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The Hawaiian landscape is a pretty incredible sight. One of the more notable locations is the Na Pali coastline on the island of Kauai. Whether looking from a boat or high up on the cliffs, it makes no difference. Odds are when you catch a view of this area you’ll have to close your mouth after your jaw drops. On this particular outing this shot was my last. High surf and looking through my camera with a teleph

Just the other day I rediscovered a batch of photos from Kauai, Hawaii that I never got around to processing. It was a pleasant surprise to find these images not just because they came out well, but because of the great memories behind them. Up very early I caught this scene just before getting into my car to drive to a Na Pali coast boat tour. The day as a whole was quite beautiful and now seeing this photo along wi

One of the longest standing challenges facing photographers has been working with photographic media that inherently has a lower dynamic range than what we, the photographer, see with our own eyes. This challenge has spurred a lot of innovative solutions enabling photographers to push film and digital media to their limit. These innovations have included various darkroom techniques for film, graduated neutral density

With wildlife photography luck is always part of the equation, but you never know how or when it will come into play. While in the Arctic last summer I had the good fortune of photographing an Arctic Hare that was resting in the shade to avoid both the sun and predators. Although the hare was stationary its ears were twitching in order to keep a small swarm of mosquitoes from biting these blood rich organs. I only to

Photographed near the Crystal Springs Watershed in San Mateo County an hour or so before sunset. The stark lighting conditions attracted me to this scene, the beams of light in particular. [tags]California, San Mateo, landscape, photography, photo[/tags]

Dynamic range, in relation to photography, most commonly describes the light sensitivity range of a photographic medium whether slide/print film or a digital sensor. Unlike other definitions of Dynamic Range I think it’s important to discuss the relationship of the human eye and brain and what we determine as the standard of dynamic range. The eye is in all intents and purposes a sensor that can detect texture,

This was one of the first photos I took with my Canon 16-35mm ultra-wide lens. Using a film SLR I was able to capture the full effects of the barrel distortion (a type of perspective distortion) at 16mm. The result was the intentional illusion of the lighthouse tower leaning towards the moon. Over time I’ve developed a fondness for this type of lens distortion to create a sense of tension or place emphasis on a

A couple things happened this past week that got me thinking it might be a good idea to talk about landscape photography and choice of focal length. 1. I read “What’s Your Favorite Focal Length?” by Brian Auer I found the question that Brian posed to be a bid odd and never made a poll selection on his blog entry. The question of what your favorite focal length isn’t really relevant, just as as