Tag Archives: amateur

Deadly Hunter

When you look at this photo, what’s your first thought? For me this picture shows the unleashed and raw power of the snowy owl. The extremely focused eyes and the last adjustments the snowy owl is doing shows how efficient and skillful the owl is. The prey has very bad odds of escaping the owl, […]

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Alkaline Flats

When you look at this photo, what’s your first thought? When I look at the image, my first thought is the power of this dark barren environment that draws you into the light. What’s the background story? I was shooting there with a group of photographers and Marc Adamus showed us this area. So this […]

Freckled Faces

When you look at this photo, what’s your first thought? When I look at the photo my first thought is her eyes are captivating me and pulling me in. Her eyes are a cool blue color by nature and I really wanted to capture them and show them to everyone. I chose to convert to black […]

Rex Creek Sunrise

What’s the story behind this photo? I was camping with a group of buddies about 3/4 of the way up Lake Chelan. It was mid-December, the temperature was around 15°F, the cabin had no power, and we’d all been up late drinking and playing cards the night before. I looked out the window while drinking my […]

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Snowflake

What’s the story behind this photo? As I wrote on my blog, I’d seen Alexey Kljatov’s snowflake photo technique article and wanted to see how well I could do myself. I didn’t have a macro rail or macro light yet, so the whole thing was a little amateur. The photo is available on Getty, in their “Moment Open” collection. How […]

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McKinley Springs Milky Way

What’s the story behind this photo? I was with a group of friends participating in the McKinley Springs Winery BBQ Competition. I think it mostly turns into a drinking competition, but that’s another story. It’s in the middle of nowhere, so I brought my camera gear with the intention of doing some astrophotography. We’d been […]

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