One of the prettiest places to visit in the fall is Zion National Park. The colors there as the season changes are incredible. Zion is a small park but offers a lot of diversity in photography. After October 31st the park opens to cars and then you can explore and stop and shoot images like the one above. This was shot with a Phase One P65+.
So you thought pot holes in the US were bad. Look at these bubbling hot pot holes in Iceland. Actually this one of many geo-thermal fields scattered around Iceland. What you miss is the smell. Very stinky and very beautiful.
In 1984 I watched in awe as Apple introduced the Macintosh. Who will ever forget the first Macintosh ad. Ever since then I have bought nothing but Apple products and invested in the company. Yesterday was a sad day as the news of Steve Jobs death spread over the internet. Steve was a lot of things and he was a rare individual who had a vision and he followed it relentlessly. His ideals were so simple yet so defining.
While this day was not a huge surprise as we all knew it was coming, it was however the finality of it that hit me hard. It has affected me today and I find that difficult. Steve has inspired me with many of his quotes and ideas. What I find the best at this time is quoted below. He was a visionary not only about his products but also his approach to life and death.
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
Thanks Steve for all you have done, how you have made a difference in my life and for sharing your vision . . .
I though the image above was a fitting tribute to this fine man.
I needed a dose of peeling paint. Everyone knows I love peeling paint and rust. This is a peeling paint shot made with a Phase One P65+ inside a railroad car. Random and colorful. I will do a book someday on all the peeling paint shots I have.
One thing I really love about landscape photography is the magnificent sky. When all the elements come together to give yo that moment of light, clouds, and weather. This image was made near Moab, UT as a storm was approaching.
When I shoot moving water – like waterfalls, fast moving streams and such I do what is called dragging the shutter. This makes a very sur-real image that is somewhat magical. This waterfall is in Iceland and I loved the way the water ran off the rocks at the bottom of the fall. I converted the image to BW and settles on this effect.
In downtown Indianpolis there is a huge building known as the Masonic Lodge (Temple). I was fortunate enough to take a number of interior shots of this interesting building. This image is 5 images stitched together. Shot with a P65+ (60 mega pixel). You can only imagine the detail revealed in this huge image. You can see the screw heads on the outlets. Processed using Capture One and stitched in PhotoShop.
Tucked away in the Southeast corner of Washington is an area known as the Palouse. It is roughly a three country region of the most fertile soil in america. It’s also a photographers paradise. Gently rolling hills, big skies, farmland, plowed fields as far as the eye can see. Throw in old barns, lonely trees and abandoned properties and you have a place that a photographer loves. I am leading a PODAS Photography Workshop in the region for the next week. There are 28 attendees and with staff and wives I am guiding 40 people. I have a team of great instructors and staff. I’ll try to post an new image from the thrip each day. Here is an image then on a trip in the spring. You can also follow this trip in more detail BY CLICKING HERE.
At one time whaling was huge industry in the Antarctica region. Dotted across the region are old whaling stations, long abandoned where ships would bring whales that were caught, drag them ashore, butcher them and process them. Stories of bays turning red because of all the blood abound. Now all that’s left are rusty tanks, pumps, boilers and old building that barely stand. Of course this is my kind of place liking decay and rust as much as I do. Today’s image is a shot (one of hundreds) of a whaling station on Deception Island along the Antarctica Peninsula.
Iceland is one of the most beautiful locations for doing landscape photography. The vistas just keep coming at you. Hard to describe unless you visit. I am leading another workshop there next May and look forward to visiting and photographing there again. The image above is the base of one of the hundreds of waterfalls that exist there. I dragged the shutter a bit to get the feel of the water hitting the shoots then played with the image on the ipad a bit. This was photographed with a Phase One P65+ back so I had 60 megapixels to work with. This shot doesn’t come close to showing the detail in the images.