Author: Alik Griffin

Fiery Goju-no-to Pagoda Japan

The Goju-no-to is a five-story Pagoda located in Miyajima, Japan. These buildings often function as places of worship, most commonly Buddhist. The Goju-no-to is located near the Itsukushima Shrine on a small island near Hiroshima. I’ve been to Miyajima twice, and the location still amazes me. It’s one of my favorite places in Japan to…
Hanuman, The Mighty Warrior Monkey

This is Hanuman, the mighty warrior monkey. One of the characters from the Kecak Dance of Bali Indonesia, Hama, allies himself to save his wife, Sita, from the clutches of Rahwana. Hunaman is a hero and a fan favorite of the Kecak Dance. This is part of a series of photos I’m doing from the…
Rolling Mesquite Dunes of Death Valley

The Mesquite sand dunes in Death Valley, California, are quite the sight. I really enjoyed my time there wondering around these dunes in the heat. It really is hard to walk around in these dunes. The sand is always sliding out from beneath your feet, and it takes so much more energy just to get…
How To Export From Lightroom To Instagram

This guide will show you how I transfer my photos from Lightroom to Instagram. It’s pretty easy and only requires a few relatively quick steps. This technique works from Photoshop and is the same on PC and Mac. What Not To Do – Using Lightroom Mobile If you edit your photos on Lightroom mobile and…
The Great Yosemite Valley

This HDR photo is taken from the view right as you enter Yosemite Valley. It’s pretty breathtaking in real life. There is so much scale and scope to this place that you feel so small driving through it—kind of like the Grand Canyon. I like this place better, though. There is more to do. I…
Venice Beach Walk

This photo was taken between Venice Beach and Marina Del Ray at around sunset. I was more on the Marina Del Ray side looking towards the Venice Beach Pier.
Low Tide at Miyajima Japan

I like shooting HDR. It allows you to pull so much more color and shadows out of a scene. I shoot HDR in a lot of my photos, but I try to avoid that ‘HDR Look’ since that’s not really my thing. I do encourage people to shoot HDR, though, so they can get deep…
Rocky Bali Reef Break

The beautiful rocky reefs of Bali make for some really interesting and picture-perfect beach landscapes. In my last few photos, I’ve been playing around more with some retro light leak looks in Photoshop. It seems to add a new life to some of my old photos I never bothered processing because they didn’t have that…
Jungle Rice Fields of Bali

While touring a temple deep in the jungles of Bali, we immersed ourselves in this awesome sight. There are some rice fields in the clearing. It seems that in Bali, Indonesia, where there are no trees, you can almost always count on there being rice fields. For more from the Bali rice terraces, the Rice…
Sun Flares at Yosemite Falls

There are two types of Landscape Photographers. Those that have a monks patience and can sit around waiting for the time of day and weather to be perfect, and those who know Photoshop. I did a lot of Photoshop work on this one. Here is what it looked like out of my camera. To get…