As we cruised up glacier bay in southeast Alaska, it was doubtful we would get any kind of look at the Margerie Glacier because of the dense fog we were experiencing, but as we approached the fog began to lift and this magnificent panorama slowly emerged. Shooting a 5 shot pano from the deck of a moving ship was challenging to say the least and it took several tries. This is the one I was most pleased with.
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My wife Sherry and me took a cruise to Alaska recently and one of the first stops was to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau. A photo can really ever duplicate the experience of actually being there, but this is my best attempt.
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At Devils Tower National Monument I kept hearing the theme from the movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” as I was capturing this multi image panorama, so I put myself in the last panel and waited for the space craft to appear but, alas, nothing. I don’t know where the music was coming from exactly; somebody watching the movie at the campground? A ranger presentation perhaps? I never found out.
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While walking along the trail to Spearfish Falls on a misty and foggy morning I spotted this little pine bough at the bottom of a spruce tree and liked the way the soft and diffused light was separating the needles from the darker background.
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This is another image from my night at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. It was a mostly cloudy evening I was waiting for it to get dark and I was getting concerned that the sky may not clear, so when I saw a small break in the clouds, I started shooting. In my last weeks post I got a clear view of the milky way, but in this one, not so much. However, I like the horse shoe shaped formation in the foreground which becomes the main subject in the composition.
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This was my first attempt at night photography since I had my Canon 5D III camera astro modified. This was a single shot captured at Badlands National Park in South Dakota with about a 30% crescent moon setting in the west. I liked the way the landscape has a red/orange color cast, reminds me of some of the images of Mars I’ve seen from NASA.
I recently took a drive to Badlands National Park to do some nightscape photography and while looking for a shooting spot the terrain and sky got very dramatic, but the only big boy camera I had was my astro modified Cannon 5D III, so I had to settle for my phone camera. The results aren’t too bad (IMHO)
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At least for me anyway. Due to the wet weather we’ve been having lately Bridal Veil Falls was visible as I approached the turnout from the north, so I immediately stopped my truck and captured this intimate image through the foliage with a long lens.
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This image of the Milky Way rising above Savoy Pond and the Black Hills of South Dakota was made with the aid of an illuminated cabin yard light just out of frame to the left, thus the warm color cast on the pines.
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My wife Sherry gave me the idea for the title of this image saying that the brush plants look like buffalo. I suppose thinking about what a herd of buffalo would actually look like grazing in this meadow I can imagine the similarities.
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Getting all these aspens to line up and get them all in the composition was a little like trying to take a large family portrait at a reunion.
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These brush plants, the way they’ve randomly sprouted, remind me of a maze. Just for context, they reach heights of probably 9 to 10 feet tall and if they covered a very large area, you might have problems finding your way out once you entered.
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What caught my eye in this image was the way the trees seemed to be growing in layers and also the delicate tree trunks and branches which were still visible in early spring since the leaves were just beginning to bud out.
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This image was captured in the little hamlet of Savoy in Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota. The morning sun had just crested the canyon rim and was splashing golden light on the pines while leaving these cliffs in deep, cool shadow.
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I do some real estate photography for local agents and that has kept me busy this week, so this weeks blog post is from a home I shot in west Rapid City. I had to climb a little to get this image, but it illustrates that you can be in the city limits and still have that home in the woods feel.
I was born and raised in central Nebraska and still have an affection for the landscapes there. This image was made at a small way-side area just off the Loup river near St Paul. It had been windy for several days before I ventured out, but on this morning the conditions were absolutely perfect to capture these cotton wood trees reflected in a small lake.
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This is my humble attempt to capture the Aurora that was visible a few weeks ago in South Dakota. Didn’t have to work too hard however since my back deck has a clear view to the northern sky.
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I was reviewing some old photos and came across this image of a grove of aspen trees I made in the fall of 2022. The leaves were quite glorious in their autumn shade of yellow, but since there wasn’t any directional light to add contrast, I converted the picture to black and white. The silver color of the leaves and tree trunks now contrasts nicely with the dark background.
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This image was made on the same morning at Bear Butte State Park as a similar image I posted a few weeks ago, but from a slightly different position. I like the patterns and textures and the sky was cooperating nicely, but I went with a black and white version instead because the color version reminded me too much of a cattle feedlot after a hard rain (if you catch my drift)
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This image was made on a wintry morning from Lookout Mountain looking south towards the Black Hills. What I liked about the scene was the way the shapes, lines and textures lead the eye up through the hills and forests where Spearfish Canyon was eventually carved. While the walls of the canyon aren’t visible from this vantage point it’s easy to imagine how the forces of nature all worked to make this beautiful place.
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