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Hot Pink Azaleas, Mobile, Alabama
Azaleas, rhododendrons, I love flowering shrubs and trees. These azaleas, photographed at Bellingrath plantation garden near Mobile, Alabama, were a color that tested the digital camera’s ability to record. It’s almost surreal. I underexposed a bit to bring out the darker tones of the purple, and moved in with the camera on a tripod as […]
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival: A Weed
We call them “weeds,” a different colored tulip in a batch of other colors. This was taken at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in Washington State near Mt. Vernon, one of the largest tulip festivals in the world.
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival: Tulip Picker on the Horizon
A spotted this tulip picker on the horizon in the pre-dawn light of Mt. Vernon, Washington, during the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. With the brightening sky behind him, I was able to underexpose the image to create a semi-silhouette effect, a dramatic image of a Mexican collecting the tulips up to put into boxes and […]
Yellow and Purple Tulip Closeup, Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
I love the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival and have many years of photographs from its bountiful rainbow of tulips. This one is from the 2007 festival, a very gray sky and wet few weeks. We always bring our full camera gear, different tripods, lenses, everything we can to get the landscape views as well as […]
Behind the Scenes: Lacy Trees in Winter
Winter is one of my favorites, and trees coated in snow is top of the list. I captured these ancient trees along the pond at the farm in Gaston, Oregon, where we stayed the first two years back in the Pacific Northwest. Their twisted and gnarled branches were perfect for creating a lacy effect with […]
Photography Patterns: Putting the Spin on Tulips
I love patterns and shapes, inherent in nature as well as manipulated. A favorite manipulation is to spin the camera at a slow shutter speed when photographing flowers, specifically brightly colored flowers like tulips, creating fascinating whirls of light and color. In this series, I was working with tulips from La Conner, Washington, and the […]
End of Camera Making Era for Kodak
The Times Online reports “Kodak to Finish Camera Making”, news that Eastman Kodak will stop making cameras. Eastman Kodak is to stop making cameras, marking the end of an era for the manufacturing business started more than a century ago by George Eastman, the photography pioneer. The troubled photographic equipment maker is to outsource its […]
Adorama Academy: Online Photography Workshops
Adorama Academy is the online “photography workshop” program for the popular camera equipment and supply store. They have expanded their online educational programs and feature some top notch photographers and experts sharing their expertise in photography. Highlights include: Focus on Landscapes Clean your DSLR sensor Create the illusion of depth in landscape photography 10 common […]
Sunset and Forest Fires
Driving up towards Yosemite National Park in California, the sunset turned incredibly intense. Recent forest fires had left particulates in the air which turned the sunset intense reds and oranges. Brent VanFossen quickly pulled over, looking for any subject to frame as a silhouette against this vibrant backdrop of color and found he was in […]
Arabic Books in the Markets of Istanbul
I recently stumbled across this photograph I took in one of the many markets of Istanbul, Turkey, and I wanted to share its story with you. We love photographing markets. Everywhere in the world we travel, we look up open air, covered, above ground, underground, and ancient markets. Fish markets, cheese markets, meat markets, clothing […]
Photographing Water Droplets
Risk. Danger. Anticipation. And nerves of steel. These are the thrills and spills of photographing water droplets. There is a constant threat of danger as they dangle, so close to the edge, hanging on until the last second…then splat. Gone. We love photographing water droplets. They are lenses within your lens, offering a new perspective […]
Nikon D80 New 10.8 Megapixel Digital SLR Camera
Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide, announces Pics of Nikon D80 Leaked Accidentally on Purpose. To be launched August 9th, 2006, the new 10.2 megapixel Nikoin DLSR D80 will have some great bells and whistles. From the pictures, you can plainly see the new model will be called the Nikon D80, not the D90 as some speculated. […]