I can’t recall how long ago it was that I came across my first photo of Lake Bled in Slovenia. It was almost certainly on 500px as several photographers began posting shots of this remarkable lake right about the time that I began posting on that site. I knew immediately
Author: William McIntosh
A Look Back At 2017
I meant to post this yesterday, but it looked like we might get some great light in Death Valley so my buddy Eric and I spent New Year’s Eve driving like maniacs down to Cottonball Basin to catch the sunset. After a year of crazy trips and long hours driving though the Southwest, the Pacific […]
Looking For Autumn In The Dolomites
On Saturday, October 14, I finally landed in Munich Germany. It was a good four hours later than I had planned after British Airways bumped me from my connecting flight. When I finally made it through to the baggage area, I was literally
Autumn In The Alps, 2017
On October 12, 2017, I set off on a trip that I had been planning for over two years. Back in 2015, some of my photography buddies and I had just come back from an amazing Fall trip to the Canadian rockies and the obvious question was…
Shooting The Sunrise On The Southern California Coast
When most people think of photographing the sunset and sunrise, they would tend to agree that the East Coast is the place to head for sunrises while the West is limited to sunsets. What many folks may not realize is that quite a bit of coastline, especially in Southern California, faces South, and if you […]
Epic Spring Runoff In Yosemite Valley Creates Rare Opportunities For Photographers
A couple of weeks ago I was catching up on a pile of work on my computer when I came across an LA Times story describing how the Merced River was approaching flood stage due to the heavy run off from the record breaking snowfall earlier in the year. A few hours later I was […]
Looking For Fire At The Horsetail Fall (Updated 2/5/17)
UPDATE – FEBRUARY 2020 – The NPS has announced a rather draconian step in shutting down the entire South Side Viewing area for the last two weeks of February in 2020 due to the actions of some careless photographers who trashed the area last year. No cars will be allowed to park or drop off passengers between […]
Winter Storms Have Created Rare Photographic Conditions In Yosemite
After several years of drought here in California, we are finally having a true rainy season this year. Over the past few weeks, a series of storms rolled through our state providing much needed water for our reservoirs and snow in our local mountains and the Sierras. All of this extra moisture has caused some […]
A Look Back At 2016
This is the third year that I’ve put together a video to look back over my shots from the entire year. Included in this video are any shots that I posted either here on my blog or on my other social media sites. This year, Instead of posting them in chronological order I posted them from […]
Tips For Shooting Big Sur’s Pfeiffer Beach
Around this time last year I posted an article detailing the annual pilgrimage of hundreds of landscape photographers who have been making the drive up to Big Sur each December in an attempt to catch the magical light pouring through the keyhole arch. My last attempt was in January of 2015 and I came back […]