These are my blog posts on Nature Photography. From England, Iceland and the United States all the way down to Easter Island in the South Pacific.
With Nature Photography I often find myself alone, in remote areas, witnessing things that most don’t get to see. I strive to capture the moment that unmistakably expresses the emotions I felt in that fleeting instant of time and space. Just for a minute, I want people to be removed from their daily lives through my photographs, and connect with me as I share the beauty of our stunning planet as we continue our journey around the sun and, in turn our galaxy and then on through the cosmos.
Blood Moon January 2019
Photo of the Blood Moon with some stars. Taken one cold evening on January 20th 2019 from Kenneth Hahn State Park in Los Angeles. Canon 5dmkIII | 70-200mm f2.8L. During a total lunar eclipse, Earth completely blocks direct sunlight from reaching the Moon. The only light reflected from the lunar surface has been refracted by Earth’s atmosphere. This light appears reddish for the same reason that a sunset or sunrise does: the Rayleigh scattering of bluer light. Due to this reddish color, a totally eclipsed Moon is sometimes called a blood moon. Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth. A total lunar eclipse can last up to nearly 2 hours, while a total solar eclipse lasts only up to a few minutes at any given place, due to the smaller size of the Moon’s shadow. Also unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions, as they are dimmer than the full Moon. The reddish coloration arises because sunlight reaching the Moon must pass through a long and dense layer of Earth’s atmosphere, where it is scattered. Shorter wavelengths are more likely to be scattered by the air molecules and small particles; thus, the longer wavelengths predominate by the time the light rays have penetrated the atmosphere. Human vision perceives this resulting light as red. This is the same effect that causes sunsets and sunrises to turn the sky a reddish color. An alternative way of conceiving this scenario is to realize that, as viewed from the Moon, the Sun would appear to be setting (or rising) behind Earth.
Jökulsárlón Glacier Lake
Jökulsárlón Glacier Lake - Iceland, October 18th 2017 Taken from my facebook post which can be found here - http://bit.ly/2DKnjYc I was treated to some brief moments of color in the…
Sólheimasandur Plane crash
The Sólheimasandur plane Crash - US Navy DC-3, Sólheimasandur, Iceland - October 19th 2017. The aircraft is a crashed US Navy Douglas C-117D located in Sólheimasandur on the southern coast…
Easter Island Part 4
My fourth full day on Easter Island and things took a slight turn for the worse with the weather, after a disappointing sunrise at Ahu Tongariki I headed back over to…
Easter Island Part 3
My third day on Easter Island I packed my gear and headed out before dawn for Ahu Tongariki to catch the sunrise, when I got there the sky was just starting…
Easter Island Part 2
My second day on Easter island I headed up and around the Rano Kau volcano to visit the clifftop village of Orongo, the site of the Birdman Ritual on the Southwestern edge…
Easter Island
Earlier this year I visited the worlds most remote inhabited island located in the South Pacific ocean called Rapa Nui, or, as it is more commonly known Easter Island. Here are some of my thoughts and experiences whilst on my 7 day trip out there.
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