From the Archives “Eastern Influences”
A few years ago, I wrote about the struggles I was having as I moved more to an asymmetrical composition style and simplification of my images. The influences of Eastern art were in my mind, but my composition progress was difficult. Today, I can find these...
Landscape Photographers Whose Images Inspire Me
I have spent about half my life being passionate about landscape photography. For that reason I’d like to share the work of a selection of landscape photographers whose images have had an important and positive influence in my life. Inge Bovens – Gathering...
From The Archives – Quotes Filled With Inspiration to Laughter
A few years back I wrote a blog with 46 quotes related to photography and outdoor recreation that either I found inspirational or some simply made me laugh. I find good quotes are fascinating. What started off as simply a comment in a interview, a line in a movie or...
Changes to Popular Oregon Wilderness Locations
Over the last few years we have definitely seen more and more discussion regarding the increased traffic at many locations frequented by photographers and other adventure seekers. I know we have covered this to some extent on our Photo Cascadia blog in prior posts. I...
The Myth of Influence in Photography
“Geodescent” by Erin Babnik, Death Valley National Park (2019). CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE. Creating a high-quality photograph of sand dunes in Death Valley was no small accomplishment in 1932, the year that Willard Van Dyke produced his dunes image that now ...
Looking Beyond Locations in Landscape Photography
“A double rainbow, all the way! What does it mean?!” (Paul Vasquez, in a viral YouTube video of 2010) A famous pair of Greek maxims inscribed over the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi urged visitors to nurture self knowledge and to exercise restraint: “Know...
Your Hard-drive Will Fail… Eventually
4TB External backup drive and assortment of compact flash cards. Yes, I do still shoot intentionally at times with small sized cards! As Tom Keifer of wrote on a hit ballad in 1988, you “don’t know what you got till it’s gone”. You really...
From The Archives – Forget About Dawn and Dusk
An afternoon of stormy skies and splashes of sunlight in Southern Utah I wrote these two blogs back in 2012 so they are definitely near the bottom of the archives when it comes to the blogs I have created on Photo Cascadia. Here we are seven years later with this...
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