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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