by btharp | Oct 4, 2017 | The Blog, travel photography
It is very easy to see the luxury villas and hotels stepping up and down the steep hillsides here, like snow blanketing the brown landscape, but I came to Santorini to find a different type of photograph. The architecture provides such an incredible opportunity to...
by btharp | Dec 10, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, nature photography, Photo Blog, photography, The Blog, wildlife photography, workshops & photo tours
“Mom? What are those things on two feet back there? They have HUGE glassy eyes pointed at me. There are at least 8 eyes. I’m not sure about this, can I hide behind you?” OK, so we’re not supposed to anthropomorphize with wildlife, right?...
by btharp | Nov 26, 2014 | photography, Plug-ins, Processing Techniques, Special Effects, The Blog
It’s Time to give THANKS to all these companies creating such great processing software for our images! These folks have worked hard to create a series of quality plug-ins for everything from essential processing to creative processing effects for your images....
by btharp | Nov 26, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, Namibia, nature photography, Photo Blog, photography, The Blog, workshops & photo tours
So here I was in this incredible Quiver Tree Forest* in Namibia, amazed by the bizarre shapes, colors and the textures I was seeing. As the light lowered in the sky, getting warmer, the trees glowed. Yet it was my second afternoon there, and I was looking for...
by btharp | Nov 23, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography, Photo Blog, road trip, The Blog, workshops & photo tours
When I hear the words ‘storm’s a-brewin’ I get excited, because that means the potential for dramatic light and CLOUDS! I love love love clouds. They make those blank shapes of sky work within your landscape images so much more effectively. Not...
by btharp | Nov 22, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, general photography, Landscape Photography, nature photography, Photo Blog, The Blog
It is always hard, and increasingly so with climate change, to predict peak Fall color anywhere. Yet the week we scheduled and ran our instructional tour to Zion was supposed to be peak, and there must have been at least 8 other workshop or tour group leaders all...