This thick birch grove is really chaotic and it made hard to come up with a pleasing composition. In the end, I found a shooting spot on the edge of the grove, shot through the many branches and twigs with a small aperture and changed the image to black and white. Sort of looks like a snowy storm.
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We may not have the marsh or swamp, but we do have the moss covered trees.
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By the looks of this image, you’d think it was shot in the pacific northwest instead of semi-arid South Dakota.
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A couple of years ago we were at the arts festival in Custer State Park, SD and decided to go for a little hike after lunch. The light was pretty harsh but the calm winds made for some really nice reflections in this small pond. I guess there are some nice images to he had even in the afternoon sun.
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What I like about this image are the random tangle of twigs that seem to frame the patchy splashes of color in these aspens.
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On the trail to Devils Bathtub in Spearfish Canyon I was intrigued by the patterns and swirls in this old dead pine log. One problem with hiking with my camera is that I never seem to make it to my destination.
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Am I being too romantic to suggest these two birch trees are locked in a lover’s embrace?
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I shot a similar image at this location a year ago on the trail to devils bathtub in Spearfish Canyon, but there are a few differences this time. The circle of swirling leaves is tighter due to the fallen birch branch and the constraining effect it has on the whirlpool.
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Many places in Spearfish Canyon give me the impression that the fall colors are cascading down the canyon wall like a water fall. This would be the base of one of the falls.
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Upper Rough Lock Falls in Spearfish Canyon is much more visible from one of the platforms on the trail since the forest service remove the vegetation that was blocking it. Just in time for the fall colors.
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The hills and meadows in Spearfish Canyon look like a rain forest this year because of all the wet weather we’ve had. On a dreary, misty and foggy morning an atmosphere like this can evoke many moods; for me it’s a time to reflect about the seasons past and the coming autumn and winter.
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The setting sun creates an ominous scene as it lights the bottom of these storm clouds. I never get over the infinite variations clouds and light create as weather conditions change.
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I promise, this is the last Alaska vacation picture I’ll post. I do like this image though. I think it’s a fishing boat and it suddenly appeared out of the fog as we were cruising up Glacier Bay. The small icebergs are testament to the glacial activity we’re getting closer to.
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Misty Fjords National Monument in Alaska definitely lived up to it’s name on the day we cruised this magnificent scenery. Towering mountains rising from the sea, rain showers producing hundreds of waterfalls and the low misty clouds all working together to sculpt this reverent place.
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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.
