The Journey Into Art (Technique)

Here is the process that went into the final image and print for Mono Lake grasses 7.

Image 1 & 2 from the camera

Combined image from 1 & 2

After initial color and contrast work

After further transformation

After final color processing and resziing

Many have asked from what images did my current work start. Since I have ventured farther and farther from the beaten path of traditional landscape photography, I have resurrected the Before and After series to show what I am doing with my work...

One windy June afternoon I was wandering along a boardwalk over a delicate grassland near the shore of Mono Lake. Laid down in the field was last year's grasses and up through them came this year's green stalks...

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something...

The true wilderness experience is one, not of escaping but of finding one’s self by seeking the wilderness.

- Howard Zahniser

A playa is a dried-up lake bed within a desert basin...

(This is the full text accepted for publication on petapixel.com and photopxl.com.)

I am a technical professional who wanted to become an artist in his middle years...

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around...

How does one start on an artistic journey in landscape photography? I knew from the first time I invested in my first “good” digital camera; I would eventually want to express something unique in my work...