This was not the final image that I had in mind to post here. In the true final version, the pylon found towards the center right of the frame and the little bit of land mass in the upper left corner of the frame would have been cloned out. It’s not that they’re out of ... Read More »
Mordor’s beachfront
April 3, 2013
My great friend, +hris Chabot, just posted a fantastic image of Mordor’s sunset and it immediately reminded me of an image that I had in the hopper waiting to be posted. I think the two complement each other quite nicely and would look great in a vacation brochure for Mordor’s board of tourism. :) In reality, ... Read More »
Why wait?
April 1, 2013
You could imagine the foot traffic that the Cape Otway Lighthouse in Australia had on this gorgeous day. And why should it be any different? The Great Ocean Road. Plenty of warm sun. A beautiful lighthouse. It’s a recipe for lots of people enjoying themselves. And then there is the photographer with the tripod and bag ... Read More »
The face in the distance
March 31, 2013
I’ve come to really love dancing around different parts of beaches as the tide comes in. Each wave offers new potential for the sort of motion that you can capture as it breaks against rocks. Originally, I intended on cropping this more as a pano but decided to keep the aspect ratio intact because of ... Read More »
Takin’ her easy on this Sunday
March 31, 2013
If there is one singular theme for this weekend, it’s just to go with the flow and enjoy what’s presented to you. Most of the time, I have no idea what I’d done to deserve all of the great people and things that have become part of my life but I am trying to remain ... Read More »
The risks of a photographer
March 30, 2013
Ultimately, you have to ask yourself just how willing you are to risk your safety, or more importantly, the safety of your gear to get a shot that you think will really sing. There’s nothing quite as dampening (pun totally intended) as getting your camera soaked with salt water, as I learned earlier this week ... Read More »
Front and center
March 29, 2013
This has been, without a shred of doubt, the craziest week of my life. As I wind down my first week as a Googler, all I can think about is kicking back this weekend with a cold beer. :) I think more than a handful of you can relate, no? Read More »
Serendipity in action
March 27, 2013
I really was overwhelmed yesterday by the amount of kind and positive responses to my announcement of joining Google as the Community Manager for Google+ Photos. Typically, I don’t really publicly discuss the gears and machinations of my personal life, especially as it relates to the back end of my professional one but I felt it ... Read More »
Brian Matiash. Meet Google.
March 26, 2013
Ever since its launch, Google+ has always been my favorite place to share imagery and to be inspired by the creativity of this community. It truly is a wondrous place for photographers to learn, grow, and network. That’s why I’m so excited to announce that I have joined the Google+ team as Community Manager for Google+ ... Read More »
The Life Of A Wave
March 22, 2013
I’ve always been a believer of knowing what your capabilities are with your camera when you’re out in the field. But, it also is worth expanding on that idea. It’s also important to know what your incapabilities are, too. It’s about knowing what you simply can’t achieve because of physics or time. It’s also about ... Read More »
The Inevitable Path
March 21, 2013
One of my favorite things about photographing at this Bandon, OR beach in the evening was watching the transformation of colors as each minute went by. I plopped myself behind this one rock because served as a really nice foreground element and had a convenient tide pool forming around it. It’s always nice when peace ... Read More »
Shady Proximity
March 20, 2013
Of all the days that we spent in Australia, our time in the Barossa Valley, outside of Adelaide, provided us with the most dramatic and spectacular clouds. While on our unforgettable Daimler tour through the region, we stopped to photograph this lonesome tree. It quickly became apparent that next to the tree were two flocks ... Read More »
Sad Loo
March 19, 2013
Yesterday, I wrote about the importance of having a foreground element within a landscape/seascape photo. This anchor serves as a start and end point for the viewer’s eyes and gives them a place to rest. The same principle is held true for this sort of UrbEx scene. When Amy Heiden and I broke off to make ... Read More »
Beauty in chaos
March 18, 2013
So there I was, chatting away with some of Melbourne’s wonderful local photographers when I got a call from Nicole S. Young. She was further ahead on the route for our Melbourne, Australia photowalk. She frantically told me to make my way over to her because she found something that she was sure I’d love. That gal ... Read More »
Coming and going
March 18, 2013
I took this shot the other week at Point Hamilton, along the Great Ocean Road in Australia. Whenever I shoot these sorts of seascapes, I find it critical to have some sort of dominant foreground anchor. If you can picture this image without the rock in it, I think you’ll agree that it’ll fall a ... Read More »
Babbling on
March 17, 2013
I didn’t really want to do much of anything today. I’m still fighting all sorts of odd jet lag from Australia but I think I’m at the tail end of it. Still, the prospect of doing absolutely nothing today sounded perfect. Nicole S. Young and Brian Bonham had other things to say about that. The three of ... Read More »
The pedestrians of Face Rock
March 16, 2013
I took this shot when I visited Bandon, OR with +Matt Kloskowski about two months ago. There was a large grouping of these seagulls and I remember hustling to get into position so that I had Face Rock on the right and the setting sun on the left. The key was to get into position without ... Read More »
Down We Go
March 15, 2013
Maybe it’s the general chaos that you can find on an UrbEx shoot but I think all of it lends to how I see while I roam these hallways. Amy Heiden was off in another corridor doing her thing while I held a crazy session of Really Right Stuff Tripod Yoga. I distinctly remember the position of ... Read More »
The Apostles at first blush
March 14, 2013
Our last full day in Australia began watching the sun first kiss the tops of the famous Apostles. There used to be twelve of them but, alas, there are fewer of them standing today. Getting to this site was pretty easy, actually. It was a 45 minute drive and then a climb of about 40 or ... Read More »
Melbourne and its laneways
March 13, 2013
This post is coming to you live from 32,000 feet in the air. We landed safely in LAX after a 14 hour flight from Australia and even managed to get on an earlier flight back to Portland (bonus!). If there is one part of Melbourne that truly stuck out for me, it was its laneways. Nicole and ... Read More »