A long boat ride from Longyearbyen, Svalbard sits an abandoned city that was once a thriving Russian coal mine. I have visited this location on just about every visit I have made to Svalbard. It’s an incredible place and is a ton of fun to photograph in. This is an image from the community center’s music room. I’ll have more images from this amazing place in the coming weeks.
This image was part of one of my more favorite days of photography. This image was made in Buffalo NY at Silo City. Silo City is a major complex of mostly abandoned gigantic grain silos. A friend Mark Maio, holds annual workshops at this location and you are given full access to the complex. If you are into the urbanex type of photography you’ll find this location a dream come true. I have been to this location an number of times and never tire of it. On this particular trip, I hired a model for a half a day and we had a blast photographing in as many places as we could find.
This one location which is below a silo over a hundred feet tall. I loved the chutes and light and asked the model to pose in ways that mimicked these machines. The backlight was just right and the symmetry of the columns all lead to a cool image in the end.
As a photographer, one of the most frustrating things, especially in the social media times we are in is coming up with an image of an iconic place that hasn’t been done before. This challenge is also a good one for our everyday photography endeavors. On a trip to London, I spent a day walking the city. This is one of the images that I made to show an iconic location differently. I looked up and thought it would compose well as a square and then used the square format to compose the image.
In post-processing, I converted the image to BW and then added the frame using Topaz Studio.
Iceland is a magical and special place for me. I stared visiting Iceland in 2004 before it was even on an
I am planning on offering tours to Ic3land again in 2021. Information will be on Rockhopperworkshops. Check out the site for other locations and dates
We have been away for a while trying to get our feet on the ground after being let go from Luminous-Landscape.com. If you aren’t aware of it the whole team from the old LuLa site have moved on. We were quite disappointed not to mention surprised at what happened. But, never fear we have decided to create a new website photoPXL.com and do it bigger and better than before. This doesn’t come without a lot of time and effort and we are pretty focused on getting the new site launched. Please visit photopxl.com and sign up to be notified when we launch our new site.
In the meantime, we are also working hard on launching new workshops for 2020 and 2021 with Rockhopperworkshops.com.
Presently we have 4 berths that have become available for our 2202 Antarctica trip and 4 spots available for Palouse the Harvest. We are also well into the planning stages for 2020 and 2021 with Iceland, Faroe Islands, Africa and more. So stay tuned.
I’ll do my best to keep things flowing better on this site now that we are back in real operational mode. Thanks for stopping by.
I have committed a terrible thing by not keeping this site up to date. My apologies. Things sort of got away from me and I am trying to come in for a landing after a super busy summer of teaching workshops and travel. So, I will do my best to get things back on track staring today.
Todays’ image was made in Torre Del Pines in Argentina. We stopped for some fuel and here was this backetball hoop attached to this beautifyl wall. It was shot with an iPhone and enhnaced using Snapseed.
Once a year as part of an Indianapolis tradition to kick off Race Month The Stutz has an open house. The Stutz is a large 4 story building occupying a full block in downtown Indianapolis. The building quite unique and special. There are nearly 100 artists, photographers, and high-end startup companies in the building. The last weekend in the month of April the Stutz opens its door to thousands of visitors on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. It’s not only a big party with live music and lots of different refreshments but also a chance to visit the 60 plus artist studios that will be open that night. My studio is one of those and we show off hundreds of images that I have taken all over this great planet. It’s a great time to stop by and say hi as well as shop for some of my photography at very, very special prices during the show. You’ll have a blast. You can enjoy homemade Sangria as well as Philly Pretzels too. So, mark your calendar and come visit.
The hours are 5-10 PM on Friday and 1 – 6 PM on Saturday. Location is 1060 N. Capitol Ave, Suite C-375, Indianapolis, IN.
Hope we can see you there.
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.
As you have seen in on my previous posts I have a continuing project titled Being Square – Seeing Double. This is the Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavik, Iceland. thelight inside the church was beautiful and using the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone I did series of images. These are three of the ones I took.
Many times as photographers we get stuck on seeing the big scene. yet, under our feet or in front of us is art and we just need to train our eyes enough to see this art. These images today are abstracts found in a bigger scene. One image is a wall where numerous posters have been applied and torn off. The other two images are from peeling paint on rusty truck found near the Palouse region in the state of Washington. I’m always looking for abstracts whether it is man-made or natural. You need to keep your eyes open and always be looking.
