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.
I’m all about Polar Bears. I have been photographing them for years mainly in Svlabard, Norway. This ismage was made from a. Zodiac while tracking the bear along the shore line. II’m heading to Russia this summer to a new location to see if I can photograph a lot of bears with cubs. These animals are in extreme danger due to climate change.
The Chicago Bean is one of the most iconic places to take photos in Chicago. I like that as it gives me a chance to find something that may never have been seen before. It’s an opportunity to see something different. These are not easy images to do as we are influenced so often from what we have seen others do. With the Bean, I walked around and crawled around and looked through the camera and realized there were numerous opportunities to get a unique image. This one works with the identifiable people in the bottom center and after that, it just goes crazy. It works because it makes a view stop to see the image and try to figure it out.
As I have featured before Silo City in Buffalo, NY offers some great photo opportunities. This shot was made while I was wandering around outside of the facility. I found this purple door and a lot of junk covering it. I simply composed and shot. I then did some enhancements in post-processing to raise contrast and color and make the image a bit more striking.
A few months ago I was in Zion National Park. Zion is one of my favorite parks to photograph in. It’s also one of the hadrest. I went the first week of November and was surprised at how crowded the park was. I understand you don’t even want to visit in the summer. The only way around the park is by bus. So, you are the mercy of bus schedules as well as bus stops. At one time when you could drive a car in the park you could stop at all the great location, work from the car and then move to the next location.
These two shots were shot from the infamous Zion bridge. I usually avoid the bridge as it is a very iconic photo that I have shot many times. However, crossing the bridge this time I couldn’t help but see how nice the light was. It was different. So, I jumped on the bridge found a spot amonst about 40 photogaphers caught my shot and looked behind me to see another. I walk across the brdge and did another shot. I followed my rule in the field. Always be looking around, especially behind you. Many on the bridge that night did not see the second shot.
I’ll make this simple, simple like the photo. This is a giant lone wrench I saw at the waterworks plant in Buffalo, NY while I was there photographing at the Silo City workshop. This is another classic case of finding a photo in the photo. I used a long lens to explore the structure and I found this shot.
Hot air ballooning is quite the experience. I was fortunate enough a few months ago to have the chance to go hot air ballooning in Sedona, AZ at a Sony camera event. I have a ton of images of the other balloons as well as the beautiful landscape of Sedona. This is just one of many I may end up sharing here.
It’s been several years since I had been to Bryce Canyon National Park. I visited Bryve back in the fall and just now I’m really getting a chnce to edit and work my images. I like to photograph Bryce with long lenses. I have done way too many postcard shots of Bryce. So, I set my tripod up and put on a 100-400mm lens on my Sony a7r III and started to search through the viewfinder. The landscape would change as the sun would rise and shadows and light would dance. It was great and I had a chance to make some real nice expsoures. This is one of them.
In my last post I spoke of looking around you to make sure you don’t miss the shot. Today I want to encourage you to look into the landscape. Put a lonh lens on your camera and explore the elements that make up the shot. I have been doing this a lot lately and come out with beautiful images. This ius part of the Grand Canyon visia in UT. I did my wide shots with the wider angle lenses and then put a 100-400mm lens on my Sony. Zoomed all the way to 400mm I loooked around the landscape and he image above is one of the many elements I cme across.
I hv done this for the last year and found I am getting some beutiful results.