Naturescapes

I’m truly honored to have one of my favorite egret photos featured on the March cover of Naturescapes! I appreciate the emails, messages, and kind words about this image, I hope you like it. Naturescapes.net has a lot of great articles, and fabulous photos, you can read this month’s issue here, enjoy!

The quaint town of Socorro, New Mexico is a wonderful place to visit, and it’s very close to the most beautiful Bosque del Apache where Naturescapes was held. Greg Downing, Tim Grey and myself led several workshops and presentations in this picturesque part of the country. My creative photographer students started out our HDR workshop…

I just finished up teaching at Naturescapes with Greg Downing and Tim Grey in beautiful Bosque del Apache in New Mexico. We stayed in a cool little city called Socorro that has a couple of interesting places to photograph — especially in HDR!  This ended up to be one of the locations that I took…

HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is exciting, creative and technically amazing! The art and technique of HDR allows the photographer to create extraordinary and dramatic story-telling images. With #HDR, a new image is created by combining a variety of exposures to reveal incredible detail, color, and definition throughout the highlight, mid-tone, and shadow areas. HDR…

Just for fun, I took a few photos of this car that was reflecting all the urban art surrounding it. The image was a three shot HDR and was processed through Photomatix. To add a little more drama, I used two filter’s from Topaz Labs Adjust to enhance the texture, color and shine of the…