Places
When visiting Europe, it is easy to get pulled in to wonderfully expensive destinations in the French/Swiss Alps, Greek islands, Norwegian Fjords, and others like this, but there are still some hidden gems. There still exists a less expensive side of places like the Mediterranean where you can still get sparkling seas and delicious food without the hefty bill.
Read MoreThe United States offers brilliant locations that landscape photographers around the world put on their bucket lists. It is for good reasons that these locations have become as popular as they are now, but with the increasing popularity comes some bottlenecking in locations not being able to handle the volume.
Read MoreOver the summer, I went on a trip to Kauai to photograph the stunning Napali Coast. This was mostly a honeymoon dinner cruise on a yacht, but I was allowed a few moments to photograph the coastline during it which I am very grateful for! The result was one of the most challenging, exciting, and exotic landscape photography experiences I have ever had.
Read MoreIt has been about two months now since I went to the Hawaiian islands. I wasn’t there for a photography trip, but I did manage to capture a handful of images while I was there.
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As is the state of our outdoors due to a massive increase in popularity, this is an important topic to discuss. Through the influence of social media and its various personalities and brands, we have seen a spike in the number of visitors to our wildnesses, parks, and iconic spots. Unfortunately, the level of education, awareness, and negligence/disrespect that the newcomers bring is having a disparate impact on our public lands.
Read MoreI would expect most already know that we are currently in the longest partial government shutdown ever in the USA. With the current political climate, there isn’t an end in sight yet either. This is unfortunate for many reasons, but I would like to focus in on what this means today and going forward with our public lands.
Read MoreThe cluttered forest has its own benefits because making even the slightest sense of it can create an impact. It also forces you to be very deliberate in where you place the tripod because an inch off or using the wrong focal length can change the compositions significantly!
Read MoreI wanted to sit down really quick today and post something that sums up my best work of 2018, and go into a little detail of why I like each image. I have become more picky with what I shoot and what I consider a portfolio worthy image, so hopefully this will be a marker of that progression! This should be a bit more “off-the-cusp” than my other articles on here, but there will be a new one of those tomorrow to start out 2019 as well!
Read More“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.”
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
There are plenty of examples of cliches in photography. Most of them stem out of portrait photography, and I give my fiancé plenty of schtick for getting High School Senior Portraits on a couch in a field. Aside from couches in fields and railroad tracks which have recently plagued portraits, there are cliches in landscape photography I prefer to avoid.
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