Eastern Sierra Landscape Photography Workshop (part 1 of ??)

For those of you that have been following this blog, just a few, and I thank you, I will be including photos from the landscape photography workshop I took in mid October.  In addition to the course content I was hoping for fall color, and got it!  As usual I will incorporate some history and geography or general insight along with the images.

I have been adding photos of my hikes around north central New Mexico for quite some time showing some of the beauty and diverse landscape.  I certainly have not seen very much of New Mexico at this point but I am having fun making the effort.  I have always felt that I am and adequate photographer.  My images seem to ‘document’ NM with little artistic style.  I have been following different photography blogs for some time, see all kinds of spectacular landscape photography and wish to advance my photography.  While I may not approach the talent of these photographers I have a lot of room for improvement, hence the workshop.

I am a regular subscriber to Outdoor Photographer magazine, which inspires me every time I open the cover.  In the back there are many experienced photographers offering workshops.  I looked through many ads and websites looking for the one that suited my interest.  Jack Graham’s 20^th Annual Eastern Sierra Photo Workshop caught my eye.  His website and subsequent talking with him made my decision on a workshop easy.  The small class, 14, with two instructors and his mantra; Learn to See, Learn to Think, Learn to Create are what I am looking for.  I am not compensated for my plug of the workshop, I am a very satisfied student and if you are on the fence regarding a photo workshop I heartily suggest going, but definitely research first.

Alabama Hills

The first image is from the Alabama Hills Recreation Area outside of Lone Pine, CA.  We started early that day to be in position to catch sunrise on Mt. Whitney, the highest summit in the contiguous United States.

I will be adding stories about my experiences along with a few images.

Enjoy

Thank you for stopping by,

Mark

San Pedro Parks Wilderness Area, Rio Puerco, June 20

San Gregorio Reservoir

After hearing about the good fishing from one of our co-workers Byron and I decided to make the drive to the San Pedro Parks Wilderness Area.  It’s an easy but slightly long drive, divided highway almost the entire way until you turn off on SR 126 in Cuba.  We went on a Friday to avoid whatever crowds there may be, once we hiked past the San Gregorio Reservoir, about ¾ of a mile in, we didn't run into anybody until we were hiking back out mid-afternoon...

Pecos Wilderness, Rio Mora, Aug. 1

Rio Mora

We know we are taking a chance on hiking today.  The monsoon has appeared this July.  I hope I am not jinxing the balance of the year, but I think it may be wet enough that we will not have the widespread forest closure we have had the past several years due to the drought and subsequent fires.

Rio Cebolla,June 7

This time Byron came with me to catch some native cutthroat trout.

When I told him about running into a fly fisherman on my previous trip and learning about the cutthroats being up above the pond he was all over it.  He had to catch....

Rio Cebolla April 25

The Rio Cebolla Valley is one of my favorite places to hike.  After a lot of debate I found out that it is pronounced “See-boy’-a”, onion, in Spanish.  Evidently there were a lot of onions that grew there at one time.  I have not found any.....

Ojito Wilderness March 28

You are probably wondering what we are doing here yet again.  Well as I mentioned earlier this hike is close.  I’m certain that you have noticed from the pictures it is desolate, sun scorched and more than likely hot during the summer.  So we ...

Ojito Wilderness, Feb 28

I returned to Ojito again the end of February.  The first time I visited Ojito was April of 2013.  With the addition of my GPS I feel a little more comfortable with wandering farther into the wilderness.  I still have ...

Catching up

I knew it had been a while since I updated this blog, I didn't realize that it has been six months.  I’m sure I have lost a lot of readers, if I ever had that many.

To start off I’m including images from one of the few winter storms that passed through Albuquerque this year.

New Year 2014 Hike

Pecos Wilderness

January 1, 2014

We had to get out of our respective houses this day!  Neither Byron nor I are big college football fans so we threw out the prospective date of January 1 for a hiking/photo and or fishing day.  We did both, Byron fishing with his new fly fishing rod and I did the photography.

El Malpais part 3

December 28, 2013

La Ventana Arch

We went farther south from the Sandstone Bluff to see what else there is to see.  It was a cold and windy day with temperatures around freezing at 9AM and a strong wind making it even colder.