Five Prints in “The Great Certainty” — Current Show at The Ansel Adams Gallery

I am very grateful to The Ansel Adams Gallery for including five of my photographs in the exhibition that opened this week in Yosemite Valley: “The Great Certainty: Photographs Commemorating 100 Years of National Park Stewardship,” August 6 through September 10. A great variety of photographers are represented in this exhibit, and I feel honored … Continue reading Five Prints in “The Great Certainty” — Current Show at The Ansel Adams Gallery

A Photograph Exposed: Technique and Interpretation in Post

(“A Photograph Exposed” is a series exploring some of my photographs in greater detail.) If you follow this website you may have seen this photograph before — it is one of two that were the subjects of an earlier article (“A Photograph Exposed: One Subject, Two Compositions“) focusing on compositional decisions I made when I photographed this Sierra Nevada subject. In this … Continue reading A Photograph Exposed: Technique and Interpretation in Post

A Photograph Exposed: One Subject, Two Compositions

(“A Photograph Exposed” is a series exploring some of my photographs in greater detail. A companion article looks at post processing issues related to the same subject.) Landscape photographs depend on many things: good fortune to be in the right place at the right time, experience that helps predict when and where to find “right place at the right time,” … Continue reading A Photograph Exposed: One Subject, Two Compositions

A Photograph Exposed: “Shoreline Reflections, Trees and Rocks”

(“A Photograph Exposed” is a series exploring some of my photographs in greater detail.) This photograph is a personal favorite for a bunch of reasons related to how the photograph came about, the experience of making the photograph, associations with the place, and a print that pleases me a great deal. I maintain the no photographer’s work is wholly original. What … Continue reading A Photograph Exposed: “Shoreline Reflections, Trees and Rocks”