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Spending a few days in Montreux, because we can. Never get tired of those mountaina always present in the background... :-)
Wyotana Landscape Gold
Watching the Photographer take a photo of the landscape, these two Mule Deer Doe’s were minding their own business. I come along and interrupt their grazing for a minute. Not my intent of course since I was minding my own business too. Driving in the backcountry I randomly run into small groups of creatures great and small. This time, I was more interested in the long landscape in front of me. But consider them and the tree they bracket, as a nice lower border to this composition. Bonus lol. This was a 10 layer landscape ladder just laid out for my enjoyment and now hopefully yours.
“Landscape ladders” are such captures with layer after layer of different color/texture/distance or topography. It’s easy to find a lot of intersecting angles in a landscape but layer on top of layer is desirable to me anyway lol. Of course this is a “Close / Far perspective taken
Late day Golden Hour Lighting predictably gave this image a markedly red colorcast as was true to the scene. I take great care to get the main sun colors properly weighted toward the longer wavelengths when appropriate I’ve more or less categorized they types of evening light in my own head how. It is just a matter of verbalizing it now lol. I find that knowing and teaching are two different animals.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming / Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Wyotana Landscape Gold
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Eastern Grey Kangaroos Macropus giganteus in the woods in the Blue Mountaina west of Sydney, Australia
some climbers I drew for Race to The Summit (http://www.scimitargames.com)
Granite Jackson, Hannah Mountaina, Gym Kirk and Gorge Constanza
The Sunday Telegraph once called 20something chef Jimmy Garcia as 'London's the popup kingâ and for one reason or another, the name seems to have stuck. Jimmy is (amongst other things) the man behind The Lodge, which currently lives in Clapham North; on top of the Clapham North pub - right next to Clapham North tube station, former site of Jimmyâs âSecret Gardenâ popup. The Lodge is back for another few months after an amazing run in Balham last year. Jimmyâs a busy guy - now the author of a book called âSocial Eatsâ, he also arranges various private dining experiences all over the shop (and by âshop' I mean âa large geographic areaâ ). Everything from warehouses in East London to chateaus in France.
But weâre digressing. Letâs get back to Clapham. Whatâs The Lodge about then? The approach appears to be casual âAlpineâ dining, leaning heavily on the Swiss and Modern European styles - with a few French influences. Swiss food isnât a thing you see all that much of - so many may be unfamiliar of it (asides from Swiss cheese, I suppose?). I guess Iâd sum up what theyâre doing here as âheartyââ¦perhaps âwarmingâ (at the risk of sounding a little maudlin). An entire menu of warm/hot cocktails, steaming bowls of fondue (courtesy of Nealâs Yard Dairy) and a cozy wooden interior very much modelled on a ski chalet you might find two thirds of the way up a mountain somewhere in Graubünden. There are also a few things on the menu you might never have seen before; rare (and expensive) Swiss wines, a type of super premium fondue made entirely from Swiss cheeses, and a type of schnapps called Genepi (which appears magically in shot form, usually around the same time as your dessert arrives)
Another thing worth mentioning: The Lodgeâs private dining room (AKA 'The Snug'). This, amongst other things, possesses a private patio overlooking Clapham North (completely covered in fake snow and greenery). I am told that it also has burners for roasting your own marshmallows (omgwtfbbq). The Lodge will soon be transforming into something a little more summery. I donât know what theyâre calling it exactly but I think itâll be something similar to the Nantucket Beach Club that the guys at the Hilton Doubletree have got going on (think âcoast not mountainâ more seafood choices, and an environment designed to amplify those delicious summer vibesâ¦)
My first Black and White image of 2010.
A look back at my first BW image of 2009
And my first BW image from 2008
West Pond, Parsonsfield, Maine.
Panorama looking north, northwest across the pond from Rt-160.
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