Examples of what I am striving for in my photography

Jay Patel asked this question on G+ recently,

How do you know if you are a good Photographer?

Just how do you measure your talent? By follower count? By number of comments you get on your posts? or By number of re-shares?

If I take these as a measure of my talentI would be dead [...]

Off Road or Off Trail

It is the same thing. Taking a picture from your car window works in some cases, but getting out and exploring the angles; going where no one else has gone, sure has it’s rewards. The most may be personal rewards, but that is after all why we do this…. isn’t it?

I took this [...]

Waiting On A Dream

On the way home from work I started thinking about the weather and the fact that we have a full moon rising tonight. I knew it was going to be clear so I checked online to calculate where it was going to rise. The degree was about 76. I brought up google maps and [...]

The Winter Sparkle

 

I was headed home when I saw a road leading up a hill I had not been up before. I drove up a ways and saw the sun shining through the trees. I stopped and hiked out a few feet from the side of the road for this shot.

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Ice Passages

A few years ago I wouldn’t have bothered to get this shot. It would have been too much “work”. Now the effort put into getting the shot is half the pleasure of getting the shot itself. I had to climb down an icy, snow covered bank to get this shot. I was straddling the creek [...]