Off to Colorado!

It’s 3:30am and I am bleary eyed and leaving for BWI to depart on my Colorado Trip. I should have my rental and meet up with fellow MTP (Mountain Trail Photo) photographer and good friend Ian Plant around noon MST.

Today we will drive north to Pawnee Buttes National Grassland. I plan on shooting the buttes at sunset and then saying up to do some nightscapes. After a quick sunrise shoot, we will have to leave immediatly to get up to Rocky Mountain National Park to set up camp and then meet the workshop group at 2pm and kick off the workshop with a meet & greet. Wish me luck and be sure to stop back often for trip reports and new images from the Colorado Rockies.
Joe

“Lower Doyels Falls” Featured on Natures Best Magazine Blog

Lower Doyels Falls

Originally uploaded by Joseph Rossbach(www.josephrossbach.com)

Lower Doyles River Falls, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

You can check out the post here: http://naturesbestblog.com/2009/07/02/flickr-photo-review/

Mirror on the Atlantic

Mirror on the Atlantic

Originally uploaded by Joseph Rossbach(www.josephrossbach.com)

Sunset along the Atlantic Ocean, Cape May, New Jersey. After the storms rolled through, I was rewarded with an amazing display of light along the beach just north of Cape May. I used a 3 stop graduated (hard) ND filter to hold back the exposure in the sky. I waited until after a wave came up and washed back which created a mirror reflection in the wet sand. Nature simply is mazing!

Workshop Announcement: Great Falls National Park, Virginia

Great Falls National Park, Virginia
July 24-26, 2009
Instructor: Joseph Rossbach
Tuition: $525

Click here to register

Repeat 2009 workshop students are eligible for a 15% discount!

Great Falls of the Potomac River is one of the scenic wonders of the Mid-Atlantic where kayakers and Great Blue Herons brave the thundering rapids of the Potomac River. we will have a weekend of grand landscape photography, wildflowers and waterfalls. Each morning we will head out to some of my secret locations along Mather Gorge. In the early morning, we will have a chance to photograph the wonderful display of wildflowers in Algonquian Park as well as small waterfalls and cascades along Difficult Run & Scott’s Run Preserve. As always the afternoon are filled with critiques and classroom work on post processing techniques. After a short break, we re enter the park to photograph Great Blue Herons and then finish each day chasing the light and clouds above thundering rapids and waterfalls in Mather Gorge.

“Woods & Water” Photo Essay Published in Blue Ridge Country Magazine

Coneflower Abstract

Coneflower Abstract

Originally uploaded by Joseph Rossbach(www.josephrossbach.com)

Moving the camera in a circular motion over the course of 8 exposures. In camera multiple exposure on the Nikon D300. I paid careful attention to keep the center of the flower in the same position during each shot to maintain detail.

Please visit my website for more images, workshops,prints, books and much more: http://josephrossbach.com/

New Review of the Nikon D3X

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwf2RShNV0

Be prepared to laugh out loud! :-}

Old Friends, Shenandoah National Park

Old Friends

Originally uploaded by Joseph Rossbach(www.josephrossbach.com)

For years I have been attracted to this old snag in Shenandoah National Park and for years the light and clouds never worked out for me. On my last trip into the park on the last day of the workshop, I took the group down to this spot. As the sun rose it illuminated the underside of the clouds floating by. I shot at f22 to get the sunstar and used a 2 stop ND grad to open up some additional detail in the mountains. I cropped this shot to 4:5 ratio to remove the empty space on the right of the composition and better balance the photo.

Island in the Sky wins “Image of the Week”

Island in the Sky

Originally uploaded by Joseph Rossbach(www.josephrossbach.com)

“Island in the Sky” wins “Image of the Week” at Naturescapes Online Magazine!

Naturescapes Online Magazine

Fire on the Mountain

Fire on the Mountain

Originally uploaded by Joseph Rossbach(www.josephrossbach.com)

I made this image some 5 years ago in the Indian Peaks Wilderness of Colorado. I had a request from a private collector for a 24×36″ print just last week, so I had it drum scanned and have completly reworked the file. Here it is!

Oh by the way, I will be hitting this location next month while on my trip to Colorado in July. I can’t wait!