by btharp | Apr 12, 2017 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Conservation, Insights, Landscape Photography
National Park Week is almost here! It’s the week of April 15-23, and the National Park Foundation and National Park service are partnering to offer free admission to hundreds of national parks (and monuments) across the USA on April 15-16th, so plan to get out...
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 | Mar 2, 2017 | Black-and-White, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography
The final edits for my new book, “Expressive Nature Photography” are finished, and this ‘baby’ didn’t make it! Hard to accept, as we all love our children, right?! But you just can’t fit all your ‘babies’ into one book,...
by btharp | Feb 6, 2017 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Insights, nature photography, photography, Yosemite
Bare trees dapple the golden light falling on Bridalveil Creek in Yosemite Valley. The past several months I’ve been finalizing text and selecting images to illustrate my upcoming book Expressive Nature Photography. I first selected about 600 images – way...
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...