Fuji GFX 100s ii
In my previous post I discussed my decision to try a new photo editing software package called DxO Photolab. Here I thought I would cover what I learned about how to use masks as I applied it to a black and white image, I was processing. The original image I
Fuji GFX 100s ii
This is probably the area of photography I enjoy the least—and that says a lot, considering I once developed my own film and printed images in the darkroom. First and foremost, I’m a cheapskate. I refuse to pay for a subscription to editing software like Adobe Photoshop. For
weminuche wilderness
A bright flash followed by a sputtering orange light that incandesced, guttered, and extinguished as the sharp crack of thunder bellowed through the forest. For that moment the tent felt like lying inside an electric lamp as it burned out. The rain, at first tip taps on the nylon, now
GF500 f5.6
Wilderness culture
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Summer camping on Lake Pend d’Oreille
Swallows
In the Hopi creation myth a swallow was created out of clay by the medicine men as the first messenger or emissary sent from the third world to look above the sky for a better world to live in. The third world, where they lived, had become corrupt because the
GF500 f5.6
Some time back I purchased a rather absurd lens; a 500mm f5.6 monster. Obstensively, to add a new angle to my landscape photography. I shoot a lot of intimate landscape and that lends itself to a longer lens. Some time ago asked what focal length one would shoot for
Rio Grande
We have met our friends and together we setup our respective camps perched on the pinion-juniper-sage desert rim of basalt above the Rio Grande. Here the river runs straight south in a gorge it carved deeply into the basalt plateau. Behind us are the Sangre De Cristo mountains. The days
Colorado
Dolores means sorrow and for this river one can feel it. We camped along its tepid shores this evening under the sycamore maples with strange bird song and the sound of the river through the underbrush. High above us rise rugged rocky red canyon walls that reflect the light from
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As May has now ended I feel I should give some report of spring here in the Idaho Panhandle. At least my impression. It was drier than I remember in the past few years. The lupins seem more numerous and even now are blazing the south facing hillsides. Flowers are
GF500 f5.6
As Mollie and I left the car park to walk the track on the edge of the meadow, I could hear the staccato call of the Pileated Woodpecker. Similar to the Northern Flicker, it tends to be shorter and a little deeper to my ear. We walked the path which
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They never-tell