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Some time ago in a post titled Consuming Color I pondered the question, “What if color were your subject?” in contrast to black and white photography where the underlying thought is that color distracts from your subject. Over the past several years I’ve been exploring a new dimension of nature and landscape work where identifiable elements of the natural world are abstracted to bring color to the f

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Badlands National Park Detail Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. Badlands National Park in South Dakota is an abrupt transition between the prairies and the mountains. Erosion has created an amazing tapestry of color and texture that is as beautiful as it is rich in history. I was surprised at how ph

Ever see an odd pixelated square graphic like this one on a web page, print magazine or as someone’s social media site avatar? If you haven’t yet I guarantee you will now. This type of graphic is called a QR Code and something you’ll want to take note of and to creatively use in the future. What is a QR Code & Why Use It? QR stands for Quick Response and essentially are bar codes, a different va

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! – John Muir El Capitan, 3000 feet of vertical rock, is a sight to see. Even more amazing is that if you look closer while visiting the park you will often see rock climbers scaling the face or sleeping the night before resuming their climb on El Capitan, as was the case on my last visit this past weekend (full image for scale – see the bottom left of th

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Two Medicine Lake, Glacier National Park Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. Two Medicine Lake isn’t as well known as Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park, but it is equally beautiful. Waiting for sunrise to light up Mount Sinopah the blue hour set in and I was blown away by the serene bea

One of the most beautiful things about photography is that it’s limited only by one’s ability to visually explore. In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams As Yogi Berra as it sounds if you’re not looking, you’re not seeing and there is so much to photograph when you’re seeing. This weekend I’m looking forward to

During my most recent trip to Yosemite I was struck by how many people I came across had a camera. Virtually everyone had a camera in fact. Some were enjoying themselves, some were strangely aggravated as they worked, some were rushing and many were curiously sizing up the person next to them getting the exact same photo. There was not one location I traveled to that did not have a group of photographers staked out p

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Mesquite Sand Dunes, Death Valley Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. You wouldn’t think that order and chaos would ever blend together, yet sand dunes seem to portray both. Sand dunes possess order in the patterns at a micro and macro level, while their formation is chaotic and random from the

When you think of Yosemite you’re more than likely going to think of the iconic Valley View lookout, as seen in my Yosemite Valley Snow post, but Yosemite is full of so many amazing subjects that are commonly overlooked. Simple scenes such as the one below are all too easily missed as people rush from one lookout to another.  Great nature experiences are still easy to come by in Yosemite you just have to explor