After witnessing this beautiful sunset at Lake Geneva near Montreux, Switzerland I felt as though I had been struck with inspiration in the same manner influential European painters like Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet had years earlier. This timeless moment exemplified a misty/smokey golden light that I had seen so many times before in [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.19.2010 at 1:07 am// Tagged: Fine Art, Landscape, Locations, Nature, Photography, Stock Photo, Switzerland, Travel , Fine Art, Landscape, Photography, Stock Photos, Travel
I used to have the opportunity to look out at this view of the Channel Islands, off the coast of Santa Barbara, for 8 years, but seldom took the time to look and take it all in. Whether I was too busy to pause and fully enjoy the view or just took it for granted, [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.17.2010 at 1:12 am// Tagged: Landscape, Locations, Nature, Photography, Santa Barbara, Stock Photo , Landscape, Photography, Stock Photos, Travel
My photography has transformed over the past couple of years thanks in part to the advent of photography apps on the iPhone. Reference information, in particular, now available on iPhone apps has made a special impact. My iPhone now is a critical photography tool when I’m in the field. Always on the look out for [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.16.2010 at 12:01 am// Tagged: App, Photography, Reviews, Technology, iPhone , App, iPhone, Photography, Review
Funny thing about photography, it’s all things to all people.
There’s never just one “right way” to learn it.
There’s never just one “right way” to do it.
There’s never just one “right way” to develop or post-process it.
There’s infinite subjects.
There’s never just one “right way” to share or show it.
There’s an audience for virtually every subject.
You can [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.15.2010 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Philosophy, Photography , Art, Philosophy, Photography
Locations to enjoy quiet are few and far between these days. Fewer and fewer locations exist where you can go to avoid hearing man and/or man made objects. Even when I was in the Arctic it was common to hear small planes and on one rare occasion a jumbo jet. As an artist I thoroughly [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.11.2010 at 2:06 am// Tagged: California, Fine Art, Locations, Nature, Photography, Stock Photo, Yosemite , Fine Art, Photography, Stock Nature, Stock Photos
As you’re probably aware the iPad is on the way and its going to save the world! All will be right again when the Apple iPad hits the streets in early April. Nikon and Canon photographers will sing Kumbaya together, dogs will get along with cats and newspapers will again be profitable… well you’d think [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.09.2010 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Photography, Technology, iPad , Apple, iPad, Photography, Technology
“Gates of the Valley” has always been a vantage point that exemplifies the beauty of Yosemite National Park. While many of us know iconic Yosemite from the “tunnel view”, it is the ground level view of “‘Gates of the Valley” that provides a sense of scale that eternally entrances me. Taking in this view with [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.08.2010 at 10:55 am// Tagged: California, Fine Art, Landscape, Locations, Nature, Photography, Stock Photo, Yosemite , Fine Art, Landscape, Photography, Stock Photos, Yosemite
Few places in my travels have made as lasting an impression on me as those I’ve visited along Highway 89. There is not a week that goes by that my mind doesn’t wander to places I’ve visited on Highway 89. The landscapes, people and small towns that make up this portion of the United States [...]
Posted by Jim on 03.08.2010 at 12:01 am// Tagged: Photography, Reviews , Photography, Review