Lilies of the Water
After finishing up Megan’s portrait photography shoot at her house in Washington, DC last Sunday, I headed back to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens for another hour to get a few shots of the lilies by themselves. The garden land was initially bought by a guy named W.B. Shaw, who farmed water lilies in the marshes as a [...]
Great Falls Sunset: Vision Doesn’t End with the Click of the Shutter
I’ve been contemplating the image-creation process this week, as I work on a series of images of Great Falls. I thought I’d share some of my musings about the three essential steps to great image-making: Step 1: Defining your vision for the image and the message you want to convey, be it beauty… drama… majesty… [...]
Prepping for My Next Next Exhibit: Of Fairytale Kingdoms
Last weekend, I was prepping for my next next exhibit, picking out the 10 images, figuring out what sizes I’ll print them in, and drawing out the schematic of their placement. My next next exhibit will be at the Arlington Public Library, Central Library Branch in Virginia, and I’m calling it, “Of Fairytale Kingdoms.” Since I just [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 13: Arches National Park, End-of-the-Road
Alas, this is our last morning in Utah before heading home to Washington, DC, so we definitely had to get up for the sunrise. Of all the places we’ve seen around Moab, I must say that Turret Arch by the North and South Windows is my hands down favorite. It’s where we started on Day [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 12: Arches National Park and Behind-The-Rocks, Moab, aka, Day of the Fruitless Search for Mystical Tukuhnikivats
We’re exshausted, having spent the afternoon on a wild goose – or should I say wild arch – chase through the Moab wilderness. We were searching for that most mystical of arches, Tukuhnikivats, the unpronouncable. No one we asked had ever heard of it, not the park rangers at Arches National Park nor the woman who [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 11: Arches National Park, aka The Day I Almost Died
OK, perhaps I’m being a little dramatic. But still, this is the day that I’ll never forget. The day my Yaktrax fell into the abyss. The day I was stuck way out in the funnel. The day I was too paralyzed to move forward, too petrified to move back. Like always, it all started out in [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 10: Capitol Reef, Goblin Valley State Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Canyonlands National Park
Today was a hell of a day – we hit two national parks and two state parks. First, we got up for the sunrise at Capitol Reef National Park. We were told that Notom Road, which runs north-south on the other side of the rocks of Capitol Reef, is a good place to catch the [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 9: Capitol Reef National Park
So, if you were wondering why I dropped off the face of my blog in the middle of my Utah Parks Road Trip, to tell you the truth, I didn’t realize how tired I would be at the end of each day after all that hiking and shooting, and how much time it would take [...]
Utah Road Trips, Day 8: Zion National Park and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
With yesterday’s AWESOME fiery Zion sunset, we were totally motivated to get up early this morning, hopeful for an incredible sunrise. Alas, it was not to be. It was already snowing when the alarm sounded at 6 AM. We still rushed to get ready and out in the hopes of a clearing, but no, mother nature taunted [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 7: Zion National Park
This has got to be my best photography day yet on this trip. Remember I said a few days ago that I couldn’t imagine Zion being more spectacular than Bryce? Well, today was absolutely incredible. We went up the Weeping Rock trail, which was pretty icy. At one point there was an ice landslide covering [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 5: Bryce Canyon
This is our last day in Bryce Canyon. Four nights is probably more than what most people spend, and tomorrow, we head over to Zion. Everyone talks about how wonderful Zion is, but I just can’t imagine it being more spectacular than Bryce. It’s too bad that a lot of the trails weren’t tracked what [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 4: Bryce Canyon
Boy, we were seriously exhausted at the end of the day. That’s why I’m getting this post up a day late. Plus, it’s a lot of work to be out shooting all day and then come back and process photos at night! Anyway, we got up for the sunrise…and it was BITTER cold. Went back [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 3: Bryce Canyon
Today, we visited Inspiration Point, Bryce Point, and Sunset Point. In the afternoon, we hiked the 2.2 mile, 1.5 hour Navajo loop from Sunset Point down into the canyon. The snow is deep, but just a few icy points on the path. Not bad if you go down on the left side of the loop and [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip: Day 1, Arches National Park
It’s finally time for our Christmas-New Years Southern Parks of Utah Road Trip! You never would have thought it would take 4 days to get from DC to Utah, but it’s already worth it! In case you didn’t hear, the DC area’s biggest snowstorm in years and years and years dumped more than 2 feet [...]
I’ve Signed with the VisionLight Gallery!
Just wanted to let you all know that I’ve recently signed a representation agreement with the VisionLight Photographic Art Gallery. VisionLight represents a total of only 114 artists throughout the United States. I now have 240 photographs available for sale through the website, with print sizes ranging from 8×10 to 24×36 available. Check ‘em out [...]