Yosemite Falls in the winter shot with a 400mm lens with 1.4x converter.
So I have three websites for my three kinds of photography. There's three because I don't want to have one website with a pile of work on it confusing people and being too much. So my Bend Wedding photography site is only weddings and engagement portraits. My Bend Portrait photography website is only portraits. If a couple planning a wedding goes onto my wedding site they don't want to have to sift through pictures of Yosemite or wherever. They want to look at weddings.
The blog for that and the portrait site are different than this one, too. Here's how: those sites are concerned with the customers and making them happy. So every wedding and portrait I do is of the best person or people of all time. For the most part they are indeed amazing, beautiful people I would love to call friends. It's a joy to be their photographer and see them be so happy with my work.
This one the granite in Yosemite or sandstone in Escalante or water in the ocean don't care if I like them or not. They have other things on their minds than some words being typed out by a photographer on a Friday night.
This blog will be my favorite, because it's about the natural world and how I see and record it. An Art Nouveau style of photography and a blog devoted to it for me to share my ideas.
A combination of seeing the world and using machines called cameras to record and share it with you at this website and blog.
This picture was inspired by an Ansel Adams photo of the upper falls taken from Fern Ledge. I'm guessing Fern Ledge is on the far lower right of this picture. Every time I go to Yosemite it's a mystery how he climbed up there. I would love to try getting to this ledge and do some pictures.
I was driving back to the campground for cold morning breakfast and looked over to see this beautiful rainbow on the falls. In photojournalism a person learns to fill the photo frame from left to right, top to bottom with the essential information in a picture. For this I wanted only the rainbow. I also wanted to show the ledge with the pine tree to give an idea of how massive it was in real life.
A regular 70-200mm lens wouldn't be able to do this. However, my big 400mm lens with a 1.4X converter could do the trick.
On the website I talk about Fuji Velvia giving colors and contrasts you can't even see with your eyes. I didn't go fully digital until around 2009 and this picture was done around 2003 on Fuji Velvia. Another thing about color slide film is when you scan it into the computer the picture can't be overly adjusted like a digital picture from a digital camera. So these crazy colors are the colors of the film, not of my playing in the computer.
A couple years ago I switched over to mirrorless cameras and had to sell that 400mm lens. Now when looking around the house at the prints we have going and at this website I see a lot of my favorite pictures made with it. The cost of a new one is so high that it's tough to say if I'll ever get a chance to do pictures with one again.
If any of you many people reading this blog ever get a chance to shoot pictures with a super telephoto don't pass it up. You'll love the amazing pictures these big, heavy, and expensive lenses can do for you.