Utah Parks Road Trip: Day 1, Arches National Park

 

"South Window," Arches National Park, Moab, Utah

It’s finally time for our Christmas-New Years Southern Parks of Utah Road Trip!  You never would have thought it would take 4 days to get from DC to Utah, but it’s already worth it!  In case you didn’t hear, the DC area’s biggest snowstorm in [...]

HDR: Love it or hate it?

I was interested to see the results recently of an HDR survey (love it or hate it) on Michael Zhang’s PetaPixel blog.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with HDR, it stands for high dynamic range imaging.  A digital camera sensor can only handle so much tonal range between light and dark.  If a [...]

I am in love with the Chincoteaue National Wildlife Refuge.

My husband and I just spent a 3-day weekend at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island, Virginia, with other members of the Gaithersburg Camera Club.  It was absolutely GORGEOUS!!!  There were thousands of beautiful snow geese – I’ve never seen anything like it!  Shortly after we first arrived on Friday afternoon, they [...]

Chincoteague, Assateague, here we come!!!

It’s Thursday night and my husband and I are getting ready for a 3 or 4-day photography trip to Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge and Assateague Island National Seashore.  We’ll leave tomorrow and come back on Monday.  Should have good weather, especially Sunday.  I might have been there before as a kid, but I don’t even remember!  [...]