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
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 Northwest, the Eastern Sierras, the California Coast and five countries in Europe, here is a look back. All of these shots were either taken or processed in 2017. If you are reading this, thank you so much for visiting my blog! A very Happy New Year to you! Looking forward to 2018!
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
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…
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 look hard enough, you can even find spots that face the East. If you want to shoot the sunrise in SoCal, your widest choice of locations would occur
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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 headed out of my driveway at 2 AM to make a stop at the Alabama Hills for a quick sunrise shot before heading across to Yosemite via the 14, 58 and 99. By mid afternoon,
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 the El Cap cut off and Swinging Bridge. It is still unclear if the NPS will allow photographers to fan out on the North side or to explore along the river bank between the South Side and the North in areas that provide a view of the Fall, but trying to cram the expected onslaught of 2000 photographers into the El Cap Picnic area seems like a spectacularly bad idea. Additionally, there will be no parking down near the El Cap Picnic area other than those with handicapped plates. Everyone will need to walk upwards of 1.5 miles down and back from parking areas East of Yosemite Lodge. If you are planning to shoot the Firevall this year, bring lots of patience and get there early. The hundreds of photographers who poured into the South side last year will now be forced to come North and no one really knows if everyone will have a view if and when the fall lights up.
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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 problems for the park rangers in Yosemite who had to close the park twice in one month due to flooding concerns as well as rockslides due to the heavy rainfall. Having to deal with tire cables, road closures and delays on my two recent trips to Yosemite were definitely a pain, but the opportunities that were waiting for me when I arrived were just too good to pass up.
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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 Sunrise to Sunset in a “Day in the Life” format. Here’s a look back at 2016:
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 with mixed results. The tide was much too low and I wondered if I came back on a day closer to the actual solitce if I would have better light.
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