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Rainstorm in El Dorado State Park

August 16, 2024
I’m real proud of this one. I visited El Dorado State Park for the first time after getting a few hours early off of work. The canyon walls are sheer so storms tend to creep up on you suddenly. Rain clouds constantly passed overhead, alternating showers and sudden sun. As…

Hanging with the Sigma DP Merrill Cameras

July 27, 2023
It’s been quite some time since I’ve touched on my Sigma cameras. Specifically, my DP1 and DP2 Merrill cameras. I used to have the DP3 Merrill. But in a fit of mad desperation, I sent it to MPB in exchange for a pittance. I needed the money at the time…

Hiking in El Malpais

June 18, 2021
Continuing my landscape journey with the DP Merrill trio, I took an 80-minute drive out west, halfway to the New Mexico-Arizona border. This part of the state is called El Malpais (lit: ”bad country/lands, in Spanish). It gets its name from the lava flows that dot the region.…

Transitioning Over to Landscape Photography

June 2, 2021
It’s been a while but I’ve certainly been busy, especially when it comes to my photography. I’ve spent a lot of the pandemic thinking about precisely what my photography is for, exactly. Why do I make images? I think most photographers spend time thinking about this question as well,…

Lonely Landscapes

January 25, 2021
The wide normal view isn’t really ideal for landscape photography, is it? It’s wide…But not wide-angle. It’s tight…But not telephoto. In short: it’s really, really boring I’ve found it extremely challenging to work with at first because my landscape shots had a kind of “snapshot” element to them. But then…

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