Tree Portrait-Dolly Sods National Recreation AreaHello! I am very excited to announce that the registration for the "Mountains of Color" fall photography workshop is now OPEN. Please review the website and if this workshop looks like one you would like, please register early and secure your hotel or camping accomodations early as spaces are filling up fast. This is one of the golden times to be in the highlands of West Virginia. Not only will we be in the midst of beautiful scenery, we will be learning some great photography approaches and developing friendships with fellow photographers. It is a great fun learning environment. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me. I hope you can join us for this great weekend of beautiful photography.
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Student Gallery Now Open
I am very excited to open the new "Student Gallery." Here is where we will present images by students from our workshops. Today we see the images from Bill Carey and Dennis Hanson added to the gallery from the recent Flowing Water workshop. It was a pleasure meeting both of them and working with them in the field. We all learn something from each other while photographing.
The two galleries are quite interesting in that Bill tended to work with wide and normal lenses while Dennis preferred to work with telephoto lenses. It is a great example of how the similar scenes may be interpreted entirely differently by individual photographers with different gear. Please take a moment to peruse the images and I hope you will join us on a future workshop so that we may add your images to the gallery as well.
Autumn's Brilliance
Autumn's BrillianceDriving to The Mountain Institute on Spruce Knob I was captured by this view. It takes a very special scene to get me to stop and work it photographically, but this was the most intense autumn scene I have ever witnessed. The crystal clear transparency was giving way to a blazing late evening sun which was providing the unbelievable back lighting on the leaves and surrounding forest. I only hope I have depicted the scene half as well as the scene looked in reality. It was the most intense display of light and color I have ever come across. The print is titled "Autumn's Brilliance" and is the October Print of the Month. I hope you enjoy the image and the print. Please be sure to click on the image and then click on the thumbnail for a larger presentation in a portfolio black screen viewing mode for greatest viewing effect.
Elakala Falls with Black and White Interpretation
Elakala Falls in Black and WhiteI consider Elakala Falls a wonderful fall for black and white interpretation. Delicate streaming flows of water provide a graphically interesting scene that works well in a monochromatic presentation. Elakala Falls in Black and White is now in the Water Portfolio.
Mountain Light
Mountain LightContinuing to work on spring mountain images and finalizing workshop information. This image is from the valleys in the highlands with wonderful mountain light on fields of spring wildflowers. You may see the full-size image in the Appalachia Gallery.