Tag: vacation
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.15
Sorry, I lied! Here’s another one. I liked the concept of the barren tree on the cliff, descending into fog, and gave it another try in this shot. I thought…
May 27, 2009
The Family
And here’s “The Team”. Just one family member (and one family feline) missing! The Colorado River, I decided, was central to the trip. It should also be prominent in the…
May 26, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.13
And the light returneth! Huzzah. I wanted to capture the cloud obscuring the nearby ridge (center/left), and the strong sense of the canyon moving toward the dark clouds (center/top) –…
May 25, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.12
I love this shot. I love the striations of the cliff leading to the chasm. I love the dark storm brewing over the far end of the chasm. I love…
May 24, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.11
This shot is a second attempt at one from a few days ago. Again, it’s about the Colorado River. Not quite as riveting as the previous attempt, but I really…
May 23, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.10
Sadly, the light left me to wander down the canyon. With a little foreground light, this would have been an awesome shot. As it is, I think it’s passable.
May 22, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.9
There are a few interesting pieces to this shot. As a whole, I don’t like it as much as the past few days’ shots – but I think the clouds,…
May 21, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.7
This shot – its colors, the sharp contrasts, the canyon, the scrub brush – all grab me. There’s so much going on that I want to figure it all out.…
May 19, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.6
The colors caught my attention in this shot. The more cool blues in the background against the warmer reds in the foreground gave me the depth I wanted, and the…
May 18, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.5
And this is the start of the “perseverance” in the title. As we moved around the south rim a bit, the clouds slowly climbed upward and gave us some spectacular…
May 17, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.4
A shot of the sheer drop-off. Trees clinging tenaciously to the top of the cliff, blanketed in snow – my least favorite of these shots, but I thought I’d put…
May 16, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.3
Not too far from the previous shot, I wanted to try for a more “natural” version of the same thing – no railing, no signs of humankind – just an…
May 15, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.2
More Grand Canyon in the Snow. This is the view nearly straight down, by the outcropping yesterday. The way the canyon wall curves around the outcropping, with increased fog density…
May 14, 2009
Grand Canyon Perseverance No.1
One of my favorite things that happened on my recent trip to the Grand Canyon: snow! Near-total white out in the canyon itself led to some fairly unusual shots of…
May 13, 2009
Stargazers
A long exposure, best viewed large. I’m not too fond of the grass in the foreground, but it does give some extra depth to the shot.
May 12, 2009
Angry Over Arizona
Driving from New Mexico into Arizona: the landscape’s not much different, but boy did that sky get angry.
May 11, 2009
MSS
It’s been a while since I posted an abstract. This one is from Santa Fe, NM. The cloud peering out from over the wall caught my attention. And as I…
May 9, 2009
Tall
I couldn’t resist the simple beauty of these tall trees in Bandelier National Park, NM. Especially with a 16mm lens.
May 8, 2009
Jewels
From the date, I think this was in Santa Fe, NM – a very cool window display. I couldn’t resist borrowing this piece of it…
May 7, 2009
Stick
Something about this stick, and the shadows behind it, grabbed me. This is a composite of three hand-held exposures, composited via photomatix pro.
May 6, 2009
Karate Kick
I don’t remember if Jake was mad at me, or just demonstrating his deadly karate skills – either way, it made for some fun photography!
May 5, 2009
Hambone
Hambone is a blues performer in Taos, NM. I ran in to him on the street and spent a little time with him, talking and taking pictures.
May 4, 2009