July 2010 Wallpaper: Sunset Over Great Falls

The summer sun sets in glorious colors over Great Falls in Potomac, Maryland.

July wallpaper is ready for download – click on the links below for the resolution and aspect ratio that best match your computer screen:

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Great Falls Sunset: Vision Doesn't End with the Click of the Shutter

The summer sun sets in glorious colors over Great Falls in Potomac, Maryland.

I’ve been contemplating the image-creation process this week, as I work on a series of images of Great Falls.  I thought I’d share some of my musings about the three essential steps to great image-making:

Step 1: Defining your vision for the image [...]

Last weekend for "Of Fairytale Kingdoms" Fine Art Photography Exhibit!

Hey, so I’ve been getting lots of great feedback from people who’ve seen my current exhibit, “Of Fairytale Kingdoms,” at the Arlington Public Library, Central Branch in Virginia.  This weekend is the last weekend of the show, so do stop by if you have a chance, and leave me a message on this blog if [...]

May 2010 Wallpaper: Hoodoo Nation I

View of the hoodoos from Inspiration Point at Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah. Thin, protruding spires of rock, hoodoos have been formed over thousands of years by water, wind, ice, and gravity. The northern section of Bryce Canyon National Park boasts the largest concentration of hoodoos in the world.

Here’s my May 2010 [...]

Prepping for My Next Next Exhibit: Of Fairytale Kingdoms

Last weekend, I was prepping for my next next exhibit, picking out the 10 images, figuring out what sizes I’ll print them in, and drawing out the schematic of their placement.  My next next exhibit will be at the Arlington Public Library, Central Library Branch in Virginia, and I’m calling it, “Of Fairytale Kingdoms.”  Since I just [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 13: Arches National Park, End-of-the-Road

Alas, this is our last morning in Utah before heading home to Washington, DC, so we definitely had to get up for the sunrise.  Of all the places we’ve seen around Moab, I must say that Turret Arch by the North and South Windows is my hands down favorite.  It’s where we started on Day [...]

Playing around in Photoshop: Day for Night

I was playing around with OnOne Plug-In Suite 5 on my Utah Parks Road Trip Day 12 photo of Landscape Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.  Check out this look.  It’s called “Day for Night.”  I like it… 

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Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, Utah

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 12: Arches National Park and Behind-The-Rocks, Moab, aka Day of the Fruitless Search for Mystical Tukuhnikivats

We’re exshausted, having spent the afternoon on a wild goose – or should I say wild arch – chase through the Moab wilderness.  We were searching for that most mystical of arches, Tukuhnikivats, the unpronouncable.  No one we asked had ever heard of it, not the park rangers at Arches National Park nor the woman who [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 11: Arches National Park, aka The Day I Almost Died

OK, perhaps I’m being a little dramatic.  But still, this is the day that I’ll never forget.  The day my Yaktrax fell into the abyss.  The day I was stuck way out in the funnel.  The day I was too paralyzed to move forward, too petrified to move back. 

Like always, it all started out in an [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 10: Capitol Reef, Goblin Valley State Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Canyonlands National Park

Today was a hell of a day – we hit two national parks and two state parks.  First, we got up for the sunrise at Capitol Reef National Park.  We were told that Notom Road, which runs north-south on the other side of the rocks of Capitol Reef, is a good place to catch the [...]