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Taken when everything was closed because of the pandemic. I used the horizon glow to give him a halo.

A tiny little shard pokes through the surface ice on a bitterly cold sunset shoot on Lake Baikal

Portrait of a young eagle hunter, captured inside his ger.

A holy place, never mind exactly where, where spirits lurk

Taken in the Little Sea area on a sunny, bright day at -30ºC

A wonderful sunset in early spring in Alamo Canyon, Organ Pipe Cactus NM

Old miner's cabin in the Chuckwalla mountains, near Corn Springs, California

A warm June evening with some old friends

Full summer sun about 8AM, Mt. Whitney through the portal

When the wind dies down, the dunes "sing" at night with a low bass moan

Salt Creek tributary surfaces on the salt flats, reflecting the sunrise light on the Panamints

Twilight shot of the delicate colors of the Belt of Venus offset by the rich earth tones of Ubehebe Crater

Several large sculptures decorate the desert north of Borrego Springs. I tried to get the Milky Way coming out of the "dragon's" mouth,

Late afternoon light on the Eureka dunes balanced by the Last Chance Range

Late afternoon shadows on the Mesquite Dunes evoke schools of porpoises playing

Late afternoon mysteries at Valley of the Moon

Vesturhorn 30x20

A rare bit of sun in mid-February, before the next blizzard blew in

A rare bit of sun in mid-February, before the next blizzard blew in
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Apr, 2018

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Top Shot Award 21

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Top 10 class

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Behind The Lens

Location

This was taken at Vestrahorn, on the Stokksnes peninsula, on the southeast tip of Iceland, during late winter. We got lucky and had a bit of a sunny break in between snow squalls blowing in off the North Atlantic. A lot of the beach was covered in ice.

Time

Late afternoon.

Lighting

Getting late afternoon sun on the mountains was amazing, given the stormy weather.

Equipment

Canon 5Dm4, Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 lens at 16mm, gitzo tripod and head. Shot a panorama using the lens in portrait mode, which gives it its unique spatial distortion.

Inspiration

Even though this is a "bucket-list" kind of shot, the actual locale is raw and gripping, since the storms come in right off the North Atlantic. I wasn't happy with the standard landscape shots, and I wanted to get the curves of the tufts of grasses on the dunes. I think it is impossible to capture the sheer scale of this landscape with a single shot.

Editing

Mostly just panorama-stitching.

In my camera bag

Canon 100-400mm F/4-5.6, Sigma 14mm f/1.8 for astrophotography, Tamron 150-600mm lens for wildlife, remote shutter release, intervalometer, sometimes I use CP or ND filters, sometimes I use CamRanger or similar when shooting things like Milky Way, meteor showers, timelapse.

Feedback

Find someplace you love. Learn its moods. Learn when it reveals things through the light. There's a saying, you never step into the same river twice. Similarly, I think you never take the same photograph twice.

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Vesturhorn 30x20

A rare bit of sun in mid-February, before the next blizzard blew in

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Location

Time

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In my camera bag

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Vesturhorn 30x20

A rare bit of sun in mid-February, before the next blizzard blew in

Views

Likes

Awards

Top ClassTM

Submitted to Photo Contests

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Behind The Lens

Location

Time

Lighting

Equipment

Inspiration

Editing

In my camera bag

Feedback

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