Category: Landscape Photography

Death Valley National Park, Landscape Photography

Our Recent Death Valley Trip

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Dan and I went to Death Valley on December 20 and were there through the 24th. (We got out just in time: the rain that began on our drive home eventually caused a lot of road closures, and even leaving when we did — at about 6:30 AM — we encountered flooded roads, some spots where falling rocks caused Dan to have to carefully maneuver around them, and a road closure that added probably 45 minutes to our drive.)

We woke early on our first morning and Dan drove to Lake Manly. I’d never seen a lot of water so I was looking forward to going there. I don’t do much landscape (or waterscape) photography, but I did a bit just to say I did.

Morning at Lake Manly, 12.21.25

Eastern Sierra, Landscape Photography

Eastern Sierra

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Dan and I were able to take a short trip to the Eastern Sierra this past week. It was lovely to see the colors, and very good for my head to get away. It always takes me a bit of time to go through photos: I don’t consider myself a landscape photographer — that is clearly Dan’s area, along with so many other things he does so very wonderfully — and much of what I attempt simply doesn’t work, but I rather liked this image so I’ll share it here.

Eastern Sierra Color, 10.8.23

Landscape Photography, sierra nevada

Summer Backpack Trip

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I’ve not looked at my August backpack photos for quite some time, but today I was in the mood to check more of them out. Very frequently I need to let images rest a while and see them differently when I return to them. This is happening both with the Ansel Adams Wilderness area images and with some from our New England adventure. I’m grateful I’ve learned not to trash images too quickly!

This particular photo is from a special trek I took with one of the other photographers on our trip, Jerry Bosworth. It was a very special hike for me, and a privilege to go on this adventure with him. Because of the clouds I was seeing — and after the horrible storm we had earlier in the week — I was just sure we’d end up getting rained on. Turns out it only threatened but never did more than that. Whew!

The Threat, 8.9. 22

And since I’ve mentioned Jerry, here he is, at work! (Later, on our hike back down, he helped me cross a creek. Otherwise I’m really not sure what I would have done!)

Jerry At Work, 8.9.22

Landscape Photography, New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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At some point I will manage to get to all the photos I took while on our New England trip, but it sure does take time. When I open up the folder my intention is to look at everything and weed out the images that are utterly horrible (yes, I have a lot of those). I start going through them, though, and get distracted by one image and start working on it rather than continue the task I meant to do.

I’m finding images that bring back such wonderful memories of our first, and I hope not the last, visit. I took a few photos from this same spot, just zeroing in on different things. This is the first photo I made.

Autumn Colors, New Hampshire (I), 10.6.22