I get asked about my photo processing alot. It’s a challenging question. For me, processing a photo starts before I even press the shutter. I take a picture when it tells a story, moves me in some specific way, sings to me (really!) – all of which ends up as this fluttery feeling in my…
Ok, kidding about smelling monkeys. Kinda. hehheh. This spot is in New Zealand and it’s called Monkey Creek… and we stopped there. Took some photos. Smelled the clean Monkey Creek air. Of course, I was with photographers. And one thing about photography is that you tend to stop a lot more than you used to…
I learned a new term on my trip to New Zealand. A “layup”. Trey Ratcliff taught it to me. In the photography context, it means “an easy shot”. One where you don’t have to work really hard to make an amazing photograph. It seemed to me that all of New Zealand is one big layup!…
Church of Good Shepards, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. Special guest appearance by Milky Way. Everytime she focused upon what her heart desired most, it seemed that all the forces in the Universe moved in unexpected and delightful ways to make it so. She made it a point to imagine often. That’s how I felt when…
Rainy, rainy the night before, Milford Sound woke moody and blue in the morning. It happened sometimes, and it frankly wished the tourists would quite imagining that every day was sunshine and fairies. It sent a sand fly to bite one of them standing there with a camera. Yeah. That kind of moody. The day the…
On the way into Milford Sound, New Zealand stand these magnificent sentries. They’re impressive… like dare-you-to-pass guardians. I felt like I should have to decode an ancient rune or dodge poison darts whilst leaping from rock to rock over a wide mountain stream to gain entry. But perhaps they were looking the other way –…
Our first couple of days in New Zealand have been rainy, rainy, rainy! Big winds, power outages, trees down – exciting! Trey Ratcliff, Curtis Simmons and Scott Kublin and felt intrepid and eager to get out and start photographing though… so with big smiles positive expectations we jumped in the truck and took to the road. We were…