It’s 2019 and it is off to interesting start. More on this in a future blog. At the beginning of a new year, it is a common practice to reflect on accomplishments of the year past. Today, I decided to reflect on my photographic accomplishments by selecting my best photos of 2018. I took a lot…
The Many Faces of Tree
About a year ago, I was searching for a personal photography project to work on. I chose trees. Not just any tree, but solo trees that had interesting branches and twigs. I didn’t care what time of day or what kind of lighting conditions. I wasn’t that specific. Like many New Year’s resolutions, I let…
Role Reversal
If you have followed our photography travels at all, you know that the best time (and our favorite time) for landscape photography is late in the day or early morning, called the golden hours. White Sands National Monument has been on our photography bucket list for a few years, ever since we photographed our first…
Blastoff!?!
You may have heard about the incredible amount of Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. If you did, you are either a birder or a photographer. There can be tens of thousands of these birds that take residence each year from November thru February while on…
DUMBO
We are in New York City, the greatest city in the world. On the schedule is fine dining, see a Broadway show, and engage in our favorite pastime. Dumbo We started by photographing Dumbo. It’s not the elephant but a neighborhood of Brooklyn, just over the Brooklyn Bridge. The specific location of choice is quite…
The Icelandic Marshmallow
Iceland’s national animal is the Gyrfalcon. It’s national flower is Mountain Avens. We also discovered it’s national confectionary. It is the marshmallow. They are everywhere, hanging out on hillsides, farms, and along the roadside. Each type, designated by its color, has their own personality. Some of them are confident and extroverted while others are timid…
Timing is Everything
Vik is the southernmost village in Iceland, home for about 300 Icelanders. This may seem small to you and I, but it is the largest village for over 70km around. This doesn’t really matter to me. What does matter is it’s gorgeous seaside landscapes, ready for us to photograph. And, as you will see, timing…
Foss
One of the things Iceland is known for is it’s many waterfalls (“foss” is waterfall in Icelandic). They are so plentiful, it seems as though everyone has one in their backyard. Some fosses have a large cataractagenitus (mist), some have a plunge pool, some turn into a cascade, and some are segmented. There are many…
Foggy Faroe Islands
We woke up a bit foggy as the ship’s fog horn blared all night. We were supposed to dock in the capital, Torshavn, but heavy winds forced our ship captain to divert us to Runavik. Runavik is a small a town with barely 4,000 inhabitants, a little more than one-tenth of all the population of…
What is a Sea Stack?
We were scheduled to give a photography presentation during prime time on Monday. On our cruise ship, prime presentation time is just prior to the restaurants opening for dinner (7:00pm). We were schedule for 6:30, almost guaranteeing a large crowd of hungry viewers. Kathryn and I had been spending some of our cruise time getting…
