Category: Photo Stories

Articles that looks at some photos and discusses some details.

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mesquite Dunes – Death Valley

This is one of my first photos from Death Valley that popped out to me while going through my Lightroom catalog. I wasn’t planning on visiting the Mesquite Dunes, but since they were just right off the road, we stopped by. It actually took a bit of wandering around to find some peaks that hadn’t…
Venice Beach Pier – Blue Infinity

This shot is another one from the night I went to Venice Beach. I go to Venice a lot; it’s kind of my get-away beach, but the other night, I went there specifically to take photos. I might do it again this week sometime since my auto mechanic is down there for my wife’s Saab.…