On my trip a few weeks ago to Mexico we did things different and shot a lot of ruins. Mexico just doesn’t have that big broad landscape. So I concentrated on looking for angles and layers in a scene. This shoot of two doorways and window works well for that. Photographed at a very old silver mine. Building were amazing as well as the light. I like things straight and balanced and worked hard to align everything in this shot to work properly. This was shot with a Phase One IQ180
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.
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.
I moved my New Zealand images over to my main work station yesterday and there is over 80 gigs of images. Not hard to make this size file when you shoot with a Phase One IQ180 camera. So now the editing begins and then the post on each image. There are so many good ones. So I think through the rest of the year I’ll plenty to share. I have a ton of other images I haven’t posted here from Death Valley, Moab and other places. So, there is not a lack of content. Todays image was also shot in the Rees Valley of New Zealand. We were driving up this dirt road that they call tracks in New Zealand and came across this river or very large stream. Lots of rapids and mountains and greenish water. So we all stopped and did pictures. This is one of the images I made. Like the vertical and horizontal movements happening as well as the rooks and tree. Enjoy.
Today has been a busy day of prepping for the upcoming workshop. We have arranged some amazing excursions to where tourists and other folks don’t often go. We have helicopters, ski planes, zodiacs and more arranged. This may be the most photo rich workshop we have ever had. The shot today was taken form the other balcony at the house we are staging from. This is an amazing country. We watched the weather today turn from a warm sunny day to high winds and rain in less than half an hour and then back. There are the most amazing clouds you have ever seen. Just stunning. Stay tuned for more.