Seeing the Entire Scene
As you might imagine, between my own images, my photo workshop participants’ images, browsing other photographers’ pages, and simply being connected to social media, I see a lot of images. A. Lot. Of....
View ArticleIceland Light Show
I’ve seen comets, a meteor storm, fireballs, a total solar eclipse, lots of lunar eclipses, the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Magellanic Clouds, Jupiter’s moons, Saturn’s rings, and many other...
View ArticleLove What You Shoot
Feel the love One frequently uttered piece of photographic advice is to “shoot what you love.” And while photographing the locations and subjects we love most is indeed pretty essential to consistently...
View ArticleA Horsetail of a Different Color
Last week’s Yosemite photo workshop was ostensibly about Horsetail Fall, but it turned out to be so much more than that. In fact, after photographing more snow than I’ve seen in Yosemite in many (many)...
View ArticleFinding Focus in the Grand Canyon
I returned Friday from my annual Grand Canyon Raft Trip for Photographers and am playing catch-up on all aspects of my photography life. I’ve barely looked at the my raft trip images, but chose this...
View ArticleNew Zealand Reflection
What a crazy life this is. Last month I was rafting the Grand Canyon in short pants and flip-flops, this month I’m bouncing around the New Zealand countryside in my warmest wool and down. Between...
View ArticleNew Zealand Beauty
I just returned from New Zealand, that remarkable upside-down world where water is clear, summer is winter, and today is yesterday (or maybe it’s the other way around). I’ve been visiting there for a...
View ArticleThe Longest Day
After one of the most exhausting, exhilarating, and just plain productive photography days of my life, our van rolled into Wanaka a little before midnight and everyone’s thoughts, including my own,...
View ArticleStarry Night
It’s midnight and I’m right back where my day had started 21 hours earlier. Standing in the frigid dark beside Lake Wanaka, I feel equal parts energized and exhausted by the longest photography day of...
View ArticleChasing the Northern Lights
After finally witnessing a total solar eclipse and declaring it the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, I started hearing people say things like, “Wait until you see the northern lights.” So when...
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There’s A Draft In Here
Daybreak, Mono LakeSony a7RIIISony 16-35 f/2.8 GM4 secondsF/18ISO 200 True story: I once had a workshop participant who put her Nikon D4 in continuous mode, metered, then pressed the shutter and...
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want…
Autumn Accent, Half Dome, YosemiteSony a7RIVSony 24-105 G1 secondF/16ISO 100 (Offered with apologies to the Rolling Stones) I looked that night at the reflection My focus app in my hand I pondered my...
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It’s About Time
Winter Glaze, Valley View, YosemiteSony a7RIIISony/Zeiss 24-70 f4.6 secondsF/16ISO 50 Among the many things I’m giving thanks for this Thanksgiving weekend is the return of rain and snow to California....
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On the other hand…
Winter Chill, Bridalveil Fall Reflection, YosemiteSony a7RIVSony 24-105 G1/8 secondsF/10ISO 100 On Wednesday I wrote about featuring the sky in my images, and how my love for all things astronomical...
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Yosemite Full Moon Bingo
Winter Moon Reflection, Half Dome, YosemiteSony a7RIVSony 24-105 G1/5 secondsF/10ISO 100 Do you have little games you play in your head? Private challenges that range from small amusements to...
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Good Times at Badwater
Sunset Reflection, Badwater, Death ValleySony a7RIVSony 12-24 G.8 secondsF/11ISO 100 When I decided to make my living as a photographer, about 15 years ago, I promised myself that I would photograph...
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Yosemite Horsetail Fall update, February 2020
Horsetail Fall Light (but no visible water), Merced River, YosemiteSony a7RIVSony 24-105 G3 2/3 secondsF/11ISO 100 On Thursday night I returned from a week in Yosemite following back-to-back workshops...
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To Polarize, or Not to Polarize
Click to view slideshow. One of my most frequently asked questions during a workshop shoot is, “Should I use my polarizer here?” Of course that’s an impossible question to answer absolutely because as...
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Hunkered Down
Sand Like Glass, Bandon Beach Sunset, OregonSony a7RIIISony 16-35 GM1/30 secondF/18ISO 100 So how has your world been upended by the coronavirus? Fortunate for me, mine so far has been firmly pegged on...
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2019 Highlights: Social Distancing Edition
What have you been doing with your spring “vacation.” Sequestered here in the Gary Hart Photography World Headquarters, I’ve been spending a lot of time going through my 2019 images and have already...
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