My first attempt at a panoramic HDR, the light was not optimal but with travel times I had no option other that to shoot at mid day and in reality I'm fairly pleased with how it's turned out. This river area was so beautiful that it's hard to capture it in a small image.
Now Playing: Grizzly Bear - Easier
I've been shooting a lot of colorful HDR's lately but it's always good to both shoot and remember what some solid contrast between light and dark can bring. Like a good persons life there is an overwhelming glow of light with the occasional spikes of darkness coming through.
Now Playing: The Flashbulb - Sunshine
If a brook running down a rocky mounting is babbling then does that mean that this slow water runway is monotone? I like to think of it more as a powerfully quiet whisper slipping into the stillness of the masses, like a child talking in a subway station. What do you think of nature represented through human analogies?
Now Playing: Band of Skulls - Bruises
Whenever I see water like this I tend to picture a large mobster from a Bugs Bunny cartoon just stumbling along as he calls after his boss. I don't know why but the water seems clumsy and controlled so loosely by the terrain around it.
P.S. Have a listen to the song below the image, I feel that it fits very well.
Now Playing: Angus and Julia Stone - Silver Coin
I don't have a daily photo to share with you today so instead here is something that may inspire you to go create something beautiful.
The Yoshida brothers are two amazing Japanese musicians with some amazing stuff out there that everyone should at least give one play through. This is what I would say is their most accessable track, a remake of a piece from The Nightmare Before Christmas that was featured on the Nightmare Revisted soundtrack. Let me know what you think of it in the comments.
This little former gas station was along the road on the drive back home and it reminded me of some of the old stations in northern Idaho except a lot of them looked like this while still being manned. Had to stop and make this image.
Now Playing: Noah and the Whale - 5 Years Time
The force that this waterfall had seemed to just pulverize any impurities out of the water. I know that is not how it works but the water as soon as it went over the falls was just crystal clear and flowing into the open.
Now Playing: t.A.T.u. - White Robe
I don't have a daily photo to share with you all today but I do have this snapshot of my Odometer uploaded from my iPhone. Been driving and hiking for 15 hours strait so I have much editing to do tomorrow and I look forward to it immensely. Enjoy your evening and have a fantastic Easter if you partake.
Now Playing: t.A.T.u. - 30 Minutes
About to take a trip to a large park in Pennsylvania and I'm really excited to go on a long hike with my camera and my first good tripod. I feel like my horizon has expanded a lot recently with the things I've learned and tried.
What have you learned recently?
Now Playing: Neverending White Lights - Dove Coloured Sky
There's going to be a few more from my running trip to the swamp as it was an exciting and beautiful night. I feel I am gaining a new perspective of what a swamp or marsh can look like the more I explore them and I'm surprised others don't show their natural beauty more often. Usually you only see them represented as creepy dark places, this is everything but that.
Now Playing: Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
Took jumping over a full creek and sinking a good seven inches into soft silt mud and a lot of... (well I want to say sprinting but I guess at most I jog)... anyway it was fun creating this image. One of those times where you're so excited to create the image that it's all you can think about.
Now Playing: Meet the Parents? Don't ask me, it's playing in the background.
Learned a lot of new things today, one of which is the location of a great swamp about a 20 minute drive from my house. I've known of areas like this and visit several frequently but it seems like every time I just go exploring I find more places like this.
I probably looked like a crazy person pulling in and turning around at so many random little places while I looked over the swamp but hey, all in pursuit of a good image right? When the shot you had planned falls through then you turn on your feet and find another.
Now Playing: Andrew Bird - Give It Away
Quantic Dream, a company that has done some amazingly unique things in gaming has released a techinical demo of their new software engine and if you are like me, used to seeing tech demos of a lot of bouncing balls or floating rubber ducks and falling blocks or running soldiers then this video is the most refreshing and emotional take on a technical demo to date.
The demo itself is much more of a short film and pulls at many strings in me that I think are just wonderful.
They offer a look behind the scenes of the video here and have done similar videos in the past such as this one, an engine demo for what later became Heavy Rain.
Now Playing: Excision & Downlink - The Underground
A lone gazebo with a rough, windy sky.
Now Playing: Liquid Stranger - Mechanoid Mixdown
A kind of warm place that some may call home.
Now Playing: You're Not Pretty But You Got It Goin' On - Band of Skulls
Time to get back on the horse.
Now Playing: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Live)
This is a re-shoot of an image I've wanted to create for a while and I wasn't quite happy with the first time results. Check it out here for a much larger version as that is how it's viewed best.
Now Playing: Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (Walk Off The Earth Cover)
Another morning over the marsh, sunrise warming up the earth.
Now Playing: Shiny Toy Guns - When Did This Storm Begin
The last of the three small sample bottles from the Glenfiddich pack.
Now Playing: Christopher Paolini - Inheritance
Sit, have some brunch with me. Here's some cocoa, lets talk about how we're free.
Now Playing: The Academy Is... - Black Mamba (Teddybears Remix)