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For the past 24 hours, American Airlines have done their best to make my life a living hell. I was telling this story to a nice man named Robert at the Grand Junction Dollar Rental Car counter and his jaw dropped. He told me that he had been in the travel business all his life and never heard anything quite like this. It’s not…
This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on developing your creative vision. You can find Part 1 of this series by clicking here. My path to becoming a full-time landscape photographer has been long a varied. If you read PART 1 of this series, then you know I started photographing landscapes back in my teenage years. You’ll also come away with an understanding…
NOTE: This is the first of a three-part series on the art of seeing creatively. We are all creative to one degree or another, but our vision can be developed similar to our craft skills. I don’t buy into the assumption that “you were born that way.” Like anything else in life, some people have an easier time than others in anything we do…
Yesterday was quite rewarding for me in more ways than one. A friend of mine, Sara Singleton, had notified me that the Garapatta Rocky Ridge Loop Trail was open and the wildflowers were amazing! I immediately called my friend/colleague Mike Hall and asked if he was up for a tough hike. The summit of Rocky Ridge is 1850 feet above the Pacific Ocean. Most…
Join me, along with Scott Schilling and Pierre Steenberg for my 3rd Annual Fall in Grand Teton National Park Workshop this September 28 – October 2, 2014. Come photograph one of America’s grandest National Parks in one spectacular fall workshop. The aspens and cottonwoods will be at or near peak color with the dramatic sweep of the Grand Teton Range and the iconic Snake…
It has been a 18-month journey from concept to reality, but my new website is finally live! If you’d like to check it out, then click here: Don Smith Photography But hopefully, you’ll be back to read all about it how it came to be! Let’s rewind a couple summers back. I had returned from a trip to Europe with my family after having…
Let’s face it, we all have our comfort zones in every aspect of our lives. I’m enjoying one right now. I like waking early, grinding my Starbucks coffee, and writing a blog (I promise, this one will be a lot less contentious than the one of fracking). I had always wanted to visit Cape Perpetua, Oregon (approximately 160 miles south of Portland) to photograph…
California’s upcoming November election could hold extra importance for my family, friends and neighbors. We will be voting on more than school bonds and local political seats. We could be making history. My fellow citizens and I will be the first in the state to vote for or against hydraulic fracturing in our county. If approved, this measure would prohibit fracking, and related gas…
If you have been following my posts for any length of time, then you know how important moon images are to me. They are so important in fact, that I plan many of my workshops around the full moon. I captured this image Wednesday evening from Yosemite’s Glacier Point looking east over the Ansel Adams Wilderness just after sunset. I was co-teaching Gary Hart’s…
Have you ever wondered how your mood affects your interpretation of a scene you are trying to capture? Let’s take that a step further; how about a capture that you are trying to process? It’s my opinion that mood plays a large role on how we interpret the natural world and how we choose to portray what we captured – assuming you are not…
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