Remember the days as a kid spent laying on your back watching the clouds blow by? Those were the days! Not a worry in the world. Just kick back and enjoy the summer. Sometimes I wish I could go back to those days. And then I think again. I like where I am and where [...]
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Posted in Color, Landscape, Photo tips on Sep 1st, 2010
I love the ocean, and one of my favorite places to visit the ocean is along the Oregon coast. The opportunities for incredible photographs are endless. It makes no difference what the weather is like, imaging opportunities are abundant. The variety of coastline scenery is unreal. You can walk from the sandy beach to tidepools [...]
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In landscape photography, clouds can be a very big asset. Clouds affect the background area of the image, they affect light quality, and sometimes they can be the entire subject of the image. I love chasing storms in search of the perfect clouds. I have learned to create images with or without them, but my [...]
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“It’s cold outside.” “It’s raining and I don’t want to get the camera wet” “I didn’t have time.” The world is filled with excuses. I teach photography to high school students and I hear excuses every day. I am amazed that I hear these same excuses occasionally from “Professional” photographers as well. This is one [...]
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Posted in Color, Landscape, Ramblings on Jul 25th, 2010
Weather. It is so unpredictable. I was out photographing one late afternoon with the most perfect weather, then almost out of nowhere came the rain. I retreated to the car as the rain was really coming down. Just a few minutes later, it cleared off again and I was able to resume shooting. That is [...]
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Posted in Color, Random images on Jul 4th, 2010
Happy Independence Day! Enjoy some of my fireworks images from past Fourth of July celebrations. I try to shoot with a little different twist than others do. All of my fireworks images are in camera effects. I do not add any Photoshop effects later. Up until just a few years ago, I had never photographed [...]
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Posted in Color, Landscape on Jun 9th, 2010
After 2 days of heavy clouds, we finally saw the sun, albeit only for about 8 minutes as it hit the horizon at sunset. This image was taken just after the sun descended below the horizon and left a nice glow in the western sky. This time of the evening is becoming my favorite time [...]
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The first couple of days here on the Oregon coast we did not see the sun. It was cloudy and rainy, but that has not stopped me from making photographs. It has been great to get away with Christeena and recharge our batteries. We both love photographing, so this has been a perfect vacation so [...]
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