Here’s yet another from my ice photography session. This particular chunk of ice was a little downstream from some small rapids that produced a lot of bubbles. As the bubbles got trapped underneath this piece of ice they froze solid into the beautiful pattern you see here.
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Here’s another from my afternoon out photographing ice. I really liked the mixture between pebbles and ice in this particular section of the creek.
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With the unusually cold Virginia weather we have been having lately, I took a quick trip up to Maryland near the Potomac River to photograph some ice I had seen a few days earlier. It turned out to be one of my most successful trips photographing ice, with many amazing patterns found around each new bend of the creek.
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Doing a bit of a throwback to the days of summer and Colorado. When I first arrived home, many of my favorite images featured dramatic light and expensive views. However, as time has passed, this one particular image has really stuck with me as a favorite. Despite pink clouds in the sky and mountain ranges in the background, I decided to focus on this small tarn with its beautiful shapes, patterns, and colors. Over the next three days, my favorite area in West Virginia is slated for 7-13 inches of snow. I think it’s time to bust out the warm clothing and make my first “winter” trip of the season.
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I had a great time seeing all of my NY friends and family. Didn’t get much time in for photography, but I did stop quickly by Oneida Lake to take some pictures of the clouds from this sunrise as I was on my way to see my good friend Eric Dresser. Still waiting for the snow to begin falling. It’s brown, brown, brown around here.
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A quick post before I hit the road for Upstate New York for Thanksgiving. Looking forward to seeing family and friends! This image was taken this autumn in Groton Woods State Park, Vermont. By tightening my ballhead down halfway, I moved the camera in a straight line during the relatively long exposure, creating this pan blur of graphic white trunks and beautiful autumn color.
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As Joe and I were heading out of the High Peaks area, it was a clear, cold, and windy day. Without any interesting clouds, and the light too harsh, there wasn’t much landscape photography to be had. However, as we were driving along beautiful Roaring Brook, we found a section of the stream that was in complete shade, with the distant yellow autumn foliage lit up by direct sun. Needless to say, it created the perfect opportunity to photograph abstract reflections among the many boulders and rocks strewn about the brook.
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Deciding on the bright idea to catch up some much needed sleep the previous afternoon, I awoke this morning to look outside to suburbs full of beautiful fog. CRAP! The time was 7:30AM. Trying to salvage whatever I could from this opportunity, I ran out the door without eating any breakfast to head to my most wanted location, Scott’s Run Nature Preserve. Unfortunately, Scott’s Run is about 45 minutes away without traffic. It was rush hour. Plan B kicked in and I decided to head to the oak forests of the Manassas Battlefield only 5 minutes away. The oak forests aren’t quite as photogenic as the bright yellow beech forest I wanted to photograph, but I still had a wonderful time walking beneath these old giants in the fog.
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This one is from the same morning as my previous post. I really liked the colors and the blue within the shadows. The blue color, which is reflected light from a clear sky, is often picked up on “film”, and often processed away in Photoshop by photographers. While I do this regularly, sometimes I prefer to leave the blue cast, particularly when parts of the scene are lit with direct, warm light.
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Here is another from my trip up to Vermont this fall. While the clouds never really lit up this morning, the mist rising from the water and intense backlit conditions once the sun crested over the distant mountains provided some amazing views. This small island provided just the right element to keep things interesting.
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Autumn color has definitely dwindled here in Northern Virginia. While I wait for the snow in this transitional period of brown, here is an image from my October trip to Vermont and the High Peaks. This photograph was taken after two days of heavy rain, courtesy of Tropical Storm Nicole. Finding beautiful fallen leaves on the forest floor, I arranged them here on a nice piece of birch bark. While autumn color is mostly done, I’m still waiting for the beech forests to turn yellow, and plan on making another trip to them early next week.
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Here’s another from my wonderful day trip to Shenandoah National Park. Most of the leaves in the higher elevations had fallen off, but here in this tiny section I found one of the most amazing combinations of lichen, tree trunks, and color that I’ve ever had the pleasure to witness. By standing far away and using a telephoto lens to compress all of the trunks together, I managed to show most of the scene without any distracting elements being able to creep in. Many people prefer a simpler forest scene, but I really love the organic, messy feeling of a forest with lots of “stuff” going on.
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I’ve been processing a lot of images today. This one is back from my Colorado / Utah trip this summer. Unfortunately, my bff Alex and I had just broken down (the whole wheel came off) about a mile up the road where this was shot from. We were in the process of walking down to meet a tow truck when this incredible light happened. No light on the foreground or distant mountains … only on the amazing fins. The light was really this red. Easily one of the most impressive sunsets I’ve seen!
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I took a quick day trip to Shenandoah National Park a few days ago during our nice rainy weather. My initial plan was to photograph waterfalls in the overcast conditions, but as I grew closer to the mountains I noticed that there was some nice fog action going on in higher elevations. And so, I made the choice to gain elevation and head up to Skyline Drive. I ended up missing out on any waterfall photography completely, but I think it was worth it.
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I spent all day out scouting and photographing what little fall color we have here in Northern Virginia. Maybe that’s a bit cynical, as there are spots of really beautiful color mixed in here and there. Either way, being out on this warm autumn day was a treat. In this photograph, I decided to try some pan blurs of some beech trunks. The color is still about a week away for this particular stand of trees, so I decided to try out some pan blurs. I particularly liked the result of this one. Tomorrow, I head to Whiteoak Canyon in Shenandoah National Park to photograph some waterfalls.
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This year I spent 10 days in beautiful Vermont helping friend and photographer, Joseph Rossbach by assisting his workshop. I had a ton of fun and it was great learning the workshop ropes, as well as meeting some really great people. Good work was produced by all. This particular image is of Moss Glen Falls, perhaps the most photogenic of all Vermont waterfalls, on a crisp rainy day. Autumn is winding up here in Northern Virginia as well. While we don’t have much of a “display”, I plan on making my way to several local forests to catch the Beech forests in all of their yellow glory. Hoping for some fog!
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These secretive, cute, alpine hares were surprisingly one of my favorite animals of the whole Colorado trip. Nope, no Elk or Bighorn Sheep for me … just the strange antics of these little guys. They live in boulder fields at or above treeline, and spend the entire short summer harvesting alpine grasses and storing them underneath rock ledges to dry out. During the winter, they stay awake and eat all of the grass that they have accumulated, at times supplementing it with lichens. I wish photos could do justice to the cuteness that is the Pika, but sadly they can’t 
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The processing continues! This image is from the top of Mt. Evans, CO. We saw about 5 kids roaming around, never far from their parents. I thought the adults were great, but these kids brought it to a whole new level! The weather was really interesting up there – this relatively intense flurry passed through at about 4 PM in the afternoon, when it was about 40 degrees out. In July. During the following days, the summit received about 6 inches of snow!
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It’s been a while – sorry about that! Since getting home I’ve had a strong urge to relax a wee bit, and the idea of editing and processing my Colorado trip photos is a daunting one. No worries – I’m excited to do it and hope to get a good chunk done today. For now, this is one of my first newly processed images. This beautiful male Eared Grebe was found on a small prairie lake in northern Colorado. It is easily my favorite grebe I’ve had the chance to see so far.
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This image is from this morning, which was probably one of the most spectacular sunrises or sets of the whole trip. The whole sky lit up pink at one point. While I didn’t find this particular tarn with abundant wildflowers until after the sun had been up for a few minutes, I still liked the strong backlight and sun in the frame.
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*Processed on laptop.
