Daily Images by Kevin Raber
I can’t even begin to tell everything that has happened on this trip to Ireland. I am having a great time. The attendees on the PODAS workshop are having a blast and all of us are taking and making great photos. The image above is a 30 second exposure taken at Minard Castle Beach. See the Phase One PODAS blog for more details.
This PODAS workshop is going extremely well. Ireland is amazing except for their roads and crazy drivers. Not to mention the steering wheel is on the wrong side and you drive on the wrong side of the road. Add to that I am driving a stick and have to shift with my left hand. In any case we are taking great images but not sleeping. Went to bed at midnight and was up by 3:30 to get to the Dunlow Gap in time to shoot the image above. You can also see more images from the Dunlow Gap at www.podas.info . We have several more days on shooting in Ireland. A new image tomorrow.
This is a short post as I have just a few minutes before heading out to the next part of our PODAS adventure in ireland. This shot was made last night in Bridia Valley, Ireland. It’s a simple shot made with a Phase One IQ 180 on an ALPA camera with a 23mm lens. Just works. Visit www.podas.info for more images.
Does it get much better? Nope, tonight was fantastic. This was shot on my iPhone and I also shot many images from tonight’s dusk extravaganza on my Phase One IQ180. Really busy here in Ireland and it will be a great week full of surprises. Enjoying the country a lot. Tomorrow we kick of PODAS workshops. You can follow at www.podas.info my other blog. I have a lot of editing to do on my return trip home.
Made it to Ireland. Today I picked up Steve on of the PODAS instructors and Drew our Phase One support person and we headed to the LAke Hotel where we will be based until Wednesday. IT’s been an adventurous day as I had to rent a van (one of five) we will be using. Crazy thing is the steering wheel is on the wrong side and they make you drive on the wrong side of the road. Pretty crazy and add to that it is a stick shift and you have to shift with your left hand. They call this civilized. I have another few words for it. Should make for an interesting week. This is a simple iPhone shot done of the lake in front of this wonderful hotel. we bring the big guns (Cameras) out tomorrow. This is a very photo rich area and I am sure we will be capturing some wonderful photography. I’ll try to post daily but it may get busy. Days are long and light is good. More to come.
This a beautifully simple image from the Palouse area of Washington. I love this area so much that I am leading a photography workshop there in August. We have 25 attendees with three world class instructors. Check out www.phaseone.com/podas for for information about this workshop and others. what you see here is what you get there. No defined areas to shoot just a lot of great back roads and rolling hills and such.
By the time you read this I’ll be in Ireland. I pre-scheduled this post and it is a follow up to yesterdays image. More from the same mechanic’s yard. This is a rusty wheel thingy.
While at my sons wedding a few weeks ago I went exploring and found this corner mechanics shop with a variety of old and rusty things. The place was a photographers dream thus for the next day or so you will see images from there. This was one that was just randomly nailed to the wall of the building. Why a license plate and a horseshoe? Don’t know but it caught my eye. There were old tricks, gears, junk, and even a truck that was sold old it had to be from the thirties. It had a big Redwood tree still on it’s bed and there was tree growing out of it. Look for more soon.
One thing I love about photographing in the west is the wide open – big sky feel that you get. You can see so far and so high and you get a perspective that you can’t get when you live with obscured horizons and trees everywhere. This was shot in Death Valley on the road to Beatty.
A few posts ago I published a color HDR version of the NEW Performing Arts Center – Palladium in Carmel, IN. Here’s yet another in a Black & White version. This building is so cool that I will be shooting it under different conditions for some time to come. Hope to start interior photos with the IQ 180 very soon.
I am heading to Ireland on Wednesday so the blog may be spotty as it will depend on internet connections where I am traveling. I’ll be leading a PODAS workshop and we will be visiting some magnificent locations. Look for images to be coming your way.