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While hiking up Mt. Rainier I kept reminding myself to look back in case I missed something on the horizon. Sometimes even a colorless haze can do interesting things with the light.
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, USA
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Figured I'd give this image another shot as the first edit felt a bit rushed.
Sunrise at Biljsko Jezero near Osijek, Croatia, winter 2020.
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We were returning home yesterday from a trip to the southeast US to visit family. We took a side trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina and luck was with me. As the sun tried to break through a cloudy sky I just happened to be standing outside the car with camera in hand.
The immensity of the sky in this place... it can bowl you over, leave you speechless, force you to stop talking and just stare, if you've eyes to see. This is the view up Butte Road, toward the buttes in Grasslands National Park. The high point is 70 MIle Butte, in the middle of the frame, mostly in shadow but with a patch of light on the very top. I've hiked it many times. Often, I prefer to hike to one of the surrounding heights of land, the better to photograph 70 Mile itself.
On this day, however, the story was in the sky. Even an ultra wide angle view can't convey the scale. Surprisingly, this is not one of those - a mid-range lens, zoomed to 48mm, therefore a more or less "normal" view. The show was all around me. A dancing, wondrous interplay of light and shadow; call it a gift, a blessing, a meteorological phenomenon, a random piece of photographer's luck. I kept stopping the car; it was just too good. Fortunately, traffic was light...
I've spent the past week extolling the virtues and challenges of this under-appreciated middle prairie province of western Canada. I had to balance yesterday's image of a forlorn, abandoned house in winter with this expansive, dramatic bit of summer sweetness. If the contrast is jarring, well, that's what this place is all about. Weather rules everything here. You learn to accommodate its whims. In harsh conditions, you find a hole and hunker down; when it turns benign, the sensation is palpable. Raw beauty, no artifice. There's no place like it.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
A turbulent afternoon in Southern Iceland meant I had to return to base to wait out the storms. The light changes incredibly quickly and in this shot there was little to no colour in the sky so it was perfect for a black and white conversion.
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Croatia is a country in Southeast Europe. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy. Croatia was part of the former Yugoslavia. A population of 4 million, most of whom are Catholics. Zagreb is the capital. Balanced between the Balkans and Central Europe, this country has been passed between rival kingdoms, empires and republics for thousands of years. If there is an advantage to this ongoing disruption, it is in the rich cultural legacy each has left behind. From Venetian palaces, Napoleonic fortresses, Slavic churches, Viennese mansions to socialist sculptures. But most attraction is the coastline with the remarkable clarity of the water and white pebbly beach. Despite being the fastest rising holiday destination in Europe in the past decade, Croatia still doesn't feel overrun by tourists. There are long sandy and winding beaches too, perfect for lazy days. Croatia is a beautiful country to discover many different landscapes. Korčula is a dense island with mostly dense forest, mainly holm oaks, pines and all kinds of scrub. The coast consists of bays, caves and clear water. A place for more lingering around and enjoying the slow pace of life.
Korčula is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea and lies just off the Dalmatian coast. The island harboring a glorious old town is certainly worth a visit. The historical center is very picturesque. The island is also known as the birth island of the famous explorer Marco Polo; however, this has not been proven. At that time the island belonged to the city of Venice, where he might have been born. The fact is that many inhabitants on this island bear the surname Polo. Photo of Crepuscular rays or "God rays" which are sunbeams that originate when the sun is below the horizon, during twilight hours.
Kroatië is een land in Zuidoost-Europa. Het grenst aan Slovenië in het noordwesten, Hongarije in het noordoosten, Servië in het oosten, Bosnië-Herzegovina en Montenegro in het zuidoosten en deelt een maritieme grens met Italië. Kroatië maakte deel uit van het voormalige Joegoslavië. Een bevolking van 4 miljoen, van wie de meesten katholiek zijn. Zagreb is de hoofdstad. In evenwicht tussen de Balkan en Centraal-Europa, wordt dit land al duizenden jaren doorgegeven tussen rivaliserende koninkrijken, rijken en republieken. De meeste attractie is de kustlijn met de opmerkelijke helderheid van het water en het witte kiezelstrand. Ondanks dat het de afgelopen tien jaar de snelst stijgende vakantiebestemming in Europa is, voelt Kroatië zich nog steeds niet overspoeld door toeristen. Korčula is een eiland in de Adriatische Zee en ligt net voor de Dalmatische kust. Het eiland met een glorieuze oude stad is zeker een bezoek waard. Het historische centrum is erg pittoresk. Het eiland staat ook bekend als het geboorte-eiland van de beroemde ontdekkingsreiziger Marco Polo; dit is echter niet bewezen. In die tijd behoorde het eiland tot de stad Venetië, waar hij mogelijk geboren was. Feit is dat veel inwoners van dit eiland de achternaam Polo dragen. Korčula is een dicht eiland met overwegend dicht bos, voornamelijk steeneiken, dennen en allerlei soorten struikgewas. De kust bestaat uit baaien, grotten en helder water. Een plek om meer rond te hangen en te genieten van het trage tempo van het leven. Foto van Crepusculaire stralen of Godstralen, dit zijn zonnestralen die ontstaan wanneer de zon onder de horizon staat, tijdens de schemering.
Taken on the RT. 1 bridge between Arlington and Alexandria, VA which is near Washington DC's National Airport (DCA).
Leica SL2-S, 70-300mm Canon DO lens at 130mm
ISO 800, f/6.3 at 1/2000 second
The last place to get into my regular photography rotation before I left for California was Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. I first drove there the day before my birthday on September 5th with Scotch. It was overflowing with tourists so we just continued driving in search of good roadside BBQ to share (which we found).
The next time we went, I forgot the plate for my tripod and only had a foot high mini tripod to use while trying to also keep scotch close. He enjoyed the place and the perfect weather but the enormous burrs I had to pull out of the pads of his feet made me think I should leave him home next time.
This was my first trip here without the dog. I got a late start out there and ended up arriving not too long before sunset. This was definitely the most interesting of the trips here. The sun was setting over the mountains and and created some great shadows along the river and just off the shore in the brush. Eventually, I'd force myself to do two things I absolutely hate: Walk along train tracks and then along the extremely high bridge that crosses the Shenandoah River into Harper's Ferry...in the pitch dark.
Virginius Island
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
November 3rd, 2015
SETTINGS:
Canon Rebel T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@35mm
ISO 100
f/16
1.6 seconds
CPL
More birds coming; it has been a good spring season for birds. But for now, and while I catch up on processing, a morning sky with an amazing combination of altocumulus clouds and crepuscular rays.
Rule of thirds? Forget it! It works a lot of the time, because it's about universally accepted principles of visual design and spatial organization. But if I'd been thinking "thirds", I would have missed this composition. With a reasonably blank mind - easier to achieve the older I get - I was able to respond to my subject, rather than try to impose or overlay something on the subject. This is an important distinction.
If I had been following a formula, placing the horizon line one third of the way up from the bottom, I would have chopped important cloud detail from the top. Because of the extreme contrast that results from shooting directly into the sun (even a sun mostly masked by the clouds), I knew the land mass in the foreground would be nearly solid black. Did I want to fill up one third of my image with solid black? I see this fairly often in landscape images; it rarely works out. The glory lay in the light, not the featureless foreground, so I knew in an instant that I would fill most of the frame with sky. You can't go wrong when the light itself is your subject!
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
View from Topas Ecolodge, in Sa Pa Vietnam. Sa Pa is a town in the Hoàng Liên Son Mountains of northwestern Vietnam
Unnamed Waterfall
Funston Arch Complex
Private Property
McCreary County, Kentucky
Humidity and morning sunlight is something I can be a big fan of in the middle of winter and I really enjoyed this scene as it played out before my eyes. As I continue to explore more secluded and remote places in the state of Kentucky the more amazed I become at the hidden beauty that I just can't believe exists. In the case of this place here, I hope that the serious recent interest that this area has drawn doesn't end up biting us all in the butt as the property owners who just recently were notified of its existence hopefully don't decide to begin to control trespassing. This is a place I could come to again and again and spend hours each time.
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Tonights sunset.
A quick grab shot with the iphone using Apple ProRaw. I was driving past as these crespuscular rays appeared from the setting sun and I had to stop for a few images.
Entrance Island, Macquarie Heads, west coast Tasmania.
The ferry's wake leads back through Hells Gates. Kawatiri Shoal behind the island with Mts Heemskirk and Zeehan in the distance.
Nice lighting all day.
Leica Q2 Monochrom, Summilux 28mm f/1.7, 1/1250th sec at f/7.1, ISO 200. Red filter.
I’ve photographed this tree a million times in a million different conditions and I’m sure your going to see more of it.
i hoped when i saw these rays poking through my bird watching day may get a little more productive but alas no such luck!
As photographers, we know that light is everything.... well, its the same in Life...
This is a shot from last fall when chasing the light all weekend long in the Eastern Sierra, complete with 4 rainbows in one weekend. This shot was hanging out cliffside with photog friends having fun, enjoying the glorious moody skies near Mammoth Mountains...What an amazing diverse landscape photography area.
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Also referred to as “The Quiraing” or “Cuith-Raing’” is a landslip on the eastern face of Meall na Suiramach, the northernmost summit of the Trotternish or Tròndairnis (Scottish Gaelic) on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Taken in dramatic December weather, the stormy ephemeral light opens and beams of short lived godrays radiate down over the spiked land formation called The Cleat, Loch Cleat, and Loch Leum na Luirginn below. The highest ridge to the right is called Dun Dubh, and the interesting craggy dinosaur back - shark fin formation on the lower right is called Cnoc a Mheirlich.
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As I was getting a glass of water, I looked out the kitchen window toward the woods in my back yard. The sun was coming directly at me through the light morning fog. It was all just enough to create a few God-rays. The morning frost was just thawing and there were a few water droplets on branches here and there. I called my wife over to share the view with her. She suggested going onto the back porch and taking a picture. Thank you for taking a closer look.
Diese Kulisse werde ich wohl nie vergessen... Sangobeg Beach an einem stürmischen Abend.
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I'll never forget this view upon Sangobeg Beach at this stormy evening.
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Beautiful volcanic sea stacks and black and gold sand at Tenerife, Gran Canary. A departure gift on the final day of a this trip :)
I encountered many interesting cloud formations in the Sierras this weekend, but this sunrise over Emerald Bay was my favorite! Waves of pink and orange in the sky were reflected in the clear waters of South Lake Tahoe; the presence of crepuscular rays made setting the alarm at 4am to capture sunrise totally worth the loss of sleep. A beautiful morning spent in one of the most beautiful places on earth!
When I was looking out the window this morning, I immediately had to start running to pick up the camera to capture this breathtaking moment for you.
Returning from our hike to the top of 2nd highest waterfall in the world in South Africa, the clouds that dogged us the whole day began to melt away.
It was a long climb up to the top of Tugela Falls in the Drakensburg Mountains close to the border between Lesotho and South Africa. We had enjoyed the views every time the fog and mist cleared away but these moments were far too rare and it was only midway through our walk back that we started seeing blue sky.
The wait was worth it though! There were several layers of craggy mountains in the foreground and a towering wall of mountains at far horizon as well. In between them there were hills, meadows and a river glistening in the sunlight. Amidst these features fog, mist and cloud roiled, tossed in dancing spirals by winds swirling around in different directions at different distances from us.
We took several photos but soon realised that we couldn't capture the dramatic event that was happening around us and simply... watched. Much of what we do as landscape photographers is witness grand spectacles that happen all the time in quiet and untravelled parts of our world. Spectacles that nobody sees but us in the moment and the people who see the images we make.
Inspired by the views that clear evening, we redid the entire hike the very next day since the weather was more promising. While the views were grander, the photos weren't as they missed the play of light and shadow with the clouds.
I took two videos at the very top of the waterfall, one on the cloudy day and the other on the clear day. You can see how much more cautious I am around the edge when I can see all the way down!
Cloudy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf28Tytik5c
Clear: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wALt-xLP32g
Canon EOS 5D Mark II with Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS
Royal Natal Park, Drakensburg Mountains, South Africa, 2011
So the suggestion was that we would all meet up with Tom at the Many Glacier Hotel and then we might grab some dinner before heading out to do some night photography after our arrival on Thursday night. I believe my response was something along the lines of….
"If we drop by St Mary Lake and it's EPIC with sun streaming through broken clouds over Wild Goose Island and it looks like God himself is telling us to run and get the tripods, maaaaybe we should stop and take some shots."
So….that's pretty much what happened. We turned the corner coming around from the parking lot and five jaws hit the ground in unison. Tom met us at the lake and we elected him to go first into the bear infested woods to blaze a trail down to the shoreline. Over the next two hours, we were treated to some of most fantastic crepuscular rays I've ever seen. Just before we lost the sun for the night, it burst through from the West and lit up the entire range on our left. I have to admit that shooting conditions were a bit of a challenge as I lost the lens cap to my Nikon 14-24 down a rocky crevasse (putting a BIG dent in my photography plans for the weekend) and the darn wind kept trying to blow us off our feet. But all five us soldiered on and barely spoke as we quickly began filling up our cards trying to capture each epic scene as it unfolded before us.
As for the title, St. Mary Lake is just plain stunning no matter where you stand on that shoreline. But Wild Goose Island simply puts it in a class by itself. There's just something about that solitary little patch of trees in that vast expanse of greenish-blue water that takes your breath away. As if God wasn't satisfied with this stunning lake and just had to add that one final touch.
Somewhere high over eastern England, above characterful clouds and under a dying sun, a spectacular dusk was unfolding.
Photography is, like most things in life, what you make of it. A great camera certainly helps but is no substitute for a curious photographer who always has a camera to hand, anticipates the next photo-worthy opportunity and has the technical ability to capture it.
While the other 300 or so people on this flight from London to Seoul had their windows shut, I was waiting for the moment the aircraft started heading North thereby providing a view to the Northwest where the sun had just set. When the pilot banked left I opened my window and was treated to a beautiful scene of purple tinged cumulus and a distant storm cloud obscuring the sun. I whipped out my point and shoot, waited till things lined up and took two photos that were stitched together to produce this image.
Most people, myself included, hate flying. However, it doesn't have to be all bad if you stay positive and curious. There are many opportunities that only present themselves when you're 10km up in the sky in a pressurized aluminium tube :)
Watching this scene unfold, I no longer could hear the babies crying, feel the dry air irritate my nose or care that the sweaty passenger next to was encroaching into my space. I was out there over the clouds watching something magical happen and I was -- as far as I could tell at least -- the only person in the world who cared to watch.
Somewhere over East Anglia, Britain, 2014
Sony RX100
Taken today, the weather was great with some fog and sun light plus the amazing autumn-colored nature!
November 2015, Belfort, France.
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Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania. Mount Sorell (1144m) with its head in the clag.
Perfect conditions this day making a mockery of the Harbour's darker history.
Leica Q2 Monochrom, Summilux 28mm f/1.7, 1/1250th sec at f/7.1, ISO 200. Red filter.
About two hours before sunset some pretty impressive clouds appeared from nowhere above where I live. We've been having a very nice Indian summer, with temperatures hovering around 23c during the day so I was a bit surprised to see rain clouds overhead. Sadly these clouds moved on, in fact they're the clouds just above the horizon blocking any "decent" sunset. Thankfully we had a new group of clouds move in at just the right time to provide a bit of drama in the sky. That a ship came sailing across the scene was a nice bonus.
It seems summer is over today with it being quite miserable :D Perfect timing for a visit from England.....
6 June 2018: Aerial view as sunlight breaks through the clouds and lights up the hills over Pennsylvania from a Piper Archer aircraft.
I shot this photo through the window of my cousin's Piper Archer aircraft on my first ever private plane ride. The skies were quite cloudy all day and we only had this brief moment of special light as the sun rays shined through the cloud cover. It is was very cool to see up close and I'm so thankful for the opportunity to see nature at work in a whole new light.