Changing My Ways: I always found a quasi-direct correlation between how physically free and uninhibited I felt to my flow of creative freedom. Being bogged down by equipment or committed to one location due to my tripod being setup often stifled my creativity. After years of shooting with the heavy full frame Canon system, lugging up mountains two camera bodies, three lenses … [Read more...]
Off To South Georgia and Antarctica
It was 18 months ago that we started planning the Ultimate Antarctica trip. Now the time is here, and photographers from all over the world are heading to Ushuaia where we will all join up and board the Ocean Nova for a 21 day trip to South Georgia Island and then Antarctica. We only do this trip every five years or so because it is a long trip and its hard to book a whole ship … [Read more...]
Yellowstone Mist – Two Versions
Seeing Double After recently publishing an article on doing winter photography inYellowstone National ParkI received an e-mail from photographerMark Meyerpointing me to apageonhis web sitewhere he has on display a remarkably similar photograph. Michael ReichmannMark MeyerPentax 67II with Pentax 55~100mm f/4.5 lens on Provia 100FPentax 67 with a 45mm lens on Provia … [Read more...]
Antelope Canyon
This subject is featured in the The Luminous Landscape Video Journal. One of the icons of contemporary landscape photography is Antelope Canyon near Page, Arizona. These so-called slot canyons are a unique geological formation. Access to the canyons is now restricted by the Navajo (whose land it's on), in large measure due to a flash flood in 1997 which killed more than a … [Read more...]
People in The Landscape
Photographer on The Dunes, 1997 This photograph (the web site's signature image), was taken in the sand dunes area of Death Valley, not far from Stove Pipe Wells. It was late afternoon, facing west, which started to put the foreground dunes into shadow. The sky was featureless but the haze created a layered effect to the distant mountains. Walking (more accurately … [Read more...]
