From the Art-book “White Dream”

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It’s dark and moody on purpose, do me a favor and view it on black.

OK, I’ll agree with all of you… this is one of the most over-photographed places I have ever been to. I know that now and I knew it back in 2008 when I photographed this… but I hadn’t been here before and I wanted to see it for myself. Sue me. Just so happens it turned out to be one of the most insane displays of light I had ever seen.

I decided to reprocess this one recently while down and out with a cold… I think I have an ear infection, too. So if this looks wonky to anyone, blame the fist-fulls of DayQuil I’m jacked up on. But it’s a blend of a few exposures, some dodging and burning, a couple texture adjustments, luminosity masks for tonality control, and some perspective shifting here and there. All in all, only about 45min worth of work went into this one. Not too shabby for being zonked out on cold meds.

Anyways, like everyone else in this crowded nature photography scene, I lead workshops, I teach processing instruction in person or worldwide via Skype screen sharing, and have a website with images, workshop info, prints, and yadda, yadda, yadda. My summer is filling up fast, so if you’d like to book a workshop just give me a shout! http://ift.tt/HjSx9r

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Abraham Lake in Canadian Rockies is famous for ice bubbles and other ice formations. During my 3 day camping trip at the lake I was looking for unique compositions. I found this thundered like crack in the ice while hiking across the frozen lake. Using wide angle lens and focus blending technique, I am trying to showcase amazing ice formations and vibrant sunrise. It was an incredible experience to watch the display of warm colours while standing on thick layer of clear, cold ice.
As usually with this type of photos it is the best to view it on the dark background. Thanks and enjoy.

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fisherman nets in sunset

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Very intensely watching all the online weather reports, radar, web cams… I decided to chase three severe thunderstorm cells to Crater Lake three days in a row. In 13 years of doing landscape photography full time I don’t know if I have ever witnessed such a spectacular show of light or as much lightening! On this evening, I took 2150 images in about an hour and a half, using two cameras, running back and forth between them. The Ranger next to me said that in 12 years of working at Crater Lake, hiking daily and often hiking the rim on his days off, he had never seen anything like it.

This is a single shot with the Sony A7R and the Canon 14mmL2. One of the hardest things about processing the image was to take the colors that were severely unrealistic to the eye, as well as unrealistic in the initial Raw default settings, and dummy them down, and settle on a point where they would be more believable but not lose the original craziness. I decided to attempt to strike a balance between the ridiculousness of the light we saw that night (which runs the risk of turning some people off) and a more neutral realistic version. We can never please everyone but with some critical help I ended up settling on this version.

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I have some AWESOME encouraging photographer friends to thank considerably for critical feedback in fine tuning the image over the last few days. HUGE thanks and a great debt of gratitude go out to:

Ted Gore, Alex Noriega (these guys are savant freaks when it comes to post production!) Peter Cosken, Andrew Mitchell, Erin Babnik (she is a guru too!) Ryan Engstrom, Brain Adelberg (Brian rocks!) Micheal Shaniblum, Rob Lafreniere, Scott Smorra, Majeed Badizadegan, Max Vuong, TJ (monster work ethic) Thorn, David Richer, Dylan Toh, Paul Rojas, Justin Poe, Terrence Lee, Paul Bowman, Nick Diggins and Enrico Fossati.

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An older one of Trillium lake I found in the archives. Hope you enjoy, Have a great day!

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