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The wildflowers are emerging!
We really had a strange spring in the Central Oregon Mountains. It snowed 3″ last Thursday and that’s after some days that were almost 80 degrees.
While it can snow anytime of the year here, it looks like the warming is here to stay and with that comes that summer wildflowers. We don’t really have spring wildflowers. They arrive in June and leave in August depending where they are located.
The back of my property has Shooting Stars all over the place and I plan to photograph them shortly, but thought I would share some images form wildflowers along the Deschutes River from last July.
These are starting to show and I hope to get there and see what’s out and hopefully photograph in the next week or two.
Here are some more shots as well:
The Cascade Center of Photography will be conducting a seminar called: Exploring the Business of Outdoor Photography, June 29th – July 1st, 2012, in Bend, Oregon.
If you have a passion for outdoor and nature photography and wish to make money and even a living at it, this seminar covers all the territory. Many photographers have very marketable images, but no idea how to get them to market, let alone, into a clients publication. The business is competitive and the sooner you learn how to shoot for the market and who buys your photography, the sooner you can realize a profit. But if you have no experience, where do you start? This workshop will show you how
I am pleased to find I won a Bronze Award in the Epson International Pano Awards.
Actually, I learned of it a few weeks ago, but just now having time to mention it.
A Bronze!
Gold-Silver-Bronze. That’s third place! Awesome!
I wonder what prize I won so I logged onto the site to determine whether I got a free camera, lens, printer, or whatever. I came away with a smile on my face and was chuckling.
If I was an Olympian my Bronze would be third place and I would stand on the podium with the Gold and Silver winners. I can’t wait!
Capitol Reef National Park in Utah is without a doubt one of my favorites parks to photograph. I have been there many times and and even taught a workshop there once and I got to thinking about it as I archive some of my photos from there.
This is not a park that is heavily over run by people and photographers like Zion and Bryce. Yet, in my option it offers a more diverse landscape for photography with some remote locations that are quiet stunning.
I have been there many times, I have yet to reach some of the furthest reaches of the park like the far southern end around the Halls Creek Narrows, but have photographed quite a few locations within the park. There are many great places to shoot like Capitol Gorge, the schoolhouse, and more and I have shot them all, but these are my 5 favorite places to shoot:
1) Chimney Rock
You cant miss this location because it is right next to the highway with a large parking area. You can get close or some great angles from across the highway as well. I think sunset is the best time.
I love this park! It is in North Dakota and is noted for its history and badlands, a landscape I love to photograph. I have not been there in years and would love to make it back and soon.
This formation is known as a Cannonball Concretion and I cant tell you anymore what process forms these, but they make for a great foreground. This is one of my last trips using a 4×5 view camera. I will always miss that!
My next online classes start this Friday. Learn Flash Photography, Portrait, Commercial Lighting, and Architecture.
I went to this meeting and I was the only who showed up. All six of me that is. This is a simple composite of 6 images with myself in each spot, then stacked and masked together in Photoshop.
Every once in a while I meet a great person and get all excited at the prospect of photographing them.
That happened the other night when I was teaching an Introduction to Portraiture at the Cascade Center of Photography in Bend, Oregon.
The school proprietors: Christian and Regula Heeb, had arranged this model for the workshop and when it was time to do some demos shots of her for the students to see lighting, I thought: “wow”, this is a very photogenic person.
After the workshop she stuck around for a few minutes and we shot a few more images and discussed more shoots in the future.
I used two large light boxes and then some skin softening in Portrait Professional before a B&W conversion in Topaz B&W Effects.
I was in one of the old homesteads in Cades Cove in the Smokys photographing the inside for HDR when these hands started creeping out of the floor. I could not believe it and snapped away.
It was like they were trapped and wanted out or something. I had to really work this in Photoshop to get them to show up more and here is the result.
Have any of you photographers seen this as well? By all means please share your ghost stories.