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I am fortunate to live in an area rich in natural beauty. So many great public lands available to access and enjoy all year long. Some of my favorite beautiful state parks are under an hours drive away. How much more could you ask for.
Well, you could ask for a state park that takes those beautiful close to home state parks and scales them up to the next level. And that is exactly what Letchworth State Park does. And this park is still only around a 1.5 hour drive from home for me. It is kind of mind blowing.
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I really like working with colors and shapes. Contrast of dark and light. Details versus softness.
I think that is what I find when I see a photo of an inanimate object that I really like. There is a quality of contrast about it. There is an interplay of two things that don’t quite go together.
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Running has brought me a lot of things over the years. One of the most important things running has brought into my life is friendship and community. After several years of battling a variety of different nagging injuries that have kept me from being as much of a part of the running community as I would want to be I was feeling a little lost in my pursuit of running.
I have struggled with thoughts about why do I even run anymore. What kind of runner am I? Am I even a runner anymore? I haven’t been able to do the things in running that make me love running. Last year I was finally able to get back to that a little bit. But then this year another injury setback has me full of doubt just when I was building hope for the future.
I am the kind of person that likes to dream up big adventures and take on big challenges. That is part of what drew me to ultra running. But that has been out of my reach for the most part lately. But dreaming up big things has always been part of me.
And when it comes to running I have always dreamed of putting on running events.
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I don’t do a lot of photography off pre arranged or set up subjects. And I don’t do a lot of photography indoors. Most of what I photograph is the interaction of me with some mostly natural occurrence. Something I did not orchestrate.
Several years ago I undertook a challenge to create and share at least one photograph every single day for the entire year. The goal of this was to stretch my creativity. Find new ways to create photography. Work with different subjects.
The result of that was working with some still life type subjects.
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I love art. I love to create art. And I love to photograph art.
I like to photograph art in ways that showcases it differently. Trying to put a spin on it that makes it look a little different than it does when you first look at it.
I often photograph large pieces of art. But I find one or more aspects of the overall piece that I find particularly interesting and I zoom in and focus on those things. Maybe it is something that might go overlooked or unnoticed when taking in the larger piece.
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Salamanders are so cool and very elusive. I wish I spent as much time looking for them and successfully finding them now as I did as a child.
Sometimes I get lucky and just find a salamander right where I can train my lens on it. It always seems if I am intentionally seeking out a salamander to photograph I can never find one.
I have seen salamanders on the edges of rock walls. And I have found them under rocks.
But one of the coolest experiences was finding them right in my own back yard. Just out in the open.
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My wife and I really enjoy camping. It is one of our favorite was to take a break from the every day. We try to find a campground that looks nice and scenic. Often staying at state parks. And we try to pick a campsite within the campground that seems at least a little more removed from the other campsites so we can have more privacy and more nature.
This year we didn’t have quite as much freedom in choice because we decided to take our camping trip around the 4th of July holiday weekend. When we started looking for places to camp a lot of places were already full for the time we wanted to be there. Usually we avoid the holidays so everything is less busy wherever we plan to be. But this year we decided to try something different.
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I photograph a wide variety of subjects. I generally photograph what I love. And I love wildlife.
I don’t photograph wildlife as much as I would like even though wildlife photography was my inspiration for starting this photography journey. I think a large part of this is because wildlife photography has a large component of luck. We rely on the animals showing up, and there is no guarantee that will actually happen.
Especially since I am only able to pursue my photography on a part time basis I have a hard time committing my limited time and resources to a venture that may yield zero results.
But when I do take the time and make that commitment I enjoy the results I am able to achieve.
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One of the many things I never saw coming when I began this journey into photography is how much I would end up enjoying photography of insects. They come in so many shapes and sizes. And insects are so interesting looking. Especially when you are able to get a good look at them.
And getting a good look at them is the whole point of nature photography. Capture a fleeting moment forever. Take time to study it and absorb it and become one with that little slice of nature in that moment.
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I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love seeing the leaves change colors in the fall. Maybe that is you, but it definitely is not me. I love the changing colors of tree leaves.
I love the time of year when the leaves start to change. The new colors appearing in the world bring a new sense of vibrancy to being outside in the cooling temperatures of the season. I am all for any and all color changes and new things to photograph. However, I really love when I can find red leaves to photograph.
