Since we are now under two weeks before our group outing in Glacier National Park I wanted to share some prior images and thoughts from previous visits. Further Reflection This image was made just after the one from yesterday’s post . It’s a good example of my belief that nature never does anything just once. […]
Since we are now under two weeks before our group outing in Glacier National Park I wanted to share some prior images and thoughts from previous visits. Sometimes I wonder whether success in any creative art is more dependent on the singer or the song? That is to say, is it really the photographer or […]
My best solution for the chaos of the rainforests on the Hawaiian island of Maui was to go wide and low angle. This afforded the feel of being engulfed and surrounded, as I was in reality. The overhead canopy was even more engaging than the dense growth on the floor but it was very difficult […]
The rain forests on the island of Maui were something I was not prepared for. They give direct and immediate meaning to the phrase, ‘you can’t see the forest for the trees!’ The clutter and disarray was at once both beautiful and daunting. Finding detail everywhere made the seemingly easy job of composition almost impossible. The deeper I went […]
On Maui at Haleakala crater the pre-dawn set-up is simply a circus. A deserted park during the day becomes a Disney-like carnival well before first light. People arrive as early as 4 AM and the park rangers become parking lot attendants stacking cars in deep rows in the dark. People coming from the tropical warmth down below […]
Headlong, I plunged three miles down into the Haleakala crater. The trails were deceptive in the same way the distances, scale and scope were to photograph. As a tourist on foot I was overwhelmed and began to mostly document what I saw. Everywhere I stepped there was evidence of volcanic upheaval. The silence was deafening in effect. […]
The wonderful thing about life is that we never know! We create this crazy illusion that we control our lives, yet when I think about it, I realize how little is planned and how much is serendipity. In my quest to see and photograph in all the National Parks, I find myself still twenty-one parks […]
Of the 6 days and 5 nights spent in the park, our visibility of Mt. McKinley — or Denali as most now refer to it and now the official name — was more like 95%rather than the 30% that most experience. In mid-Summer first direct light is about 4 AM and seems to last for […]
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