Tag: Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S

  • San Luis Valley

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 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…

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  • Harris Creek

    Harris Creek

    One nice benefit to maintaining this blog is that it encourages me to go through all the pictures from a trip like this one to Vancouver Island and actually post-process some of them. I am particularly happy with my results for the image above. It is a blend of five separate photos, each focused at…

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  • Trunkated

    Trunkated

    Last week I promised some very different images and I’m a little worried that the first two might not live up to that billing because they are both foresty. But the later ones will get there! I love the combination of mottled light and patchy colors on the tree trunk above. The trunk itself barely…

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  • Fairy Forest

    Fairy Forest

    As mentioned in last week’s post, we visited Fairy Lake twice while on Vancouver Island. After the first visit, we spent a couple hours exploring an area of forest that was adjacent to the lake. It was a small recreation area with a few campgrounds (that were closed, probably due to the season) and a…

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