Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

Photo: Blues Sky Crack; also, the Whole Enchillada

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Today, we have yet another view in Antelope Canyon. I hope you guys like these because I have a hell of a lot more. It was def­i­nitely the high­light of the trip for me, pho­to­graph­i­cally. This one was a lit­tle tricky, and involves com­bin­ing two expo­sures to get that sky and the walls of the canyon but still look natural.

The Whole Enchillada

Also, I’ve gone ahead and uploaded a flash gallery of the best pho­tos from the entire trip. If you want to see them one a day, skip this, as I’ll still be blog­ging them over the com­ing weeks. But if you want to make a run through them all and tell me what you think, here’s the gallery.

Photo: Blues Sky Crack; also, the Whole Enchillada

Photo: Spires

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Post-​​expedition ennui is over­whelm­ing me today. Things turned com­pli­cated and sour at Sarah’s work while we were gone. I’ve had lit­tle suc­cess in my job search, and the need to do so grows ever more press­ing as Sarah finds it harder and harder to deal with work­ing in a field she never had any desire in which to work. She wants to be a teacher, and for that, we need to get her back into school. To do that, we need to get me a job with benefits.

Photo: Spires

Photo: Petrified Forest National Park

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

This is what it’s like out here. Everywhere you turn, there’s an amaz­ing geo­log­i­cal view. Painted deserts, pet­ri­fied dunes, mesa, shiprocks, arches… after a cer­tain point, you almost become dead­ened to the majesty of it all.

Yesterday, we had a lovely time in Mesa Verde before head­ing on to a tourist trap town called Durango where we stopped for the night. We’re going to eat break­fast at a French bak­ery and then see how much progress we can make towards dri­ving home.

Photo: Petrified Forest National Park

Bonus Photo: The Fiery Furnace at Dawn

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

I’ll prob­a­bly end up pho­to­shop­ping out the lens flare later on, but right now I kind of like it. This is another HDR from Arches National Park at dawn(ish). I was going to shoot this same pic­ture at sun­set last night but couldn’t be arsed. Have to pace your­self on these kinds of adven­tures or you’ll get exhausted too soon. Yesterday evening was a rest period.

Bonus Photo: The Fiery Furnace at Dawn

Photo: Sunrise Behind The Windows

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Today’s a dri­ving day. We’re going to round up our belong­ings here in a bit and get on the road to Page, Arizona. Page is near Antelope Canyon, a place I’ve been antic­i­pat­ing pho­tograph­ing since I started tak­ing nature pho­tog­ra­phy more seriously.

This is an HDR from the dawn shoot­ing, look­ing back towards the sun and through the North and South Window Arches. You can kind of see Turret Arch peek­ing through there too.

Photo: Sunrise Behind The Windows

Photo: Dawn in Arches National Park

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Up at the crack of dawn and back to the park this morn­ing. Sadly, clouds had gath­ered to the east, obscur­ing that golden light I wanted to paint on my can­vas. We had about 10 min­utes of golden hour instead of an hour. Got a few good shots though.

After dawn shoot­ing, we drove to the Needles District of Canyonlands. It was nice, but not nearly as impres­sive as Arches National Park. However, we got to see pet­ro­glyphs , which were amaz­ing. I had never seen them before myself. More pho­tos later. Now is the time for rest­ing. Maybe more sun­set pho­tog­ra­phy tonight, maybe not. We’ll see how we feel in a cou­ple of hours.

Photo: Dawn in Arches National Park

Photo: Double Arch

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

We arrived in Moab a lit­tle before noon. The light at this time of the day is ter­ri­ble, so we did some scout­ing, fig­ur­ing out what the best van­tage points would be when the sun was set­ting. Then we headed into town and ate at a “cafe.” I think “cafe” is code in tourist traps for “over­priced.” We’re now holed up in a Motel 6 wait­ing for the sun to get a lit­tle lower on the hori­zon. Then we’ll head back into the park and try to get some honest-​​to-​​goodness land­scape photos.

The plan is to shoot dawn in the park again tomor­row, then drive to Canyonlands in the after­noon to scout. Monday morn­ing, we’ll shoot Canyonlands and then get on the road to the Grand Canyon. Wash and repeat, basi­cally. We’re hav­ing a blast!

Photo: Double Arch

Photo: Some Life Survives

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Another out­take from the Wastelands promo shoot. I liked this one for the errant piece of grass that crept into the shot. Happy lit­tle accident.

Photo: Some Life Survives

Looking for a Future

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Another out­take from the Wastelands give­away shoot. I really liked this one, but again, it doesn’t suit the needs of the shoot.

Looking for a Future

Photo: One Bad Mother

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

An out­take of my shoot for the Wastelands give­away over at Tor​.com. This is actu­ally I think my favorite from the shoot, but it didn’t suit the pur­poses of the shoot (mate­r­ial for a cap­tion contest).

Photo: One Bad Mother