by btharp | Mar 29, 2017 | creative ideas, nature photography, photography, road trip, Spring, wildflowers
What to do when the wind is blowing gusts and the flowers are dancing? Go with it!! The owl’s clover, poppies, goldfields, and grasses galore were being buffeted by winds in Antelope Valley on Monday, March 27th, so there was no hope of capturing and close-ups,...
by btharp | Mar 26, 2017 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, road trip, USA
After teaching in Saguaro National Park and Tanque Verde in Tuscon, last week, I headed back down to Organ Pipe Nat’l Monument, as I figured the brittlebush would be in full bloom, and I was not disappointed! Clouds of yellow dotted the hillsides amidst the...
by btharp | Nov 2, 2016 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, general photography, photo tips, road trip, USA
So here I was, driving through the Willamette valley in September, on my eventual way home, looking for an apple stand, when I saw this huge dust cloud from a distance. I could see the tractor at one point, and I decided I had to get there somehow to photograph this...
by btharp | Oct 5, 2016 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, road trip, USA
Hi, all! I just returned from a quick road trip to the Northwest, to teach at Pacific Northwest Arts School, and took a week to drive back. The trip was fraught with ‘photo-misses’. I arrived at Mt. Rainier to do night sky photography reflecting in a...
by btharp | Jun 3, 2016 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, road trip
Mid-April provided some very interesting light and clouds in central Utah this year. I had been to speak at the Moab Photography Symposium, and had to drive to Salt Lake to leave my car and fly to northeast Ohio to teach a workshop before rejoining my car and...
by btharp | Apr 4, 2016 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, road trip
I’m still working through my pictures from my road trip. In a recent post I talked about the very windy days I had, and posted a multiple exposure as that was one way to deal with the wind. Another issue I was dealing with was heat waves, and while it...