A Photo Story

On a whim, I took this creative photo of a waterfall.  I achieved the abstract effect by zooming in while the shutter was open.  I looked at the photo on the LCD screen and decided the experiment didn’t work and moved on.  Looking at it on my large monitor I see potential for abstract art.  [...]

Top of the World Panoramas are my favorite landscape photos because you can print the photo very large and still keep all the detail.  When I hike to the top of a mountain, like I did here in Olympic National Park on the Lillian Ridge Trail, I always try to capture a panorama image.  It [...]

At Peace This photo was taken during a hiking break on a bridge.  Since we were staying there for a few minutes, I decided to play with the camera.   Just looking at this photo makes me feel calm and relaxed.  At the time, the sun was starting to dip and we were enjoying the quiet [...]

I took this photo while backpacking in Olympic National Park.  I found it much harder to take creative photos while backpacking than I had originally thought.  So, I was really happy when I found this photo.  I read once that to take photos of trees, crop out the forest floor.  By taking out the floor, [...]

Taking photos of landscapes can be harder than most people think.  In order to make your photo of a landscape more interesting than the guy next to you, you must change your angle or perspective.  Make the photo interesting and people will want to look at it. 1.  Use the rule of thirds Put the [...]

Over Memorial Day weekend I went backpacking in Lake Mineral Wells State Park located just west of Forth Worth, TX.  I was surprised to see a wide variety of flowers in bloom.  The prickly pear cactus flower was one of them.  We hiked past quite a few with flowers in varying stages of bloom.  I [...]