Dogwoods are out in full swing this week in Yosemite. The second shot is a meadow view of Yosemite Falls in HDR. The next is my favorite shot I got of the Dogwood. It’s 10 feet from a parking lot at the Ahwahnee. Next is the interior of the Ahwahnee. It’s probably the best lounge…
There are not many places on earth as awe inspiring as Yosemite. Normally people photography is where I spend most of my time, and it’s always fun to show a sense of place with my people and event photography. Most of the same concepts apply to landscapes. Color contrast, removal of distracting elements, getting texture…
No flash portrait of my wife and youngest daughter on a hillside filled with my favorite flower, the poppy. Black and white treatment is out of Lightroom. This is as simple a portrait as it gets, kind of an old school flavor to it. No flash this time. Near Folsom Lake recreational area, there are…
Taken at night from the pier below the bridge (and Joe’s Crab Shack), this frame was hard to get. I had a hard time getting far enough away with the 24-70 (maybe time for the 14-24?) to get the whole thing viewable. 1/20th of a second at f8.0, ISO250 at 24mm. About 15 minutes after…
Night photography is one of my all time favorite types of photography. Long exposures somehow make things more interesting. You can always count on exposures over 5-10 seconds to show you things that you normally would not see when looking through the lens. Colors start to pop, motion blurs into cool patterns, and things just…
