The image below was taken near the Silver Creek Preserve, Idaho.
Winter Storm & Trees.
Italian Mediterranean
The image below was taken in Viareggio, Italy.
Flotsam & Horizon.
Tuscan Landscape
It was quite wet the week I was in Tuscany which made for a saturated and moody environment. Most of these landscapes were shot wide open--ƒ1.2 on the 50mm lens I used.
Storm & Tuscany. Near Lucca, Italy.
Moody winter weather near Lucca, Italy.
Dirt road & trees. Tuscany.
Windy road near Gombitelli, Italy.
Breaking storm. Torre, Italy.
Minimal Landscapes
It was super foggy from Bellevue, Idaho all the way down to Picabo today. Below are a few images from today.
Camera: Nikon D3s
Lens: Nikon 35mm ƒ2
Ordinary Landscape
Here's another image that is part of my series called, "Ordinary Landscapes."
Ordinary Landscapes
I have been working on a self project for the last couple of years I have titled, "Ordinary Landscapes." The image below never made it to this web site until now. It was taken in the middle of the summer with smoky skies. It was during a drought. I have mentioned this project here before and the aim is to capture something that is truly ordinary and perhaps even mundane and reveal it in an extraordinarily simple way. It needs to be compositionally simple as well.
Camera: Nikon D3s
Lens: Nikon 24mm pc-e
Silver Creek
Winter temps are finally here with a high today in Picabo, Idaho hovering around 10˚. The fishing is now closed for the season in the Nature Conservancy and RR sections. It is however open downstream of the HWY 20 bridge. The image below was taken today of Silver Creek.
Camera: Nikon D3s
Lens: Nikon 35mm ƒ2
Power Lines
Power Lines and Prairie. South Central Idaho.
Picabo, Idaho
Picabo & negative space. Late fall.
Center Pivot. Picabo, Idaho.
Here's a shot of a field and center pivot near Picabo, Idaho.
Idaho Spring Landscape
In the spring the clouds take on a different dimension. They carry thunder and the wind is warmer and the brittle and dessicated tall grasses from last summer rattle and farmers push on in their fields discing the soil for this year's crop and dust follows the tractor like a lonely smoke plume slowly dissolving in the palpable spring air and raptors perched on fence posts seem to have more energy and fly like well fed predators and farmers and ranch hands stop for a moment while having coffee with dirt stained hands and notice the green perennial alfalfa popping up and maybe there's a grin and an optimistic thought and then that fades to the inevitable thought of now.
Spring Hills & Night Casting
Spring had arrived early up until today. Much colder and wet for today and tomorrow. This weather will put new snow in the Stanley Basin and clear-up and lower the flow on the Salmon River.
Trail Creek Road
This is a pretty stark image I took a few days ago on Trail Creek Road not far from HWY 93. The sheer openness and the single set of tire tracks and the spring-like color in the sage caught my eye.
Roughly 12 miles south of the above Trail Creek Road image, I took the shot below as the storm was starting to break. It's a similar horizon below but it has a fence line and telephone poles and a lack of snow on the ground...
Silver Creek. March
The Sun Valley area received about 7 new inches of much needed snow yesterday and I drove to Mackay. Below is an image I took, on my way home, in the late afternoon as the storm was starting to break. It was around 4 pm and I don't know if I can say I have ever seen more fish rising on this section of Silver Creek other than during brown drakes in early June. It was midge madness. Unfortunately fishing is closed at the moment on Silver Creek.
Desert Center Pivot
I drove over to the Big Lost River and Mackay yesterday. Drove north of Mackay too. By the Mackay Reservoir where there were still ice fishing huts and up to the East Fork of The Lost where there was about 5 inches of new snow and it was snowing hard and the visibility was maybe 500 feet.
Ordinary Landscape Diptych
Here are two images taken of the same fire ring from almost the same spot using two different--albeit close--focal lengths. The color image portion of the diptych taken in the summer inspired me to start a project I call, Ordinary Landscapes. The location is Summit Creek, Idaho. The tracks going through the winter image are of coyotes.
Conifers, Fire Ring & Snow
Silver Creek Preserve Mid-Summer
Here are two images from last July that made it past my initial look. If you recall, it was smoky here last summer and on this particular night the smoke had mainly gone west and there was just a hint hanging in the atmosphere making the sky and clouds more palpable than normal and dust hung in the air like helium inflated dandelion seeds and there wasn't a lick of wind and a few fishermen made their way through the tall grass to a bend on the creek.
Ordinary Landscape
A personal project of mine has been working on what I have titled Ordinary Landscapes. So, just what is the criteria for an "Ordinary Landscape"? It's simple: It is taking something mundane or common or better yet, ordinary, and transforming that lack of distinctiveness into something simply extraordinary. As it is, many of my Ordinary Landscape images to date have been landscapes often with a subtle touch of the human element in and around where I live in Idaho, but really they can be of anything. Here are two recent Ordinary Landscapes:
Silver Creek, Idaho Landscape
I drove down to Silver Creek yesterday to take a look at a bunch of things including the water clarity and ice factor on Silver Creek near Picabo. The wind blew out of the east with high clouds. Temps were right around 32˚ and the dirt roads were still frozen enough so as not to become a muddy mess. The water clarity is good with some siltation. Ice is limited to the banks. The more off color it gets the better the streamer fishing seems to be. Too windy to notice any midges. Silver Creek downstream of HWY 20 stays open through February.