The Pine Barrens At Night
As landscape photographers, sometimes we need to let the landscape tell the story and provide our interpretation in how we compose our photographs.
Colorado Rocky Mountains
Photography On A Time Budget Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, a dream trip for a landscape photographer right? Well, not this time. When we visited Colorado to attend a family wedding, time was limited to mostly enjoying the company of family and old friends. Although there was no time to hike into the Rocky Mountains and find some beautiful remote back country [...]
Night
The inspiration of a single painting Night by Richard Lewis 2014 Followers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of the 20th century landscape painters from the New Hope, Pennsylvania area known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists. One particular painting John Folinsbee has always stuck with me. In this painting of a New Hope street, the Moon illuminates the [...]
Shooting Alaska
Some random landscapes from an amazing trip. My wife and I prefer to travel alone so we can set our own pace and go where we choose to. Alaska's Inside Passage is a large wilderness waterway that is only accessible by ship or plane. To travel on our own there would have been beyond our means, so we chose a small cruise ship (pictured below) that carried 60 [...]
Super Moon in New Jersey
Swatting mosquitos in the Pine Barrens to get the shot Super Moon in the Pine Barrens by Richard Lewis 2014 Maybe it was the news hype or social media pressure, but on Sunday night I was standing next to an old cranberry bog as the August Super Moon made its appearance in the sky. I enjoyed the quiet evening setting up [...]
The Blue Hour – Photographing in Low Light.
The Blue Hour by Richard Lewis 2014 We photographers live for the golden hours. That is the time just before and after sunrise and sunset when the world is illuminated with beautiful gold, yellow and red hues. I am also becoming a big fan of another time that is called the blue hour. This is the twilight time between darkness [...]
Life in Death Valley – Part 3
The Bad Lands of Death Valley Spending time in Death Valley National Park was an overwhelmingly creative experience. I think it is for many artists because it is one of the most beautiful and strangely diverse landscapes in America. This is the third of several posts about life in Death Valley. The Badlands Morning in the Badlands by Richard Lewis 2013 Badlands [...]