Author: Alik Griffin

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.
Trail Through Mariposa Grove

After staying in Yosemite Valley all day and night, it was time to head home. On the way back, we stopped at the Mariposa Grove, the largest Sequoia Grove in Yosemite. There was this cool little bridge, and the sun was peaking out just for a second to warm up the trees a bit with…
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…
Looking up at the Yosemite Falls

I was lucky enough to get to go to Yosemite for the second time this weekend. One of the many great things about being married to my Japanese wife is when her friends and family visit from Japan, they always want to go on awesome road trips. We considered going to the Grand Canyon this…
California Purple Daisies

I don’t usually take pictures of flowers, but my mom was with me, and she told me to. She actually had a few cool ideas about how I could take pictures of flowers that would look awesome hung on walls. Giant macro photos and paintings of flowers are sort of in style right now, and…
The Wife and Me in Death Valley

This was taken at the Mesquite Dunes in Death Valley. This is one of those: frame the camera, set the timer, and run. It was a lot of back-and-forth to get it just right, but I had fun. It’s now one of my favorite photos of my wife and me. It was all her idea,…
My Photography Gear

A long list of the cameras lenses and gear I use regularly when traveling or shooting around town. Current Camera Kit Sony A7rII – 42mp landscape photography beast. I love the image quality this camera puts out and use it mostly for my landscapes. It’s a great camera but its far from perfect. Fujifilm X-T2…
Golden Mudstones of Death Valley

These eroded mudstones are located in the Badlands of Death Valley. The actual location for these is at Zabriskie Point. It’s amazing what nature is capable of. These mudstones look almost like a close-up of an insect’s shell or an alien structure. Walking on them even feels weird—almost like the ground is hollow or very…