While out shooting during the PODAS workshop the sky turned real dramatic. Photographers love skies like this. We were at an old silver mining town long abandoned and as I looked at this one building the sky just opened up and blessed me with what I call god rays.
I am still in San Miguel, Mexico and we have had a great PODAS workshop. It’s always fun to lead a workshop like this. I make new friends and get to photograph with some really great people. This workshop was different because instead of photographing the big expansive landscapes we were shooting ruins, streets and such. Totally different but with some fantastic results. It’s fun to change the game. This si a shot made at an old silver mine. This was a fantastic place to visit. We had a local on this workshop who knew people who knew other people and we were able to go where many people don’t go. This shot I liked because of the awl, with a giant cactus in from and then how about a tree in the window. I’ll try to post another image later today.
Kind of hard to blog when I am running a PODAS Photography workshop. I am leading a group of Phase One users on a PODAS workshop in San Miguel Mexico. We are having a great time with intensive photography excursions broken up with time for sharing, laughing and enjoying our passion of photography. Visit the PODAS blog to follow everything that we do on this workshop. I’ll do my best to add entries when I can. Todays image is a doorway of a church outside of San Miguel.
After my brief and fat trip through Olympic National Park I came away thinking that this place has the coolest trees. This is another moss covered tree. The light was hitting it just right. Finding these trees is like hunting. You walk through a wooded area looking for a good tree and good light and hope you find them both at the same time. I was lucky on this one and the fallen the on the ground also helps set a horizontal line in the shot. I like it.
I have been doing scouting for an upcoming workshop for PODAS in the fall this weekend. I have traveled most of Olympic National Park in a fast find and time it trip. This means I drive the routes we will take and time the drives so we can fit these excursions into what is a usually tight PODAS workshop schedule. I did find some time to make some exposures. Here’s one of some waterfalls near Lake Quinault. More to come. Heading back to Seattle today and then home on Tuesday for a few days before heading off to Denmark. It’s going to be a very year of travel and picture taking.
I am getting excited about the possibilities for a workshop in Olympic National Park (ONP). Even though is has been a lousy few days of weather, I managed to get some shots in today. You’ll see some more in the coming days. I plan on doing a PODAS workshop in ONP this fall – early September. I’ll keep you posted on when. This tree was in a meadow near Lake Quinault. It works because the mountains in the background were cloud covered and the light was just a lovely diffused light. I shot some cool waterfall images too.
Chicago is a fun city. There is always something to shoot. The challenge is shooting things that everyone else is shooting differently. So, every time I go to Chicago I play and shoot and especially have fun shooting the Bean which is a highly polished sculpture. It is highly reflective, seamless and just plain fun to shoot. This is one of my attempts and I think it works. If you are a regular follower you have seen other bean images and most likely in the future you’ll see even more on my blog.
The Palouse, you have heard me speak about it many times before. Lots of old and abandoned things in the Palouse, hoes, cars and trucks. This is one of those trucks. I found this in the back of an old gas station. The gas station sits on this gentlemen’s farm and he restored it to look like the old ones that were seen across America. This person collects old cars and trucks and has dozens on his property. This one is an old GMC and caught my eye and the lens of me camera. Color, rust and symmetry. Some good elements.
So very now and then I get really deep into the photo apps on the iPhone and iPad, and I see how far I can take an image to be artsy. This is an image I shoot with a Phase One IQ180 in San Miguel, Mexico. I had the image in a gallery on my iPad and I just started using a bunch of apps and came up with this as a final. It’s a tree in a courtyard of a hotel that is half constructed and then abandoned. I will be leading a workshop in San Miguel this March for Phase One camera systems owners. You can find out info about this by CLICKING HERE.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME! I love to celebrate another year of life and living my passion and dream.
I have been accumulating a lot of images these last few months. I have enough to get me through nearly a half year of blogging. I am about to start researching and redesign of my web site. Looking at a few different options. Either way I am going to also start to play with 500px so expect to hear more on that soon.
Todays shot was made while flying over the Palouse. This area is amazing on the ground and even takes on a whole new feel from above. Patterns are everywhere and like many landscapes I like to shoot it is dynamic and chaining. This pattern is not there anymore, most likely plowed under within a few days of taking this image. Truly something photographed and remembered only with this image. How cool is that?