by btharp | Nov 16, 2016 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Italy, Landscape Photography, photography, travel photography
Late June, I attended a tour to the Dolomites so that I could get to great spots for sunrise and sunset without having to do all the research, as I was crunched for time working on my new book. I hadn’t take someone else’s tour in a long time, and it was...
by btharp | Nov 15, 2016 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, photography, USA, workshops & photo tours
Howdy Folks, Don’t miss this incredible learning opportunity and the fun of attending a workshop with me and MISA (Madeline Island School of Arts) during their Southwest program in Tuscon. The Tanque Verde Ranch is a special place; Conde Nast Traveler just rated...
by btharp | Oct 18, 2016 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, photography, workshops & photo tours
This is my tribute to Eliot Porter and a host of other landscape photographers that inspired me when I was learning photography. I was so drawn to the beauty of hardwood forests, (deciduous forests). In Slovenia right now, we are at close to peak, and rains have...
by btharp | Oct 12, 2016 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, photography, Street Photography
Just because we can doesn’t mean we should convert our color images to black and white. Not every picture works as a straight conversiosn, that’s for sure. With my ages-old training and development as a photographer being in black-and-white, I learned to...
by btharp | May 20, 2016 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, photography, USA
I just recently returned from a road trip to Utah with Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio thrown into the middle of the Utah trip. What a contrast that was, visually! From desert to valleys with marshes, woods with wildflowers, and rain. But it was a great workshop...
by btharp | Mar 7, 2016 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, photography, USA
The Tohona O’ogham people of southwestern Arizona believe that the saguaro cactus represent their relatives, because when you die you go back to the earth and the cactus spring up from the earth. As I drive through these forests of giant cactus, I can see the...