national park
Death Valley, California, November 2020.
I have a video-diary from my last visit to Death Valley, watch here part I and part II. I also have an older (and slightly embarrasing now) video from my visit in 2017. I was still shooting film back then!
I've been to Death Valley National Park several times and I can't wait to visit it again. What a beautiful place.
A beautiful hike I got to do in the Pyrenees mountains, in Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park.
The Olympic National Park in Washington is not only a big park, but also a diverse one. From the beautiful rocky beaches to the stunning peaks, and the rainforests in between. It's a stunning place that deserves quite some time to explore. I didn't have nearly enough to do anything but scratch the surface of what this place has to offer, but I still managed to make a few images I like. This is the video of my time there.
This time from the West side of the park. What can I say? It's an incredibly stunning place.
The first stop of my "spring" 2021 road trip was Glacier National Park, in Montana. And I quote spring because what I've found so far (and not just in Glacier) is much colder and much wetter weather than I had anticipated -- not complaining, though, much better than heat!
So, I got to Glacier way too early in the season. Most roads were closed, and most trails were not accesible. Not that I was planning on doing a lot of hiking alone, grizzlies are not something I'd want to mess with.
I still got to see quite a bit of the park. In this video I show you footage from the East side of Glacier National Park, where I spent 3 days. And the images I made there, of course.
I hope you enjoy it.
As much as I like the cold winter, warmer weather means camping season, and I wanted to start early. We spent a few days camping in Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan, and even though it was colder than I was expecting (it even snowed!), the trip was a success. Rachel and I got to spend time together, relax, experience nature, see beautiful places, and I even had time for some photography.
With two trips coming up in the next few weeks, I wanted to break out of my comfortable daily routine and get out to make some images. I visit Lake Michigan and the Indiana Dunes, where I find much better conditions than I was expecting.
Today’s video is from Canyonlands National Park, in Utah. A landscape that is mostly about the colors: the red rocks, the green vegetation, the sunrises and sunsets… how do we photograph all of that in black and white?
As I explore the park, I share some tips and ideas to create good monochrome images in places where color is king.
Update: second part of this mini series is now available. I share a few more tips and ideas, this time from Arches National Park.
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to spend a couple nights in beautiful Death Valley National Park. I recorded a photography journal of sorts, and the result is these two videos. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them.
There’s never enough time at a location. That was definitely what happened to me in my recent visit to Rocky Mountain National Park. A beautiful and huge place, and only 2 days to enjoy it.
In this video, I share some tips on how to make the most of a photography trip, so we can go back home with as many good images as possible.
A year and a half later, I went back to the Picos de Europa National Park in Asturias, to finish a hike I couldn't complete last time I was there. The Ruta del Cares is one of my favorite hikes ever, through a beautiful gorge surrounded by stunning mountains.
The weather couldn't be any better, some rain and fog at the beginning, clear skies in the middle of it and more cloudiness as we were approaching the trailhead. As someone put it on the comments, I felt like a kid in a candy store.
I had an amazing time at Great Sand Dunes National Park. I had to drive quite a lot to get here, but it's one of those few locations on my list of "places I must go back". A breathtaking landscape.
I almost didn't make it to this location. I'm very glad I did, because I made some of my favorite images ever that morning in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
I love making these silent videos. Sometimes, there's nothing to say.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7ii, Sony 16-35mm f/4
Settings: 16mm, ISO 100, f/5.0, 1/80sec
Mt Rainier National Park is one of those places that you have to see in person to believe they are real.
The star of the park is, obviously, Mt Rainier. But every corner looks like a fairy tale.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, 28-70mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Settings: 28mm, ISO 400, 1/40sec, f/4.5 (handheld)
Rain -a lot of rain- welcomed us on the first day of our first visit to the North Cascades National Park. This was one of the many images I made in this beautiful place during 4 amazing days.
Breathtaking sunrises and sunsets, hikes to the top of the world, lakes straight out of a fairy tale and, of course, the stunning landscapes covered by thousands of golden larch trees.
Camera and Lens: Sony A7II, Sony 28-70 f/3.5-5.6 kit lens
Settings: ISO 640, 41mm, f/5.6, 1/60th
The first day we arrived, Yosemite welcomed us with a rainy and foggy day.
Our time in the park was very eventful: that same night, I woke up at 4am to get ready to shoot sunrise. I found ourselves in the middle of a snowstorm, with a foot of snow around us, and a flat (very flat) tire.
I still made it for sunrise, using the spare tire. We had to spend a day looking for a place to fix the flat, but as soon as the car was 100% again, we went back to Yosemite.
