Habitat on Morro Rock

Photo made with a Canon 20d and 70-200 f2.8 lens

Another image from my trip to Morro Bay and Rock. I was honestly blown away with the oddity of Morro Rock just poking up out of no where. The wildlife loved it. This picture is showing the many varied gulls and other sea birds that use the rock for habitat for mating or whatever they have in mind.

As you circle around the rock it is amazing to see different ecosystems that are in place just around the corner. This was primarily gull nests and perches. The other side was dominated my Cormorants and an area in between is primarily habitat for sparrows from what I could see just considering the birds and not even mammals insects or whatever else may have been out there.

Understanding what life is doing and where they like to do their thing is key to getting great photographs, and the opportunity to make those photographs. Always be sure to so some research to understand better what is going on in the subjects life and you will be in a much better place to get the photos you want!

Have a great day and happy shooting...

Sunset Beach

An amazing sunset on the harbor area of Morro Bay California. This day was amazing, the light, location and beauty of the say definetely came together in a perfect day. Days like this come only once in a while...today I got great shots with almost every click of the shutter. Days like this are what I live for.

I will soon be updating several hundered more shots that came from this week of shooting in California, so stay tuned!

Stock Photography

Hello All,

I have been working pretty hard lately on several aspects of Hidden Light Photography. I am pretty excited about these things to be sure. One of which is the website that plays home to my fine art prints, www.hiddenlightphotography.com. This is way exciting to see grow on an almost daily basis. I have finally gotten to the point that I can make small changes and improvements and actually see progress day to day. This for me is quite rewarding.

I am also working on my stock photography. This I have finally gotten a place that will host it and provide several of my other wants and needs in Photoshelter. you can find them at www.photoshelter.com, and my area at http://www.photoshelter.com/usr-show/U0000F95ePtOEY8M. They offer good back up capabilities, but even better easy search options and quick and painless gallery creation. They also have many other features that I look forward to use as well when I get to them. I really enjoy how it looks and feels. I will be there for a long while.

The news about the stock photography is that I will soon have my 1000th photo online. This is exciting but only the beginning to be sure. I still have around 20,000 photos at least that are waiting for attention. I have finally hammered out a work flow that is productive...not to use puns but it actually flows. I can now actually shoot and get work available and search able in a fast turn around.

Anyway that is what I have been working on lately in between research for my masters and doctors appointments with my wife for pregnancy. The next photo that I post will be #500!

July Print of the Month

Canon 20D, Sigma 18-125mm f3.5-5.6

I have finally gotten the Print of the Month up for July of 2007. I am a bit later than I wanted as usual, but the site is growing daily and this was unfortunate to be left for a bit later than I wanted.

I wish I could fire my I.T. department but then I would have to look for work elsewhere so I am going to let myself go on this one again. Such is life.

This photograph is another from the Ruby Valley Project. I have been shooting and editing this project for years (shooting seriously for 9 months solid of that time). This project was both a lesson of focus and of love. I had to focus on one single place with so many huge areas of potential for months at a time. Before I left the valley in northern Nevada I had loved and hated the place on a roller coaster ride of artistic emotion so many times I can hardly count. Now that I am not living there for at least the moment I miss it dearly. I feel that I have not yet even tapped actual potential that may exist there after photographing for about 9 months.

Anyway enough rambling about the RVProject. It will soon be available as a monograph or set of monographs depending on what I end up with. I am currently working through about 20,000 images that have already gone through rough editing several times (removing obvious duds and keeping only keepers...) and now are being giving a final work through. I am excited to see how the project will shape itself. I think that I am currently headed for a three part monograph with maybe around 100 photos total, if I can narrow it down that much.

So the moral of this post is to edit after your shoot the same day, but also that projects really do often shape them selves into what they need and ought to be if they are given the time needed for the spirit and creativity present in the subject to show through.

Have a great day and have fun making photographs today!