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Thought I couldn't get a better picture of Sol Duc Falls. I was wrong.
A couple of years ago on my Olympic workshop, we got some amazing pictures of a rainbow over Sol Duc Falls. I didn't think I could top that so I didn't bring my DSLR camera with me on our trip to Sol Duc this year. That could have been a huge mistake. Fortunately, even though I rarely shoot during workshop, I always carry my lightweight pocket camera bag: a compact flash card. I do this just in case. Just in case something great happens and I can get a chance to plug my card into someone else's camera. Fortunately, my friend Victoria Dye, who was helping me with this workshop, let me put my card into her Canon 5D MKII and I was able to grab a few nice shots of this fantastic scene. Note that no extra processing has been done to this image other than to slightly lighten the background. (As a side note, last time Victoria helped me with this workshop I got the other rainbow picture, the one at the top of this email. I think she's a lucky charm. Not sure yet if she's a rabbit's foot or a horseshoe.) |
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I'm looking into visiting Iceland in the next year or so, with the possible goal of setting up a photo tour. Does anybody out there have any contacts or know of any good local guides in Iceland? If so, could you email me with any info. I'd really appreciate it.
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Don Mammoser and I are leading a trip this fall into the beautiful San Juan Mountains of Colorado and there's still space remaining and time to sign up.
There aren't many better places to go for fall color and mountain scenery than Colorado. The dates are September 28 to October 2 and the price is $795. For more information and instructions for signing up, click here. |
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The other fall trip I'm doing is a tour of the Wineries of Oregon's Willamette Valley. The fall is a wonderful time to visit as the crowds have thinned, there's great color in the grape leaves and surrounding deciduous trees, and sunrises don't come stupidly early!
I'm leading this tour with my friend Dick Badger, a notorious wine snob as well as an accomplished photographer. Ok, he's not a snob. But he does know wine and he's been visiting this area regularly for years. (and he has the wine cellar to prove it)
This is a fun trip. We make arrangements with one winery for a brunch to be served after our morning shoot and we plan an afternoon lunch at another winery. In addition, we'll make reservations one night at the famous Joel Palmer House, one of the many premier restaurants to be found in the area. |
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I'm thinking of trying something new next year, a workshop that spends a bit less time in the field and more time in the classroom working on digital processing and workflow.
As I mentioned earlier, my friend Victoria Dye helped me out on my Olympic National Park workshop last week. Victoria's been doing some teaching of her own lately including a class on using Lightroom. She was able to share with us quite a number of great Lightroom techniques and I learned a whole lot about the program from her, more than I have before, in fact. I'm going to try to convince her that we need to do our own digital workflow workshop next year.
This would be more than just a "show you how" lecture workshop. You'd be working on your own images, over and over and over again on your own laptops, repeating things until they become second nature (or at least on the way to that). |
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As many of you know, I recently switched to Canon. Well, not all the way. Just in the small camera department. And since I didn't have a small camera to begin with I guess I'm not technically switching. I'm augmenting. That's a fine word, augmenting.
Anyway, I've been taking this camera with me to places where I'd want a camera but didn't want to haul all the big camera stuff. |
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