Several blog posts ago I mentioned that I come across places that I like but don’t know how to photograph and I keep these places in mind and try to come back to them with new ideas. One such place is a patch of ashe juniper trees with a hiking trail leading through it. This… Read More A Foggy Trail in the Woods
I got up early Saturday and went out to Inks Lake ostensibly to shoot wildlife. There is rocky place to pull over and park near the edge of the lake if you have a high enough clearance vehicle, and I figured I would go there and shoot birds until the park opened a little later.… Read More Birds and Foliage
Often I come across a location that I think could be photographed well under the right conditions. I keep coming back to these locations in my mind and in person trying sort out what to do with it. One such location was the overlook along the hiking trail in my previous post that I eventually… Read More What to do with the Pecan Flats Trail
This time of year the sun rises quite late, for me anyway, and this made it easy to get out to the wildlife refuge and hike up to an overlook before the sun crested the eastern horizon. There were sadly no clouds, so there was no predawn color-show to be there for, but I knew… Read More Dawn’s Early Light
In the past I have made calendars to send out as Christmas gifts. If I am going to bother taking thousands of photos every year, it makes sense for me to do something with them besides let them sit in digital file form on a computer’s hard drive. So, I try to make things like… Read More A Calendar
There has been a comet called Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the evening sky lately and I had never tried to photograph a comet before. So, on a clear-sky Sunday afternoon I went to the Warbler Vista section of the wildlife refuge for some hiking with the plan to end up at the sunset deck (which coincidentally faces… Read More A Comet from the Wildlife Refuge
I went out to Enchanted Rock last weekend hoping to get some inspiration for landscape photos. I have spent so much time editing photos from my trip in August that I haven’t really done much. I have also been patiently waiting for the September heat to let go, and in mid-October it is still here.… Read More Late Summer at Enchanted Rock
On our last morning in the Svalbard fjords, we spent a lot of time looking at some massive glaciers. On this morning we were also getting some sunlight occasionally through the clouds lighting up the mountains. I took the following panorama from the deck of the ship with a long lens. I didn’t think much… Read More Ice Cave
On the NorthEast side of the island of Spitsbergen at a place called Alkefjellet, there are high cliffs and ledges used by birds to breed and raise chicks in the summer months. The main bird on the cliff was the Brünnich’s Guillemot and there were tens of thousands of them on the cliffs, in the… Read More The Bird Cliffs of Alkefjellet
On the second day of my Svalbard expedition, the ship sailed around the southern end of Spitsbergen Island and we had an opportunity for an excursion ashore for a hike. This also means that no polar bears were spotted or else they would never have let us go on shore. But I didn’t mind because… Read More Beautiful Gloominess
Jason Frels 