Last weekend, during a trip to Boston, we got a chance to drive out to Reading, MA to spend an afternoon with Caren and her family. Caren is a good friend from business school, and I had never met her husband, Evan, or her children. They were as fantastic as Caren, and I documented the good times with a few images. Naturally.
Another weekend, another flight. This time to Rocky Mountain National Park. While I was there, I decided to practice as much landscape photography as I could….and a little HDR technique. Here are some of my favorites. You can mouse over the pictures to get some details on how each image was created. I’ve uploaded them as a lightbox gallery so that I could make them larger than usual.
Brilliant
Being an old school photographer that goes way back before digital was even a possibility on anyone’s mind, I find your photography wonderful and refreshing. So often the photography being produced today is just about what can I do with it after I’ve snapped some picture. You have an excellent mix of pre-visualization with enough digital post to add a wow factor without it becoming the whole purpose of the image. I love your work!
I love these – ESP. The NYC street shot. Bio , machine, concrete all ensnarled w colors and heat. Really good.
Sarah and I met at SFO on the way to Europe. In 2006. And we haven’t seen one another since. Small world coincidences worked their magic, and she asked me to take some photos of her this weekend, which I was more than happy to do! The shoot basically amounted to our first (and only, I suppose) in-person catch-up session. The weather was typically summery for San Francisco….blustery, 60’s, and foggy. But we still had lots fun. And who knows, we might hang out again before another 4 years passes.
Last weekend, a couple of friends and I made the trip to Boulder Colorado to participate in a workshop led by the incredible Tyler Stableford. To say that I love his work would be a huge understatement. I can’t remember in which magazine I first saw his work, but it was a few years ago, when I was just stumbling into photography. If you haven’t already clicked on the link above, you owe it to yourself to spend some time perusing his site. It is amazing.
What I wanted to get out of this workshop were some tips on working with clients and models, some of his processing secrets, and maybe some great shots. But Tyler was so great about taking time to understand where each of us were as photographers and encouraging us to push that boundary. For me, that meant thinking much more about the story that my image composition tells, how each element in an image either enhances or detracts from that story, and developing a process for arbitrating the two. If you cannot already tell, I loved it. I got so much more out of the weekend than I anticipated. And I’m planning to attend Tyler’s next workshop in Arches National Park!
Can’t help but shake my head and simply say….AMAZING, and that still doesn’t give what I wish I could say justice, because words sometimes just can’t convey the emotion evoked from such images, but that is what my limited vocabulary can come up with…breathtakingly beautiful images.
Thanks Matt. I appreciate your feedback….especially when it’s positive!!
Dana, your shots are amazing. Mind blowing. That one of the runner striking the ground coming toward you is epic. well done!
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