Recent Posts
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A Southwest Loop
Terrie and I have been on the road for a week, now half way through a loop through the Southwest. We found a 50 acre patch of truly weird hoodoos in the midst of a mining and drilling operation in eastern Utah and then criss-crossed the San Juan Basin of New Mexico to see Chaco [...]
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Mamiya Annouces the Credo Digital Backs
Mamiya Leaf announced a new line of digital backs of 40, 60, and 80 megapixels. Given that they are a division of Phase One and the specs are identical, they are distinguished principally by a different feature set from the Phase One offerings. Dubbed Credo, which translates to “I believe” from the Latin, they [...]
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Iceland’s Interior: Landmannalauger
Iceland’s interior While most tourists concentrate on the southern portion of the Ring Road, the interior landscape is the most dramatic. This is the land where Super jeeps rumble across swiftly moving glacier streams, over volcanic rubble and even onto the glaciers themselves. An ordinary four-wheel-drive vehicle can make it to Landmannalauger, perhaps the most [...]
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Iceland’s Ice and a Photo Tour
Canon Explorer of Light Jennifer Wu and I are leading a photo tour of Iceland from August 19 to August 29, 2012. I’ll post some text and galleries about Iceland over the next couple weeks, starting with Ice itself. Ice covers only a small fraction of Iceland, but the ice fields that exist are the [...]
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Death Valley Workshop with Jennifer Wu
Canon Explorer of Light Jennifer Wu and I just wrapped up our Death Valley Workshop. We shot the dunes and salt pans, the high escarpment of Telegraph Peak rising more than two vertical miles over Badwater, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, and the night sky. We devoted most evenings to star photography, sharing [...]
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Outdoor Photographer Article on Kumbh Mela in India
The March issue of Outdoor Photographer contains my article on Kumbh Mela, the largest religious festival in the world held along the Ganges every three years. The shooting can be taxing but the rewards are great. I intend to put together a trip for a small group for the next Kumbh, which will be held [...]
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Favorite Images from 2011
Jim Goldstein suggested that his readers create galleries of their 5-10 favorite images from the last year. Since I spent most of my shooting time in SE Asia, with brief forays to Iceland, Ouray, and the American SW, I concentrated my selection on that area.
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Sony XQD Memory Cards: The New Standard?
Sony announced the first XQD memory cards, starting with a 32 gig card capable of 125mg/sec read and write speeds through a PCIe connection. This will allow a DSLR to shoot 100 frames without interruption, which implies that the long-predicted convergence of stills and video is upon us. For those of us who shoot [...]
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Sony NEX vs Leica M9
Luminous Landscape ran several posts on the new, flood-delayed Sony NEX 7 recently. The most interesting for me was a comparison of the 7 vs a Leica M9 using Leica lenses on each body. Unlike the M9, the 7 doesn’t have a full frame sensor. However, even with an APS-C sensor, the same size as [...]
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Sao Praphet Song: The Second Kind of Woman
I had some time in Bangkok to work on my book on Thai transsexuals. I encountered Dia, an outgoing bar girl and occasional model who agreed to let me shoot her near her home. I wanted to get some shots of her without makeup or any preparation, but she insisted on a tight dress [...]