• Smith Rock State Park, Oregon

    This year our family traveled cross-country and saw some amazing spots around the country. Over the next few posts I want to showcase a few of those scenic locations with a few favorite photos. The following come from Smith Rock State Park in Terrebonne, Oregon, a place that Naomi and I visited first back in …

  • Thor’s Well

    Our family has been traveling these vast American states since May and in August our highly anticipated northwest visit finally arrived. We would be spending two months mainly in the northwestern parts of Oregon and Washington states. Photographically speaking for me that means rocky beaches, impressive waterfalls and gloriously snowy mountains. Before heading out of …

  • Playing with HDR

    HDR (High Dynamic Range) is one of those promising and creative new fields that comes with the advent of digital SLRs and software that can merge multiple photos into one. The basic idea is that you “bracket” your images by getting different exposures and merging them together to recreate more or less what the human …

  • Top 11 pics of 2011 (post 7 of 9: Hiking Mulanje, Malawi)

    A month after ski camp (September), Mika joined me on a pretty tough 3-day hike up Mulanje Mountain in southern Malawi. I’ve been itching to truly climb this mountain ever since I first heard of it back in 2001 on my first visit to the area. Finally, we made it happen and a truly amazing …