Sep 26, 2010 | Landscape Photography
One of the coolest aspects leading my own workshop brings is the opportunity to explore new locations with good friends. That’s what DLWS is all about!
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DLWS is in New Hampshire and the staff has been scouting, sighting seeing, and just blown away but what we’ve seen. It’s just gorgeous!
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With a little time leftover, we decided to take the historic Mt Washington Cog Railway to the top of Mt Washington. The fall color along the route was spectacular.
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It’s one very steep ride up and it takes 45min to climb the 4000 vertical feet to the top. While not the best shooting platform, it is slow enough to allow you to work the scene.
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Hanging literally out the window, I simple watched the foreground for obstacles and when there were none, I blasted away. The light was dancing across the landscape lighting up all the color.
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Just look at that valley, it’s gorgeous! There isn’t a whole lot out there about this area so you might not have heard of it. You’re going to see a whole bunch from here this week as DLWS shares it with its participants. Get you map out, check out Mt Washington Valley and stayed tuned. A lot more beauty is coming your way!
Photos captured by D3x, 24f1.4AFS, 70-200VR
Sep 15, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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On our way back to our lodge tonight, Jake noticed to the east as we made a bend in the road the hillside a blaze. Brush fires scare me, had to fight one once and we live in a location where we take fire very seriously. So when I saw this, I cursed under my breath and wished the fire fighters going the other direction God’s speed.
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Then the dilemma flashes by, the art in the disaster that is unfolding. Jake and I found a location quite a distance from the fire in a lot where we could shoot with our 200-400s. For an hour we watched and shot. The smoke was in many ways was like photographing a creek where it’s the patterns in the bubbles that make the blur so cool. So I ripped the shutter and came back with 800 images I’m still wading through. These are just a couple cool ones, there are more. I’m so happy to report that the fire was brought under control and no structures were lost. Simply put, fire fighters rock!
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Sep 10, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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With that amazing sunset now a memory forever exposed on the thin emulsion our mind, we piled into the truck and headed to Vegas and Photoshop World. I guess the week of tranquility finally got to Russell. After a stop at Starbucks, Russell was ready to light up the town. The only problem is, the town we hit was Seligman, a locale we’d visited together a few times.
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Even though this was a repeat visit, there is one place we’d always wanted to visit but never had and that’s the famous Snow-Cap Drive In. It’s a true Rt 66 treasure and the food don’t suck either! I mean the fries we good, the burger was killer but the shake, of the shake was to die for! But eating was only half the experience, ordering your food was the other. Here the owner (sorry, forgot his name) loves to have fun. He starts by greeting you with a gag mustard bottle that when squeezed, yellow string flies out. He got Sharon with that even though she had just seen it. He does other things as well, but don’t want to spoil your fun. But when you order a shake, be ready to shake hands. And sums up our week of colorful places, colorful folks and good friends. Can’t ask more from photography!
Photos captured by D3s, 24f1.4AFS on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 9, 2010 | B&W Photography, Landscape Photography
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“Moose, I didn’t know you can run!” You’d be surprised what I do for the photo!
Sep 9, 2010 | Landscape Photography
The clock, the bastard just never stops ticking when I need it to. Hard to start walking back across the dunes and to the truck. I never took my eye off that cloud as I went. I got back to “the” dunes and the color took one last leap into gorgeous.
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With calls of hurry up floating across the landscape, I looked one last time to see this. There was no way of knowing 45min earlier that we’d even have a single cloud let alone this magnificent one. The wind storm off in the west kicking up a huge dust storm put enough particles in the sky for the killer color. What you see here is what I saw. Other than the camera set to Vivid, the processing was simply holding down the Shift Key and letting ACR do its stuff.
How many amazing photos go uncaptured because time is not invested? How many images go untreasured because the wrong guess is made that nothing will develop? There is nothing I hate more then to see a great sunset in the rear view mirror. Because of that lesson, seeing that great sunset behind me, putting in the time just comes naturally now. The rewards even if I don’t get the click are too great not to put in the time. In this case, I do have the click to share. I was very lucky, again!
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
Sep 9, 2010 | Landscape Photography
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You might be seeing this and saying to yourself, “That Moose is one lucky son a gun!” And you’re right, very, very fortunate but guess what, this is not the photo I wanted! Seriously! In the time it took from the last photo to this, we walked, no I ran 80yards across the sand dune to get to this position to make this shot. A thunderhead that was about 3-4 miles off and towering way into the sky ended up falling apart and was blown into the background you see here. And when did this all happen? Just as the sun set and the color came in. Wow, how lucky was that? Well the photo you see here is a 5frame HDR, yeap, taken handheld with a PC-E lens. That wasn’t luck, that’s good old fashioned well practiced hand holding technique. And even with this while thrilled with the turn of events, I wasn’t satisfied. I had lost the sand dunes from this position. I wanted that element. Would time play out?
Photo captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film
