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Print of the Month: Distant Mountains
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While on vacation in British Columbia, this was the view from the beach at my sister's house before sunrise. I love the way the distant mountains lack any detail and the layers of mountains each have their own tones. As always, I give a 20% discount to anyone purchasing my Picture of the Month. After the month is over, the price goes up. You can purchase the print on LorenPhotos.com.
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| | British Columbia adventure
I just returned from a great week on Cortes Island along the Pacific coast in British Columbia. My sister has a house there and it was a week of tremendous sunrises and sunsets, whales spouting, island beauty and best of all, time with my sister. Check out several blog posts from the week plus the gallery of photos.
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| | Art show season winding down
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The summer art show season is drawing to a close, I only have four more to go. It has been a fun summer going to places like Montauk and Amagansett on Long Island, Narragansett, RI, Mystic and Westport, CT and Bennington and Rutland, VT. This weekend I'm doing a show at Washington Square in New York City's Greenwich Village, which will be a logistical challenge. Then next weekend I'm at my Woodstock, VT home and the following week in Chatham, NJ. I wrap it up for the year Sept. 27-28 in New Hope, PA., so stop by if you in those areas. You can always see where I will be on my website, www.LorenPhotos.com. |
| | Fall foliage workshop added
The response to my Vermont fall foliage photo workshop has been so great that I have decided to add another one on Oct. 9 to 12. It is basically the same as the first workshop, we will go to special places I have found while traveling the back roads of Vermont throughout the years. We probably won't go to the same locations as the first workshop since the leaves change so fast that we might not have peek conditions both weekends, but I know plenty of great places to shoot. I still have openings but sign up soon because it is filling fast. Read More
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Proper use of a telephoto
I hear a lot of people saying that an iPhone will make pictures as good as my expensive DSLR camera. That's true if the iPhone is the only camera you have with you, but the difference is the ability to use wide angle or telephoto lenses. A telephoto is not used just so you don't have to be as close to your subject. Yes, when I was in British Columbia I needed my telephoto to shoot a breaching humpback whale, but one great creative use is to pull the background closer to the foreground and to give an image a flatter look. I often use a telephoto when I want to make the background look closer to the foreground, like in this shot of a birch tree against colorful maples. If I would have gotten closer to the birch and used a wide angle lens, the birch would have looked farther away form the maples and not had the colorful impact. |
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