This has been a great year to photograph. We were able to revisit some favorite places (Moab, Olympic National Park, southwest Colorado) and explore some new territory (Whidbey Island, Glacier National Park). I began this year with the realization that, while I still love the nature photography that I’ve been doing for years, I also need something more. This led to exploration of new subjects (Fort Casey, Garnet Ghost Town, city-scapes) and new treatments (more black & white, HDR, painterly effects). It has also been fun to continue to push the envelope of my own creativity with montages and other creative techniques in Photoshop. I’ve posted a selection of 20 of my favorite images from this year’s adventures – click here to visit the gallery. Some of these images have been the subject of blog posts and you can read more about them in the blog entries.
The image above is of Upper McDonald Creek Falls in Glacier NP. It is an HDR image made before sunrise and processed using Photomatix’s exposure fusion module. It was finished in Photoshop and has a painterly effect reminiscent of an old-time oil painting. (Yes, the water really was that color. It’s from rock that has been finely ground by the glaciers – known as glacial flour.)
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Thanks, Charles. I felt a very strong sense of place and history in Garnet and it’s gratifying to know that I was able to convey some of that in my photographs.