•February 8, 2010 •
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I have been trapped in the house since Friday with a record amount of snow outside my window, 32.6 inches in the last 48 hours on top of around 7 or 8 inches already on the ground from our last snow storm. I have been keeping busy and catching up on a ton of office work and processing some images from last fall that I never got around to. This morning I awoke around 3am and just could not get back to sleep. Instead of lying around on the couch and watching infomercials on great products that are sure to make my life that much easier, I decided to get started on the day by answering a ton of emails, walking the dog in the crystalline air and going out for a ride around downtown Annapolis to see the damage done by the storm. I was considering making my out to Great Falls National Park in Virginia, but after hitting a wall of traffic on Rt. 50 from an overturned truck, I headed back to the house. While I was wondering around drinking coffee, I noticed some great crystals that had formed on the back window of the house.
I grabbed my gear and set it up in wait for the sun to come up and give me some light to work with. I was so enchanted with these crystals that spent the better part of two hours shooting a variety of compositions as the light changed. On a technical note, these shots were made with a D300, 105 Macro lens, Singh Ray LB Polarizer and shot in raw at ISO 200. I bracketed focus for each image and shot wide open at F4 to blur the background completely out of focus. I took the bracketed series of focus from each image and used Helicon Focus to blend them together for max. depth-of-field. On average, I bracketed 10 shots for each image. Enjoy!
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Tags: crystals, helicon focus, historic, ice, macro, maryland, record, snow, storm, winter
•February 4, 2010 •
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I am happy to announce our first Creative Visions workshop for 2010 in the rugged and beautiful canyon country of Moab, Utah. This workshops shooting locations will take place in Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse Point and other slickrock locations surrounding the Moab area.
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The Workshop
Looking to take your creative expression to the next level? Creative Vision Photo Workshops are designed to challenge you to reach new heights with your nature photography. Join Creative Vision instructors Ian Plant and Joseph Rossbach on an intensive, multi-day field and classroom instructional workshop that will help you create photographs you’ve always dreamed of making.
The Destination
Arches and Canyonlands National Park contain some of the most breath taking scenery in the United States. Chocked full of hundreds of natural arches, slick rock canyons, balanced rocks and wild vistas this 5 day workshop will explore the very best these two locations has to offer.
The dynamic forces of wind, water and geologic upheaval have created a landscape of extraordinary beauty and have left for us a plethora of photogenic treasures. We intend to visit as many of them as possible during visits to Arches National Park, Canyonlands, and Dead Horse Point State Park, capturing the textures, contrasts, and surprising formations of this high desert region.
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Tags: arches, canyonlands, landscape, moab, nature, photo, photography, travel, utah, workshops
•January 26, 2010 •
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I traveled to Salem County New Jersey just the other day to give a presentation to the Salem County Art League. Never knowing what the traffic will be like around the Wilmington/Philadelphia region, I left very early and arrived on site 3 hours before the start of the show. There were awesome thunderstorms earlier in the day and the sky left over from the storms was dramatic and full of fast-moving clouds. I decided to take a ride around Salem County looking for old barn and any other relics of Americana that caught my interest. Here a few of the shots from yesterday. Enjoy!
Upcoming Photography Lectures/Presentations:
Don’t miss out on our Swallow Falls One Day Winter Workshop on February 13! ~ Only a couple space are still available for this workshop!!
In this one day winter workshop in Swallow Falls State Park, we will have a chance to photograph the many frozen waterfalls, ice formations and virgin hemlock forests of the park. I will be there to guide you to the best spots, help with any technical questions, critique images and get those creative juices flowing. We may also have a chance to visit Crainsville Sub Arctic Swamp and a special are known as the bears den. This workshop starts at sunrise and ends at sunset. We will break in the middle of the day for a big lunch and warm drinks.
Follow this link to register for the workshop online. Space is limited and spots are beginning to fill up fast!
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Tags: americana, barns, country, New Jersey, photo, photography, rural, salem county, scenic, travel
•January 24, 2010 •
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A little taste of spring to warm everyone up over these cold and bleak winter months!
“Emerald Cascades” – White Oak Canyon, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. May 2009
Got up to my chest in rushing water in order to get the perspecive I wanted on this set of small falls in White Oak Canyon. This image was made on a wet overcast day in late May of 2009.
Interested in shooting some waterfall images like this, consider joining me on my “Waterfalls of White Oak Canyon” One Day Workshop this May.
Follow this link to read more about this workshop and to register! –
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Tags: nature and landscape photography, photography workshop, shenandoah national park, spring, waterfalls, white oak canyon
•January 24, 2010 •
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When I arrived in the park last week, the temps had hovered in the mid teens for a 10 days before and all the waterfalls were solid blocks of ice. By the last day of the workshop, the temps had risen to the upper 30’s and it rained for one solid afternoon creating a flash floods of melting ice along the streams and rivers in the park. In order to get this composition, i climbed out across an ice and snow bridge for the best perspective. The water was raging and a solid breeze was blowing sheets of water on the front of the lens saturating everything. I was able to get off one image without water on the lens. This image is of Elekala Falls in Blackwater Falls State Park, WV.
Upcoming Photography Lectures/Presentations:
Don’t miss out on our Swallow Falls One Day Winter Workshop on February 13! ~ Only a couple space are still available for this workshop!!
In this one day winter workshop in Swallow Falls State Park, we will have a chance to photograph the many frozen waterfalls, ice formations and virgin hemlock forests of the park. I will be there to guide you to the best spots, help with any technical questions, critique images and get those creative juices flowing. We may also have a chance to visit Crainsville Sub Arctic Swamp and a special are known as the bears den. This workshop starts at sunrise and ends at sunset. We will break in the middle of the day for a big lunch and warm drinks.
Follow this link to register for the workshop online. Space is limited and spots are beginning to fill up fast!
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•January 21, 2010 •
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Ice and lichen on a rock wall along Shays Run, Blackwater Falls, West Virginia.
Upcoming Photography Lectures/Presentations:
Don’t miss out on our Swallow Falls One Day Winter Workshop on February 13! ~ Only a couple space are still avialable for this workshop!!
In this one day winter workshop in Swallow Falls State Park, we will have a chance to photograph the many frozen waterfalls, ice formations and virgin hemlock forests of the park. I will be there to guide you to the best spots, help with any technical questions, critique images and get those creative juices flowing. We may also have a chance to visit Crainsville Sub Arctic Swamp and a special are known as the bears den. This workshop starts at sunrise and ends at sunset. We will break in the middle of the day for a big lunch and warm drinks.
Follow this link to register for the workshop online. Space is limited and spots are begining to fill up fast!
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Tags: blackwater falls state park, detail, elekala falls, ice, intimate, landscape, lichen, nature, pattern, photo, photography, rythym, west virginia, winter, workshop
•January 18, 2010 •
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I journeyed into this ice cave along Shays Run in Blackwater Falls State Park looking for a new perspective on an area that I have photographed many times over. I was so impressed witht the glow of light coming through the ice wall and the thin layer of froast and ice on the rocks and walls that I had to get my workshop group into this cave. I have a big group of 10 folks and had to bring them in two at a time due to the limited space of the interior of the cave. In order to reach this location, we had to climb down a stepe bank, cross a partially frozen stream and then an ice bridge with about three feet of show lying on top of it. I t was worth all of the effort and this was the highlight of today’s field session.
Look out for my Notes from the field: West Virginia Winter post in the next few days!
Upcoming Photography Lectures/Presentations:
Don’t miss out on our Swallow Falls One Day Winter Workshop on February 13!
In this one day winter workshop in Swallow Falls State Park, we will have a chance to photograph the many frozen waterfalls, ice formations and virgin hemlock forests of the park. I will be there to guide you to the best spots, help with any technical questions, critique images and get those creative juices flowing. We may also have a chance to visit Crainsville Sub Arctic Swamp and a special are known as the bears den. This workshop starts at sunrise and ends at sunset. We will break in the middle of the day for a big lunch and warm drinks.
Follow this link to register for the workshop online. Space is limited and spots are begining to fill up fast!
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Tags: ice, ice cave, landscape, nature, photo, photo workshop, photography, prints, snow, stock, tours, west virginia, winter, workshop
•January 16, 2010 •
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I found this beautiful grove of trees on the summit of Backbone mountain the other day while snowshoeing in the back country. I hung around until after the sun had risen high enough to crest the ridge and composed this image with the sun star.
Right now there is about 36 to 48 inches of snow in the mountains around Canaan Valley and it is a winter wonderland! I have 3 more days of shooting and a workshop to run, so hopefully the conditions will hold out!
Upcoming Photography Lectures/Presentations:
Don’t miss out on our Swallow Falls One DayWinter Workshop on February 13!
In this one day winter workshop in Swallow Falls State Park, we will have a chance to photograph the many frozen waterfalls, ice formations and virgin hemlock forests of the park. I will be there to guide you to the best spots, help with any technical questions, critique images and get those creative juices flowwing. We may also have a chance to visit Crainsville Sub Artic Swamp and a special are known as the bears den. This workshop starts at sunrise and ends at sunset. We will break in the middle of the day for a big lunch and warm drinks.
Follow this link to register for the workshop online. Space is limited and spots are begining to fill up fast!
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Tags: backbone mountain, ice, landscape, nature, photo, photography, snow, sun star, west virginia, winter
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