in Arches National Park. Great hiking, lots of places to photograph. You’ll need at least several days to capture the area properly. Sunrise and sunset are the best times obviously. The air is clear and if you get there late October to early November you may get a beautiful dusting of snow.
I know a lot of people like to sit on a beach in winter and go someplace war. Me, I love the cold places and you’ll find me in Antarctica and Iceland. This is the kind of image you can expect from Iceland in the winter. And, believe it or not, it’s not that cold. Iceland is best in winter and thus you get ice shots in Iceland. This is a pano made at one of the iceberg lagoons. There are a lot of other really incredible places in icealnd to be seen in winter. Imagine beautiful frozen waterfalls with gorgeous sunsets. If you are interested than consider traveling with me this MArch as I take photographers on an Icealnd Winter Workshop.
A few years ago I made my first journey to the Svalbard area in the Artic Circle. It was my first opportunity to photograph Polar Bears. And, it was an experience I won’t forget. I have been back several times and have loved photographing these incredible animals. The Polar Bear though is in trouble for numerous reason. I have spent time learning about this and making friends with a number of experts on the topic. This image I think tells a story. It expresses well what is happening. The bear is at the edge of the ice looking off and this symbolizes what the bears are facing. Shrinking ice packs and with it a challenge for them to survive. I call this image Polar Bear On The Edge. I think the bird at the top really adds to the image.
Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland is a beautiful place to visit. Iceland has a ton of iconic locations like this. I have been shooting there for years and at this location. Typically all of us at a workshop pile out of the van and head to the waterfalls. We try to duplicate other iconic images made from this spot. This year was different. I got out of the van and headed off in my own direction determined to find a different shot. The image above is what I found. The light was right. The lead in composition worked. Mission accomplished.
I have been working on a personal project for the last two years and I am now at the editing and selection stage. This is a project of square format images made as double exposures. Lots of fun and something different. I’ll show a major selection of these at my gallery at the end of April. I’ll share more over the coming weeks.
I always like this image. I have been going through my files of the last few years prepping images for an online store. It’s a good exercise and every photographer should do it. This is one from one og=f my Italy trips. It tells its own story. Lonely trees, big field and giant sky with magnificent clouds. Shot with a long lens from a distance only makes it stand out even more.