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...
Creating Mood With Water
Shutter speed of 1 Second to create water streaks One of my favorite subjects to photograph is water. Using different shutter speeds on your camera, you can create a diversity of different moods. Some of the best examples that involve water are waterfalls, creeks,...
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...
A Brief History and the Rich Tradition of Oregon’s Landscape Photography
Crater Lake Showing Wizard Island by Peter Britt/photo commons public domain. I’ve often been asked, “Why does the Pacific Northwest have so many good landscape photographers?” Well, the scenery certainly has something to offer a landscape photographer and maybe part...
Some Thoughts on “Grit” and the Landscape Photographer
You’ve heard the term “grit.” It seems like it’s everywhere these days; from podcasts and radio to magazines, to pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth’s bestselling book “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.” What is it? How do we get it?...
How To Fix Dreaded Polarizer Sky
Wide angle sky polarization before and after fix The circular polarizer (cpl) is one of the most useful tools in landscape photography in my opinion (FYI – I use Breakthrough Photography filters and I am one of their ambassadors but this is not sponsored...
From The Archives – Photographing Wildflowers for Impact.-Kevin McNeal
For the Photo Cascadia 10th anniversary, we’re revisiting some of the blogs you may have missed the first time around. With wildflower season in full swing I thought a photography blog about photographing wildflowers would be fitting. I hope you enjoy it and...
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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