LightandShadow

Great clarity and rich tones.

Nice and sharp on the moon. I have had 0 success including foreground so well done there too.

Thanks. I have a t-shirt: “Photography 90% Trial and Error, 10% Pretending I Meant To Do That”

I thought he was frowning. One of my friends says that the chipmunks terrorized the students at her college the way they fearlessly ran underfoot.

Interesting choice on your part to leave this uncropped. The wall on the left and the foreground shadows gives me a sense of your lurking while a crop that reduces the foreground would focus attention on the “waiter”. The result makes him larger (less anonymous and a “type” rather and person) and reduces your presence as observer. That choice…[Read more]

Thank you for your vision. Your passions are a good part of what results in stunning photographs.

When you post for sale, do you include a statement that “all proceeds go to…” and either name specific charities or include a generic “stop child trafficking”?

Whoa! Stark and scary. The scene needed that human for scale. Well done.

Ansel Adams didn’t take what was given. He spent days working on images in the darkroom to produce his finished pictures, rendering iconic landscapes, investing an empty piece of paper with the interest and potential that he saw. That’s what landscape photographers do.

They also tend to choose their scenes more carefully, waiting for good lig…[Read more]

Interesting. Some of your photos here of architectural details appear as almost abstracts of shapes rather than something most people would see when looking at a building.

Yep. Thin trees, ground cover that hides messy fallen debris help woodland scenes a lot. Looks like cloudy conditions helped keep an even exposure. You might wish for warm dappled light and/or mist. Landscape photographers sometimes wait for hours hoping the light will change.

The valley below this spot was once reputed to have the most annual rainfall in the US. So, the lush is earned.

When you’re standing on the balcony of your lodging and know that you won’t be faced with an all day rain event, it ain’t so oppressive.

One of the hard things in landscape photography is that by its nature, the scenes tend to be large making it hard to render a subject amidst all of the confusion. That’s especially hard in woodland scenes. I’ve watched a half dozen videos in YouTube where the pros worked heavily wooded scenes to find and create an ordered image out of the chaos.…[Read more]

I was confusing “thread” with “throwdown.” Sorry.

I’m not clear on the intent of the thread.