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Chromatic Scale by ErinBabnik
Posted: January 30, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, america, american, arizona, desert, IFTTT, purple, sandstone, South Coyote Buttes, southwest, twilight, usa, Vermillion Cliffs
People who know me well will understand how large my eyes became when I saw all of this purple sandstone at South Coyote Buttes. I love purple. For years now wearing purple has been something of a uniform for me when I’m out shooting. It all started because I was spending a lot of time in the Alps and wanted my outerwear to make me visible in the landscape in the event of an emergency. Primary colors are traditional in mountaineering wear for this reason, but I wanted something a little more feminine, and purple was the obvious choice. So I got into the purple habit, and it stuck.
Now, for better or for worse, it has reached the point where people tend to associate me with the color, often coming up with nicknames for me ranging from “The Purple Ninja” to “Her Purplitude”. I even have people recognizing me when they see me shooting simply because of the color I’m wearing. A particularly welcome occasion of the sort took place when I was shooting in the California redwoods, immersed in the dim light of the forest, when I heard someone call out my name. It was David Cobb, and he said that my purple jacket had caused him to recognize me. He then led me further down the trail where Sean Bagshaw was turning his magic towards a famous branch of rhododendron blooms. Thanks to the purple jacket, I had a lovely chat with those two and even made preliminary plans for meeting up with Sean in Slovenia later that summer. I love purple.
But I digress. I shot this scene during a trip with mavens of the southwest Paul Rojas and David Thompson. I also had the great pleasure of getting to shoot with Paul’s adorable wife Mich, who happens to do a lot of her shooting in a superb pair of purple pants.
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bicolor canyon by annab
Posted: January 29, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, america, american, arizona, colorado river, geology, Grand Canyon, IFTTT, landscape, layers, nature, north america, purple, red rocks, southwest park, square, sunny, yellow
Grand Canyon of the Colorado River,Arizona,USA.
The Deep End by ErinBabnik
Posted: January 28, 2015 in landscapesTags: 500px, america, american, desert, fin, formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante, GSENM, IFTTT, National Monument, remote, sandstone, southwest, sunrise, usa, utah, wilderness
There was a proud lad named Jim.
With a shark he decided to swim.
He patted its head before it was fed;
I wonder what happened to him?
With a shark he decided to swim.
He patted its head before it was fed;
I wonder what happened to him?
Since I have just jumped into the proverbial ‘deep end’ by going full-time with my photography, I am therefore more vulnerable than ever to whatever big, menacing, hungry things might be swimming in the big sea of life along with me. So it is hardly surprising that this sandstone formation resembling a giant shark fin would strike me as an apt metaphor for the situation that I had gotten myself into just weeks earlier. There I was in this surreal wilderness area with dozens of miles of dirt road between me and anything that might be called civilization. It occurred to me that I was, both in my career and in my present location, well beyond the confines of the safe zone, not unlike the ones typically marked by a line of buoys just off the shores of popular beaches. Swim past the buoys at your peril, they say. But I always asked the same question as Sir Galahad in the Castle Anthrax: “Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?”
Indeed, I was always one of those kids who wanted to swim beyond the beach buoys, just to see what was out there. Having transgressed that boundary, I would look back towards the shore and wonder what made one side more interesting to me than the other. I suppose it’s the thrill of discovery that has always made me want to press further; and even in my adult life, I continue to succumb to its siren song, luring me out to places and into situations that seem ripe with potential.
And so I have ended up with a portfolio largely populated by photos like this one, showing a location that few people will recognize and even fewer will ever visit. Received wisdom states that such an obscure location is not marketable, neither for print sales nor for image licensing. But…it is out there, and it is beautiful. Just like the idea of doing landscape photography for a living, it’s an option. It’s a really beautiful option.
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Acknowledgements:
Special thanks to David and Paul for first showing me this location. You guys are true explorers: rock on!
Thanks also to Susan for inviting me on a nearly month-long odyssey and giving me carte blanche to choose locations: that’ll teach you! 😀
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If you are attracted to locations on the west coast of the United States, please note that I am now offering private, one-on-one workshops. More info here.
If you are interested in traveling to the Dolomites, please note that I will be conducting a workshop with co-leader Enrico Fosatti during the second week of July. More info here.
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Male American Wigeon by audiolui
Posted: January 25, 2015 in animalsTags: 500px, american, american wigeon, brown, duck, eye to eye, flying, flying at me, flying straight, IFTTT, looking at me, male american wigeon, San Diego, san diego santee lake, santee lake, white, wigeon, wings open
Male American Wigeon flying at me
Male American Wigeon by audiolui
Posted: January 25, 2015 in animalsTags: 500px, american, american wigeon, brown, duck, eye to eye, flying, flying at me, flying straight, IFTTT, looking at me, male american wigeon, San Diego, san diego santee lake, santee lake, white, wigeon, wings open
Male American Wigeon flying at me
View from Sentinel Dome by CelsoDiniz
Posted: January 26, 2014 in UncategorizedTags: 500px, america, american, cliff, cliffs, dome, domes, exploration, fall, forest, forests, from, granite, green, hike, hiking, IFTTT, ledge, national, park, rock, rocks, Rocky, scenic, sentinel, states, the, travel, tree, trees, united, usa, view, views, water, waterfall, yosemite
A view from the Sentinel Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.
Main: Bacon, Guacamole & Chicken Burger ($18) by fourfoodfellas
Posted: January 22, 2014 in foodTags: 500px, american, asia, Bacon, beer, burger, chicken, chop house, food, guacamole, IFTTT, singapore, western
Main: Bacon, Guacamole & Chicken Burger ($18)
Untitled by alexsegre
Posted: January 1, 2014 in 500px, adult, adults, america, american, art, city, contemporary, galleries, gallery, ifttt, inside, interior, looking, manhattan, modern, moma, museum, museums, new, newyork, north, painting, paintings, people, person, travel, us, usa, visitor, visitors, yorkTags: 500px, adult, adults, america, american, art, city, contemporary, Flickr, galleries, gallery, IFTTT, inside, interior, looking, manhattan, modern, moma, museum, museums, new, newyork, north, painting, paintings, people, person, travel, us, usa, visitor, visitors, york
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, America, USA 500px.com/photo/56427892
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