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New Blog Design

19Jul/10
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It has been a while since we posted on the blog, and as you can see, we have been quite busy :) Lots of new changes, brand new design and a new section from Lola exclusively for Weddings. We are excited about these new changes and although it adds a little more structure to our website, it will be easier for us to manage the content this way and we won’t annoy our visitors by posting non-photography related stuff that might not be of interest to them. If you are coming to our blog for photography tips, we will still keep posting them on the main page, so no changes there.

We have not fully finished migrating the site over, so there might be a few bugs here and there. I will be fixing those within the next couple of days. Please be patient with us during this process.

How do you like our new site design?

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Please let us know what you think of the new look, we truly value your feedback! Please leave your feedback in the comments section below.

P.S. We will soon be giving out a lens in a new giveaway!
P.P.S. As an added bonus, I’m posting a wallpaper from Canyonlands National Park for large widescreen monitors. Enjoy! :)

  1. Canyonlands National Park 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper

Canyonlands Wallpaper

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Puerto Rico and Sand Dunes

2Jun/10
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Two more wallpapers from Puerto Rico and Sand Dunes for those who want to download and use them as backgrounds. Both panoramic images were shot hand-held with the Nikon 24mm f/1.4G and stitched using the method described in my “Panoramic Photography Howto” article.

  1. Puerto Rico 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  2. Sand Dunes 1920×849 Widescreen Wallpaper

Puerto Rico Wallpaper

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Sunrise and Delicate Arch Wallpapers

1Apr/10
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Our readers kindly asked us to provide high resolution versions of Delicate Arch and Sunrise shots from my last trip to Utah, to be used as desktop wallpapers. Here are the two images in 2560×1600 resolution for widescreen monitors:

  1. Delicate Arch 2560×1600 Widescreen Wallpaper
  2. Sunrise 2560×1600 Widescreen Wallpaper
Sunrise Delicate Arch

 

Enjoy! :)

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Yellowstone Pools and Streams

7Feb/10
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I seriously cannot wait to go back to Yellowstone this year (hopefully it won’t blow up before then, like in the movie “2012″ :)). Jokes aside, Yellowstone is one of the most magical places on Earth and I truly fell in love with it. Here are some of my favorites pictures of pools and streams from the park in large resolution.

  1. Deep Pool 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  2. Hot Stream 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  3. Mammoth Hot Springs 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  4. Colorful Springs 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper

Deep Pool Hot Stream

Mammoth Hot Springs Colorful Springs

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Best of 2009 – Landscapes (Part 3)

31Jan/10
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This is part three of the “Best of 2009 Landscapes” series. A couple of things that I wanted to mention here:

  • The “Double Rainbow” image is a little soft, because it was still raining when I took the picture
  • Although the composition is pretty much absent, I still went ahead and decided to post the “Fall” photograph as one of the best of 2009, because it has a special value to me. I took the image with a very long lens after an unsuccessful attempt to chase a bird and fired about 8 horizontal shots hand-held. I was sure that those images would end up in being deleted, but after I came home, I tried to stitch them together for the heck of it and ended up having this picture :)

And here are the images:

  1. Aged Colors 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  2. Arches 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  3. Crystallized Leaf 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  4. Curved River 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  5. Double Rainbow 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  6. Fall 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  7. Frozen Dunes 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  8. Indian Writings 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  9. Mammoth Hot Springs 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  10. Water Explosion 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper

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Aged Colors Arches

Crystallized Leaf Curved River

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Best of 2009 – Landscapes (Part 2)

27Jan/10
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This is part two of the “Best of 2009 Landscapes” series. Although I’m not an expert on building panoramic shots by any means, I believe these ones came out all right from what I shot last year. One thing for sure – I need to get a good panoramic head, because I enjoyed the process of shooting, then stitching panoramas. The largest panorama I have done so far is composed of over 250 images and it was so darn big, that I had to downsize it to 25,000 pixels. Not sure if I want to do that again, since it took forever to stitch the damn thing, but I think up to fifteen vertical images on a panorama is quite workable :)

Oh by the way, all of the shots below with the exception of “Zabriskie Point” were shot hand-held.

  1. Dune Sunset 1920×948 Panoramic Wallpaper
  2. Zabriskie Point 1920×675 Panoramic Wallpaper
  3. Golden Dunes 1920×687 Panoramic Wallpaper
  4. Snow, Dunes and Water 1920×638 Panoramic Wallpaper
  5. Cloudy Day in Mountains 1920×773 Panoramic Wallpaper
Dune Sunset

Dune Sunset

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Best of 2009 – Landscapes (Part 1)

23Jan/10
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Looks like I will be posting the “Best of 2009″ pictures till the end of the year! Kidding :) In all seriousness though, it did take me a long time to go through all of the pictures, pick the ones I liked the most, then have Lola look at them and give her opinion, after which I would repeat the process multiple times until I got to a reasonable number of pictures.

This year has been a landscape year for me, since I do not have as many wildlife photos. Landscape photography is very different than wildlife photography in many ways (I will write an article about it within the next few days) and I’ve learned a great deal while taking pictures of landscapes. I have also learned quite a bit about panorama and HDR photography, which are not that hard to understand, but quite complex to master.

Anyway, I do not want to bore you with all of this – here are my picks for the best of 2009 in landscape category. This is also the “Part 1″, because I have many more landscape pictures to share :)

  1. Antelope Canyon 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  2. Badwater 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  3. Lone Tree 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  4. Maroon Bells 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  5. Reflection 1920×945 Panoramic Wallpaper
  6. Sand Dunes Rising 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  7. Sand Dunes 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  8. Sunset 1920×825 Panoramic Wallpaper
  9. Trees 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  10. Yosemite 1920×1131 Panoramic Wallpaper

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Antelope Canyon Badwater

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Best of 2009 – Animals

16Jan/10
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This is a part three to the “Best of 2009″ pictures for “Animals” category. To be honest, I haven’t done much wildlife photography this year, because I was busy photographing birds, landscapes and portraits. After seeing a small number of animal pics in my photo collection, I decided to try to capture more wildlife this year, if I can.

Unfortunately, one of the worst computer disasters hit me last year, when my hard drive died and I lost two very precious weeks of photographs. Those photographs were priceless – I captured a fox with 5 fox kits in their natural habitat: playing, cuddling with each other and chasing, capturing and eating mice. All of those photos were lost for good and I was only able to save a low-resolution version of a couple of pictures that I sent over email to a fox rescuer. Honestly, if there was a way to save those pics, I would have traded them over everything else I got in 2009…that’s how valuable they were for me. I resized those low-res images of foxes and I’m attaching them here. Although they are not as good when it comes to quality, I still love them.

  1. Red Fox 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  2. Red Fox Kit 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  3. Mountain Pika 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  4. Mountain Pika Voice 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  5. Male Buffalo 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  6. Female Buffalo 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  7. Island Fox 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  8. Coyote 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  9. Dolphin Jump 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  10. Channel Islands Side-Blotched Lizard 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper

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Red Fox Red Fox Kit

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Best of 2009 – Birds

14Jan/10
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I had a hard time picking my favorites and I’m sure I didn’t do a good job, but anyway – here are the non-raptor bird pics that I liked from 2009:

  1. Tricolored Heron 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  2. Mallard 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  3. Great-crested Flycatcher 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  4. Great Blue Heron 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  5. Caspian Tern with Fish 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  6. Brown Pelican 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  7. Black Skimmer 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  8. Pacific-slope Flycatcher triptych 1920×990 Widescreen Wallpaper

Tricolored Heron Mallard

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Best of 2009 – Birds of Prey

13Jan/10
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I’m starting to upload the “Best of 2009″ images for your pleasure :) I apologize that it took me so long, I just didn’t have much time to go back and look through all the pictures. Hopefully you will like these – I’m providing them at high resolutions, so that you can use them as your desktop wallpapers.

More to come tomorrow!

  1. Rough-Legged Hawk 808×1200 Vertical Wallpaper
  2. Hawk Eating a Mouse 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  3. Harris’s Hawk 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  4. Great Horned Owl 1920×1200 Widescreen Wallpaper
  5. Ferruginous Hawk 810×1200 Vertical Wallpaper

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Harris's Hawk
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