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Dune Study

Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia. May 2009

Sony A900, 24-70mm @40mm, 1/10 sec @ f/11, ISO 100

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Here is a quick image of John Paul having a few laughs on the dunes here in Namibia. Coming up with funny poses for a silhouette isn't always easy, as you need to have a shape that is easily identifiable from afar. This is why the camera is separate from his face.

Taken with a Sony A900 digital SLR and a Sony Zeiss 24-70mm lens.

Quad ATV's at Serra Cafema

Just a quick grab shot from along the Namibia / Angola border. We spent an afternoon on quad bikes on the dunes, searching out interesting scenes to photograph. The ATV's allowed us to be nimble and quickly find vantage points to shoot from. There is nothing like sliding down a 35 degree face of a dune. Truly spectacular.

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Lioness in a Tree

Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. January 2009

Nikon D3x, 200-400mm f/4 VR @370mm, 1/200 sec @ f/8. ISO 250

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Saguaro and Galiuros Range, Arizona. April 2009

Nikon D3x, 24-70mm f/2.8, 1/20 sec @ f/8, ISO 100

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Saguaro, Mount Lemmon, Arizona. April 2009

Alpa TC, Phase One P45+ digital back, Rodenstock APO Sironar HR 180mm

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Texas Bluebonnets in the Hill Country, outside of Willow City. April 2004

Canon 10D, 16-35mm, .8sec @ f/16, ISO 100

Spring is just about here, and I thought I would pull an image from my archive from 5 years ago. When we used to live in Austin, we would head out every weekend in the springtime, looking for wildflower pockets within a 100 mile radius of our home. 2004 was an exceptional year for wildflowers in Texas, and it is looking like 2009 will be good but only in certain areas. I am looking forward to getting out in the next few weeks to take some photos of the kids in the flowers. If you have never been to Texas in the springtime for wildflowers, you owe it to yourself to come bring your camera for a few days. Make Austin your home base, and make sure to eat some great BBQ (it is beef here in Texas) and take in some excellent live music.

Namibia aerial photographs

Here are some images that I finally got around to processing this morning. Let's see, I was last in Namibia in September, which was 6 months ago. Crazy that I really haven't done much processing of my images since then, as Gura Gear has taken a ton of my time as of late. All of the following images were taken from a Cessna Caravan above the Namib desert, Namibia. All images are with the Canon 1DsMkIII body with a 24-105mm f/4 L IS lens. Processed and toned all inside of Lightroom.

I am a huge fan of images with a deep black, as I think this helps create a sense of drama. Maybe it is because Ansel Adams was a great practitoner of the entire tonal range, I don't know, but his work has influenced how I approach black and white landscape photography. I have put together an entire portfolio of black and white sand dunes in Namibia, and may offer these images in a portfolio box that is similar to the other two that I announced a few weeks ago.