50% OFF NOVEMBER SALE

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I am offering a special 50% OFF discount on all Canvas Wrapped Prints and Fine Art Prints.

Simply visit the Gallery Page (here) scroll through the images, find your favorite(s) click the image to see the sizes and options available and go to check out. Then enter the coupon code: NOVEMBER and you’ll receive 50% your entire order!!!!

SALE ENDS NOVEMBER 24th AT MIDNIGHT!
Winchester Lookout 3

We have recently expanded the options for Canvas Wrapped Prints.

New Product: Premium Canvas Wrap –

Try our newest canvas product! This 1.25 inch thick wrapped canvas is warp resistant.

  • Patented Lightweight Construction
  • Museum-Quality Canvas
  • Black Matboard Backing
  • Hanging Hardware

This new Premium Wrap product is available UP TO the 24″ x 36″ size.

Premium Wrap

Premium Wrap

Premium Wrap - Backing

Premium Wrap – Backing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Size: Prints and wraps (But not Premium Wraps)are now available in the 40″ x 60″ size!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baker River Trail – Fall Colors

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The Baker River Trail is at its best in the fall. The cool, clean, crisp air refresh your mind while the bright colors enliven the soul.

The trail is easy to get to, just follow the Baker Lake Road north from Highway 20 to its end (You need a NW Forest Pass to park). The trail starts right there and meanders along the west side of the river. The leaves on the ground create a magic carpet for your feet.

You’ll pass some huge grand trees, actually not just trees but patriarchs of the forest, old wise creatures standing guard over the River.

After only a quarter mile there is a suspension bridge spanning the azure waters. Go out on the span for wonderful views downstream as the river bends and the late afternoon light illuminates the colors on the east bank.

Continuing along your path the trail approaches the river at several points where you can easily scramble down 5 or 6 feet of embankment out on to gravel bars affording magnificent views of the wild river. Fall brings salmon to spawn and you can see their bright red bodies darting and splashing.

But don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself!

If you’d like to go on a Guided Fall Photo Tour, here are all the details!

Stars, Tent and Kids

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Here is another shot from the other night along the Baker River.

Camped under the Milky Way 3

Camped under the Milky Way 3

I had in my mind several images, planning and scheming as we hiked in, having the kids in the tent illuminated with the I-Pad, having them look out of the tent, in awe at the stars.

Here is the i-pad shot. Not too bad! A little overexposed on the face of the kid (Dawson) holding the device.

Then I tried an image with them looking out of the tent. I used the red light function on my head lamp to illuminate their faces and this is what I got:

IMG_8179At first I didn’t even try to edit it, it looked so red.

But later I decided to give it a try. I edited (in photoshop, as a raw file) the foreground, then went back and edited the raw a second time, but edited just the sky.

Then I merged the two and did final editing.

That’s Joe on the left, wrapped in the sleeping bag. And my son, Max is the incredulous one on the right!

Not too bad!

I guess I’ll have to take the kids camping more often!

Looking at the stars

Looking at the stars

Isolation Lake, Enchantments Alpine Lakes Wilderness

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Isolation Lake is the first or last lake you visit on your trip into the Enchantment Basin, depending upon which direction you are hiking the loop.

Campers along Isolation's shore

Campers along Isolation’s shore

If you managed to hike up Aasgard Pass (more than 2,000 ft. elevation gain in less that a mile) than its your first.

Camped at Isolation Lake, Enchantments, Alpine Lakes Wilderness

Camped at Isolation Lake, Enchantments, Alpine Lakes Wilderness

Isolation Lake Panorama

Isolation Lake Panorama

If took the long route past Snowy Lake, then Isolation will be your last lake in the high country before heading down and out.
But either way, its a fantastic place.

Isolation Lake

Isolation Lake

High above timber line it is a world of rocks and ice.

Isolation Lake, Enchantments

Isolation Lake, Enchantments

Blue, gray and white are the colors here.
The air is crisp, sharp, clean.
A meadow is nearby with a small copse of larch hiding the toilet.

Isolation Lake

Isolation Lake

Sunset brings new colors, reds and orange, magenta and violet.

Isolation Lake

Isolation Lake

 

Later the stars appear.

Prints are available here!

Camped at Isolation

Camped at Isolation

Dome in a moon scape

Dome in a moon scape

Isolation is a world of wonder.

North Cascades Book

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I just got word that these three images will be included in a new book about the North Cascades, due out in the Fall of 2014.
More details coming soon!

Camping-under-the-stars-NCNP Camping under the stars

Mt-Baker-and-Coleman-Glacier Mount Baker and Coleman Glacier

Sahale-Hiker-NCNP Hikers on Sahale Arm

Sunset Photo Shoot

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Trapped in my chair-bound servitude of financial slavery for the day, I venture out doors in the late afternoon and see the sky. My heart misses a few beats, its wondrous…the clouds are huge and full of detail. I pause a moment and looking west see that there are more on the horizon, headed my way.

Moments of missed opportunities from the past flood in, spurring me into movement.

I hurry home to fulfill my duties and, grabbing the camera, head out the door.

The big question is always: where to go to? My usual go-to spot is old now, overused. I yearn for a fresh new location with a wide vantage of the big, glorious sky, great foreground, no wires or roads…

I see that the sky is becoming a riot of beauty as I nervously debate which way to drive. Chiding myself for my lack or foresight in scouting some new vantage points, I robotically start driving towards my regular spot out on Highway 9…suddenly I swerve off course deciding to risk the sumptuous skies above on a gamble.

Recklessly making my way across town, I head down the final stretch of road, surveying the sky and weighing my choices. Things are looking better and better…

After what seems like an eternity I finally arrive, jump out of the car, grab my camera and tripod and set off across the green field.

Yes!
Field of Andy's Dream
Field of Andy’s Dream

My doubts and anxieties vanish with a poof as I survey the scene: deep green grass, fantastical sky, a nearby hill covered with fall colored trees and the mountains up the valley.
Sunset Oct. 16
Looking up the valley

My euphoria is tempered by the need to do my best to capture some small part of the majesty before me…

I move off, setting up the tripod, composing and shooting, changing the exposure, adjusting the polarizer, laying on the ground, jogging across the field for a closer vantage of the nearby hill.

Bright orange and electric blue: the combination starts my neuro-synapses firing frantically…
Sunset Oct. 16th Cook Road
Orange and Blue…

There is a farmhouse and barn on the horizon, adding some scale to the shots, the colors don’t look in the least bit real. The sky envelops me…wow!

Sunsets in particular necessitate speed. the light is changing so fast that minutes seem like days…I dart here and there across the fields looking around I see that the western sky is also alive with bright color but I need a few more shots to the east, trying to get the perfect shot of the trees, grass and mountains…
Majestic Sky
Majestic Sky

As I near photographic over-saturation (or maybe color over stimulation?) the skies begin to darken. I welcome the break, smiling now, I stand still and just admire the valley.
Skagit County Sunset Oct. 16th, 2012
Skagit County Sunset Oct. 16th, 2012