Toledo Gallery Show

Caddo Lake, East Texas

Time for the annual gallery show to benefit 1Matters.org, an organization that works to provide provide domestic autonomy.. I wil lbe posting more about this show in the coming weeks but you can learn more about 1Matters and the show by clicking the link below.

1Matters.org

Last year I presented music images and this year the show will consist of landscape work, a good many from our National Parks.Also including images from the iPhone4s and more traditional cameras. It becomes harder and harder to use the term 'traditional cameras'....

Stay tuned to this show as this show will be traveling for the rest of the year...

Death Valley Sunrise

Sunrise, Death Valley

'How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!'....John Muir

Yosemite National Park

Yosemite - Homage to Ansel Adams

There are times when you just have to do it......

I was in Yosemite last year  standing near the spot where Ansel Admas exposed the image 'Clearing Winter Storm', on film of course. Ansel's image was one of the primary reasons I started getting serious about making images.

Today's image was captured on February 2, 2010. This being the first anniversary of the image I decided it had to be posted. Of course my image is missing the clouds and the fog amongst a few other bits and pieces.

Thanks to Barbara Myriam Ventura for the new sharpening workflow.

Red Rocks

Red Rocks National Park, Las Vegas, Nevada

Arrived Vegas yesterday, rented a car and headed out to Death Valley for a couple of days. Bought a new camera, an Alpa SW, and thought I would take it out for a test drive in the desert. Since I had to be in Vegas on Thursday this seemed a perfect short adventure.

On the way out of Vegas saw a signpost for Red Rock National Park and headed off in that direction. Never really knew there was a National Park so close to Vegas. Another one crossed off the bucket list.

Lots to learn about this camera still but here is the first image. More the camera in tomorrow's blog - have to run and off and catch the sunrise at Zabriske Point.

Zion National Park

With my impending trip back to Zion next week I though to post this image from my first trip last November. November was the first time I had ever been in one of our National Parks and since then I have completely embraced this  American heritage. At the moment I am watching Ken Burns 6 part series on The National Parks and it truly is America's Best Idea.

I must admit the first trip was completely overwhelming to me both in the technical sense and even more so artistically. Basically I had no idea how to approach capturing the breadth and width of Zion - I am quite sure this is the same as someone visiting New York City for the first time and being overwhelmed by the scale of the new surroundings, the difference being that New York is man made and Zion has been around for millions of years.

Since then I have been able to visit  Death Valley, Yosemite and the Redwoods of Northern, California and have a plan to visit all the others in due course.

Anyway, even though fraught with a few technical glitches, here is one image from Zion. Hopefully on this next visit I will have the opportunity to re-capture this image with some newly learned skills.