Tag: Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S
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Snippets of Bruges
I was bound to have a post that was largely isolated windows, doors, and drainpipes, wasn’t I? Well, this is the Bruges Edition of exactly that. These first two images, above and below, are obviously of the same building. For whatever reason I did not take an image of the door and the window together—it…
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A Bolder Bruges
Bruges has a lot of brick walls. Most are unpainted. Of the ones that are painted, most are in muted colors either due to intent or age. When there are bolder colors, they are usually on the doors and window shutters. All of this is admittedly a generalization, but the bolder colors usually caught my…
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Damme Canals!
We now turn to the last phase of our 2024 European adventure—Belgium—which was organized around a Light & Land trip to Bruges. (Here is a link to the 2025 installment of this same trip, in case you are interested.) I’ll show pictures of Bruges proper in a few weeks, but this week and next will…
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San Luis Valley
Alamosa, Colorado, sits in the middle of the vast 8,000-square-mile San Luis Valley. The valley floor is at an elevation of over 7,500′ and is surrounded by mountain ranges that feature 14,000′ peaks. The valley is primarily agricultural—lots of ranching and farming—and there is a fair amount of open space, as is pretty clear in…
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Southern Colorado Gold
My wife and I are on a mission to see the entire state of Colorado. This isn’t happening at a breakneck pace, mind you, but we are making steady progress. Whenever we drive somewhere new we color in the roads with a pink highlighter on our rather beat-up paper Colorado map. At this point, there…
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Western Virginia in the Fall
Two weeks after my shooting day in New Hampshire, I was staying for the week in Norton, Virginia, which offers plenty of fall color of its own. The image above is just a tiny piece of endless forests bursting with color. Unfortunately, I was only free for a couple short forays into the woods that…
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The New Hampshire Challenge
I have alluded to this in the previous two posts, but there was a distinct challenge during my one-day New Hampshire photographic marathon: so many trees with so many colors. Unlike the forests in the Western US where evergreen trees dominate, in New Hampshire the deciduous trees hold the overwhelming majority. When confronted with the…
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A Little Pond in New Hampshire
I recently had the opportunity to spend an October day—an entire day—photographing in New Hampshire. If I had to live the same month over and over again, Groundhog Day style, I would hope for October because it is pretty much the best month everywhere. (Except Arizona. There it is February.) Certainly in New England, October…
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Harem in Paradise
The Yellowstone River flows northward through Montana’s Paradise Valley, winding its way through farms and ranches. On my recent visit, I saw a number of pronghorn, but they were always rather distant. I did, however, come across plenty of elk within reach. The bull elk above was keeping an eye on his ladies and (presumably…
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Botany Bay Up Over
Botany Bay is a popular name: Vancouver Island’s version has homonymous counterparts in England, South Carolina, and—most famously—Australia. I have not been to any of the others (yet!) but they all seem to be more dramatic landscapes than this one. This beach was kind of a tweener: it was a lot rockier than a proper…