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As is my ritual I’ve compiled my best photos of the year. Similar to last year much of my efforts have been focused on stoking my 5 year old son’s curiosity about nature.  It would be very easy to focus on my photography, but the reason I pursue outdoor photography is because of my deep appreciation for it. I’d like to pass that on to both my boys and with that in mind most of my outings this year w

This is the 2nd of a 3 part series on my experience jumping back into film photography after a 10 year hiatus focusing purely on digital photography. You can start here at Revisiting Film Photography After 10 Years: The Readjustment if you missed it. Mental Math & Visualization As I’ve been shooting with the Fuji GX617 I’ve had to make a bit of a mind-shift in my approach. On one hand I have to accoun

This is the 1st of a 3 part series on my experience jumping back into film photography after a 10 year hiatus focusing purely on digital photography. The Camera 10 years ago I vowed I’d never shoot film again. I enjoyed shooting film to a degree, but compared to digital it became unnecessarily onerous. Back in the day I was shooting 35mm and medium or large format photography was both imposing and expensive. As

If you’ve followed my blog for several years you’re likely to have noticed a marked difference in what I’ve been posting and how frequently. Much of this has to do with a philosophical shift I’ve taken since my oldest son arrived in 2010. Before I’d likely mow through locations and scenes at a pace that might make some heads spin. My appreciation for the landscape never waned, but my abi

It’s almost that time of year again when Fall Color reappear. Here in California that happens on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains causing a modern day gold rush, except this time the gold is the golden hue of Aspen leafs and the prospectors are photographers. I have to admit I never got into this early in my photography career, but as time wore on I started to appreciate it more. The funny thing

A couple of years ago I had an amazing time atop the White Mountains in Eastern California taking time-lapses and star trail photos. One of my favorite shoots was capturing the Milky Way above the weathered and worn Bristlecone Pine trees. This was one of my favorite sequences. Note this was posted on Instagram. For additional sneak peeks at my time-lapse and landscape work be sure to follow me there @jimgoldstein. B

Sometimes a short break in the clouds is all you need… along with a lot of patience, a nap in your car, and a notion something might develop out of nothing. All that being said the Sun and the clouds do the hard part in these situations.  While waiting for conditions to unfold the hardest part is fighting the nagging doubt that you made the wrong call on where to shoot.  This self-doubt is particularly potent w

This weekend an interesting OpEd hit the New York Times titled Rethinking the Wild,  The Wilderness Act Is Facing a Midlife Crisis. If you haven’t read it I highly recommend you do, as you’ll hear much of this narrative in the coming months and years as various forces continue to try to chip away at it to weaken it if not undo it. The Wilderness Act of 1964 did something amazing, it protected 9.1 million