Photographing nature and when possible wildlife has always been my primary direction with my photography. A few years ago a new style of photography called high dynamic range or HDR emerged. I immediately liked what I saw and soon began experimenting with the various in camera techniques and computer software used to produce these images. As I suspect a lot of HDR practitioners have I was first taken by the wonderful images of Trey Ratcliff of StuckinCustoms.com. Trey has always been very open about sharing his work and techniques believing that such an attitude would eventually lead him to fame and ultimately fortune. Not sure how much fortune can be made thru photography these days but I think from my perspective I would have to say he has been extremely successful. Recently I have been impressed by the work of three other fine HDR photographers….. Cheyenne Rouse of CheyenneRouse.com, Kim Seng of CaptainKimo.com and Angela Pan of ABPan.com. Now to my ‘course correction’. As an early adopter of HDR I made images in that style and even added a few to my site but still maintained some traditional style images on my web page. I’ve retired from real work and now get to play at my photography. And as I plan to travel a lot this year I thought it was important to settle on which way I planned to shoot the ‘Specks on the Map’ I see along the way before I headed out. I thought it was also important to reflect that on my site. Well I can’t imagine not shooting HDR so that’s where my work is heading. If you happen to notice changes to my website in the coming weeks it will simply be to align what I am presenting with my current style. Thanks for listening.
