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 19, 2016 | America, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, nature photography
I had gone to the overlook with the hopes of capturing a great sunset over the Goosenecks area, but storms had been building up all afternoon and the sky was very cloudy. Still, I thought that I might get dramatic storm light, if not a great sunset. It was so windy...
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 | May 28, 2016 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, USA
So often we hope for dramatic weather and skies, but sometimes, it’s simply a really nice day, and the scenery is so lovely, that it’s worth a photograph just for that. After all, the point of making photographs is not just to make a sale, or for our...
by btharp | Mar 6, 2016 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog
Did you know that billions of seeds lie in wait (for years) in the desert for enough rain to germinate and grow? And of those billions, not all will get that chance. Wind, bird/animal droppings all play a part in where seeds come to rest, and if they are lucky...