This is the last older image of mine that I decided to go back and reprocess for now. I have a lot of newer images from Summer trips to go through, but this one from a couple of years ago at Mount St. Helens had been irking me for a while.
This was taken on an early Summer morning and was the first time I had the chance to see this spectacular mountain in all of its glory. It was a scene like no other I had ever witnessed. A landscape with obvious evidence of the famous eruption. Yet, it was miraculous how much recovery had already taken place in just a little over 30 years as well. I tried my best to capture that with this image. I absolutely love red paintbrush wildflowers, so I tried to get close up to this patch in the area that made for a nice foreground. Thank you for taking a look.

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Bryce Canyon National Park

The hoodoos at Bryce Canyon Amphitheater are spectacular and deservedly get many photographer’s attention. But what I really loved at the park were the sand dune hills of fully eroded hoodoos that have orange, pink and white hues.

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Back in May, I co-led a 12-day workshop and tour to New Zealand. What an amazing place! Fellow photog, Joshua Cripps, put together an amazing itinerary which ended in the gorgeous area of Milford Sound. After it was all over, I headed back to this magical place and caught a moody sunrise with an incredibly low tide. I can’t wait to go back in April 2016!

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Spectacular show of the Northern Lights (Aurora) over Nupen, outside of Harstad in Northern Norway.

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Breaking the rules with boulders from another world

The Moeraki Boulders lay along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden, a short drive south from Christchurch. Fresh off the plane and mad as spaniel’s to see New Zealand, we forget to grab the little things that help out, for instance wellies and made our way down to Moeraki. This particular photograph was my first dawn patrol in New Zealand. I witnessed the most intense pre dawn glow ever before this photograph, the camper van rental man wasn’t joking when he said how vivid the light is here.

After a successful twenty minutes I stumbled across these two boulders in the fading glow and set about breaking the rules, three’s better than two they say. I got so absorbed in my work I waded out into the sea as per normal but quickly realized I wasn’t in my usual gear. The water temperature was a far cry from Indonesia and to say I had cold feet/legs for the rest of the morning would be an understatement. A trip to warehouse for the coastline essentials soon followed.

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This is a badlands image where the RAW capture was rather dull, so an effort was made to dig deep and extract all the color that was hidden there.

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One of my goals for heading to Iceland in the winter was to visit the Ice Caves. Surely enough on our third day in Iceland we were invited to tag along Colby, Joe, and Brian for a visit to the “new cave”. After a fun ride through boulder strewn roads in a hummer we came up to the base of the glacier. A short hike later, we entered what can only be described as otherworldly. The ice cave glistened with deep blues and the ice was carved and contorted by thousands of years of pressure. Best of all, we had the cave to ourselves for several hours before the tour groups arrived.

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A waterfall on its own doesn’t usually impress me, but using one as the foreground to Patagonia’s most dramatic mountain gives you something to work on.
I confess, I thought I knew Los Glaciers National Park but here on Arroyo del Salto I found a cascade that had totally escaped my attention. I found it on the 25th May, which is a public holiday in Argentina. I was resolved to keep coming back again and again to get it right, but I managed this on only my second visit, I particularly love the small details like the tip of Fitz Roy’s summit poking out through the clouds. I was very lucky to have the perfect water flow, exquisite light on the mountain and a balanced composition. You can be assured I will keep trying to re-shoot this scene; hopefully we’ll have some snow soon.

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