Posts Tagged “landscape”
Looking back on my posts for the last few weeks, there is one very common thread – it is cold here. And, That won’t change with this post. I was out riding around the other day and stopped to make an image of Lake Norfork and the HWY 62 Bridge. This image was made with…
Old man winter continues to pound us here in Northern Arkansas. We have accumulated a few more inches of snow over the last week,and there is more forecasted early next week. I am not sure when we will have the opportunity to fully dig out, but the roads were clearer today and we decided to…
This weekend my family and I took a quick trip to Boxley Valley to check out the local elk population and the fall colors. We loaded up at 5 am to make the 2 hour drive to Ponca. We wanted to arrive just before sunrise to have the best possible chance at spotting one of…
My parents visited over the last weekend, and they stayed at a trout resort just outside of town. The resort they stayed at was located right on the river. The front porch has a river view with the boat dock just a few steps away. They had a fire pit and we came over to…
Seems like an easy thing to do, just point the camera at your subject, frame your subject and if it fits; shoot. If not, zoom out or zoom in. But, there is so much more to it than that. Different focal lengths provide different looks. Wide lenses will exaggerate distances, while longer lenses will…
I was talking to an older photographer the other day. He was from the film days. The days, when everything had to be done right in camera. And, he asked me if I used filters. In film photography, filters were a very large part of the process. You used them to color balance film,…
One of my favorite destinations for photography, and best of all it was right in my back yard. The Great Smoky Mountain National Park is located in Eastern Tennessee and the western side of North Carolina. The actual park is pretty big, a little over 800 square miles. With over 9 million Tourists every…
When I lived in North Alabama we would take 4-5 trips per year to the smokies. We would get a cabin and do the extended family trip every once in a while, but most often my wife and daughter would join me in the camper. I would occasionally go primitive camping as well. I have spent quite…
Canon Elan II Canon 85L 1.2 unrecorded aperture and shutter speed. Kodak Ektar 100 Scanned with Epson Perfection V500