Patience

Sometimes patience is what you need to get the right image. Take this one for example. It is a 10 minute exposure, during which I was checking my watch every 30 seconds or so and thinking "is it time yet!" I'm glad I waited. Ending the exposure early would have resulted in a dark image with little contrast.

This was shot durung what was the "biggest full moon of the year". I was out shooting that night, and did not take a single picture of the moon. I figure that everyone is going to have that shot (especially when it was low on the horizon, although the colors at sunset were incredible). Instead I decided to use it as the world's largest nighttime light source. I will be coming back to this theme (night shots) over and over.

A different look

I was looking at this photo on the blog, and decided I wanted to try it as a black and white photo. That's actually what I envisioned when I first took it, but haven't gotten around to playing with it. This is the first attempt for this image, so I may work on it some more. I guess that would be a bit of a warning that this one could come back to haunt us more than once.

Nature

I do a lot of camping and backpacking, and many of my images come from that. I've always felt very comfortable in nature, since that is where I can get away from the cell phone, the broken-down machines, the constant calls, etc. Instead, I can go to where I find new sights, and new insights.

My Style

My style, as I've thought about it in the past, is found detail. I can and do create images "from scratch", but most often it is the detail I find around me that fascinates me the most. Seeing something different from everyone else is what I find exciting about photography. Creating my own point of view, and sharing that with everyone else, is what keeps me going as a photographer.