Once I get back from a trip and do an initial edit through my images I usually think my images are awful… It’s generally my third or fourth time through a folder when I can pick out with greater objectivity the images I personally really like. Here a couple from this March…
Argentina
New Zealand
Tricos are now pretty much on each morning at Silver Creek...
Male Trico
A recent winter day on Silver Creek not far from the Picabo Bridge.
Silver Creek, Idaho
Excited to have a black and white portrait of John Huber in the new summer issue of The FlyFish Journal (issue 7.4).
Silver Creek, Idaho
A fall release.
Release. Fall. Silver Creek, Idaho.
Below is a quote from the author David James Duncan in the documentary film, Damnation. He is talking about hatchery steelhead and salmon versus wild:
“The wild fish are genetically diverse whereas a hatchery clone is a bunch of first cousins fucking first cousins you know. So you end up with a bunch of badeeps. They are immediately being inbred out of existence. It really is like trying to replace, Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart with Yanni, Yanni and Yanni. No diversity.”
Rainbow. Early Fall. Idaho.
Rainbow Trout. Early Fall. Idaho.
Early Spring. Lower Big Lost River, Idaho.
Bent Rod & Lower Big Lost River, Idaho.
Rod & Line. Big Wood River, Idaho. Winter.
A Memory
Nikon D3s & Nikon 50mm ƒ1.2 ais lens
A terrific photographer & photography teacher who I admire, Chris Orwig, discusses, "embracing the flaws." That concept was likely brought to the surface for him when he was talking with the musician Seal about photography. Seal mentioned to Chris that, "When I shoot digitally I look for the flaws and when I shoot film I embrace the flaws." While I do not shoot film at the moment, the idea of "embracing the flaws" has not left me. Perhaps it's those imperfections that can, in the long run, make an image resonate.
John Huber making a January cast. Silver Creek, Idaho.
A lens I frequently use for fly fishing photography--the Nikon ƒ2.8 14-24--is a flare machine. The two arcs on the left side of the above image appear in many images of mine when shooting into the sun with my 14-24 lens. Why not just embrace the marks the flare makes?
