p.1 #7 · What October Looks Like — A Sierra Collection (larger files added)
morris wrote:
Hi Dan,
Good to connect again. This is a stunning set, I wish I could see it larger.
Morris
Thanks.
I thought it would be interested to share the small images as a sort of themed set, drawing attention to the "what fall looks like" commonalities. It might be too much to post them all here separately!
Dan
(They do appear, or at least will over the the month of October, on my social media accounts and at my website.)
p.1 #9 · What October Looks Like — A Sierra Collection (larger files added)
As much as I like sunrise and sunset colorful and moody lighting, these are the types of images that are more likely to be found as wall hangers. I like them all.
p.1 #13 · What October Looks Like — A Sierra Collection (larger files added)
pbraymond wrote:
Great set. Makes me want to see them larger. Perhaps a link to larger images on your website?
My idea here was specifically to call attention to the overall fall-like quality and colors rather than to any one individual photograph.
However, since you asked, here some in larger versions — I'll split them across two posts. (It might not be appropriate to share links to all of the website posts here in the FM landscape forum. That said, they do appear there, along with many others, and the website isn't too hard to locate.)
p.1 #17 · What October Looks Like — A Sierra Collection (larger files added)
Dan,
Lovely stuff... I absolutely am gobsmacked by your thoughtful eye for composition. It appears that many of these were shot with longer than "typical" lenses seen in this forum for landscape work. Care to comment on your approach?
p.1 #18 · What October Looks Like — A Sierra Collection (larger files added)
Rand47 wrote:
Dan,
Lovely stuff... I absolutely am gobsmacked by your thoughtful eye for composition. It appears that many of these were shot with longer than "typical" lenses seen in this forum for landscape work. Care to comment on your approach?
Rand
I'll comment before Dan replies: my two favorite lenses for landscapes are a 24-70 and a 70-400, both at the more tele focal lengths. I love the way that telephotos compress the depth of the landscapes, making them feel more upfront and intimate. The goodies aren't lost as much in the distance. They really bring close the stacking of atmospheric effects, like the layers of topography and vegetation when there is backlit haze.
To me, going wider and wider for landscapes loses too much of the distant detail and the richness of the view.
p.1 #19 · What October Looks Like — A Sierra Collection (larger files added)
Dan, your beautiful images bring back the surge of long ago feelings that I got the first time I saw the images by Ansel Adams and the other early masters working in the Sierras. I was living in Oregon way back then, and spent every spare moment backpacking in the mountains of Oregon and California. Fall was always my favorite time with its colors and crunch of crisp, fallen leaves at lower elevations, then hiking up the elevation gradient until we reached the spring-like conditions where flowers still bloomed in meadows at the edges of the melting snow-pack.
Seeing the old masters' images way back then awed me with the discovery of what could be done with cameras and film. Dan, your images rekindle that. Thanks for sharing these.
p.1 #20 · What October Looks Like — A Sierra Collection (larger files added)
^^^
Well, thank you so much jdc562!
I was also inspired by Ansel many years ago, along with a few other of those masters, mainly through books that my father had and then books that I purchases on my own later. (Having a job in a bookstore for a while helped!)
I've been fortunate to become friends with folks from Ansel's circle, to photograph with some of them, and to be influenced by their way of seeing as well. I don't try "to be Ansel," but there is no question that his work is among the factors that have affected me. (Folks might be surprised at some of the others — including some distinctly non-Ansel photographers and even some painters.)
