Tag: tree

  • Hiking the ‘W circuit’ at Torres del Paine, Patagonia

    Hiking the ‘W circuit’ at Torres del Paine, Patagonia

    TL;DR; We went for a walk. It was very nice. For 3 years we’ve been talking about hiking in Torres del Paine, with the sole purpose of capturing ‘that pic’. The reasons for not going sooner have been various but were led by the simple fact that we were intimidated by the idea of spending…

  • Tutorial: Bringing the Storm

    Tutorial: Bringing the Storm

    Today’s lesson is in adding dark storm clouds to a beautiful clear sky, without doing all that complicated selection nonsense. There’s always a debate raging amongst photographers about how much you’re “allowed” to change an image and still call it a photograph. Clearly studio model shots that are then composited on to images of urban…

  • Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon

    Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon

    Deanna and I booked a 3 day hike with ‘Just roughin’ it‘, down the North face of the Grand Canyon, across the width, and up the South face. To use the vernacular of the kids, it was awesome. Three days carrying everything we needed to camp, eat, hike and generally survive. None of this would…

  • Tutorial: Light Painting Tools

    Tutorial: Light Painting Tools

    People stop me in the streets and ask ‘Aren’t you that guy that does those things?’ Once the confusion passes it normally, fortunately, turns out they’re talking about light painting, and the next question they ask is ‘How?’ The exact technique for each picture will be revealed as and when this blog progresses, but for…

  • Review (Olympus EP-2): Our 4/3rds Weekend at East Brother Light Station

    Review (Olympus EP-2): Our 4/3rds Weekend at East Brother Light Station

    As you know my lovely wife and I are about to hike the Grand Canyon. This epic 3 day walk, carrying all our gear will probably kill me, but that’s OK because I intend to leave some lovely photos of the event for my descendants to quibble over. The problem I have, is what camera…

  • Tutorial: HDR Scary Tree

    Tutorial: HDR Scary Tree

    Let’s try something new. Here’s a nice picture of a scary tree guarding a sleeping princess.     Wanna know how I took the shot from this bland image to the dark image above? Watch the tutorial and enjoy!

  • Reaching for you

    Reaching for you

    I recently went for a stroll in a very damp, tumbling down forest. The whole thing looked like something from a movie. I think there were even those strange slithering creatures just out of sight. The recent storms clearly were encouraging everything to grow at a startling rate. That and die, and rot, and transmute…