exploring nature’s infinite connections
What??!! A week has gone by and I haven't posted about any bears? 🙂 Well, this post certainly breaks that bad streak. Of course I am still editing and processing images from Alaska. This particular image has a lot of qualities that I like about it....
This is one from the archives - a leaf photographed by the side of river at Bridal Veil falls in Tinker's Creek Gorge in Ohio. This is a pretty cool area to work in because the shale creates all sorts of interesting lines, shapes, and surfaces. The bigger bonus...
It is somewhat ironic that I am writing this post as a following to my last one that reviewed a Photoshop plugin, but I think there are some important points to be made . It seems every year we have new terms to add to the modern photography dictionary. It seems...
I previously wrote about a nice Photoshop plugin from Topaz Labs called Topaz Adjust in these posts. It remains one of those plugins that I tend to use as a playground to explore possibilities. Sometimes it works for a particular image, sometimes I don't care for...
The waterway that separates Kodiak Island, Alaska from the Alaskan peninsula and Katmai National Park is called the Shelikof Strait. Our captain during our bear trip indicated it has a nasty reputation for some very serious storms. Thirty foot seas are not uncommon...
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you...
Before my trip to Alaska, I made a post about some photos I had hoped to obtain. They weren't really based upon anything other than my imagination running wild. I had never been there before, so they weren't based on much education about the place either, what...
With only 2.5 days around Denali, I suppose I had to be prepared for never actually seeing the highest point in North America. Cloud cover, rain and fog were all my enemies of getting a peek. This is one morning from within Denali National Park, with a clear view...
For the past few years, it seems whenever I took a fall color trip - I was a bit early, or a bit late. The colors are always nice, but you miss that absolute peak time. As I mentioned in my previous post, my Alaska trip started out in Cantwell - primarily for its...