Luminous Landscape Video Journal – Issue 3

On Location: Bosque del Apache
• Michael & workshop members photograph tens of thousands of snow geese as they take off at dawn. They also photograph the beautiful antics of sandhill cranes in this world-renowned wildfowl refuge on the Rio Grande, New Mexico

Dunes & Marshes
• Dunes & Marshes. Finding a subject in your backyard: the quiet beauty of sand dunes and nearby marshes in Prince Edward County on the edge of Lake Ontario.

Reviews: Canon 1D MK1, A Look at Lenses, Gimbal Mount, Petzl Zipka
• Canon EOS-1D review
• Canon 400mm f/4 DO Super Telephoto review
• Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS Zoom review
• Lit only by two headlamps in the dark of pre-dawn Bosque del Apache, Michael extolls the virtues of the Petzl Zipka.
• The Wimberley Gimbal Mount review

Interview: Cheryl Opperman
• An on-location interview with wildlife photographer Cheryl Opperman.

Technique: 4 x 5 Wildlife Photography.
Alain Briot takes a tongue-in-cheek look at large-format wildlife photography!

Assignment Competition: Cloudscapes

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.

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