Moab

Moab

Moab is truly an incredible place. Last week I headed out to the small city to photograph on the Jeff Clow Photo Tour (AKA: Dirt Cheap Photo Tour). Shooting in such a beautiful place was the easy part. The Physical and Environmental elements are what challenged me on this trip.  The High Winds, elevation and a small bout of food posining threatened my participation in the tour, but in the end I was able to photograph some amazing landscapes in all sorts of light and weather. The Landscape in Moab is unlike any other place I have travelled too. I shot well over 300GB worth of images in the 4 day tour. The Pentax 645z was my main camera along with a Nikon D4s and Nikon D800. It was hard to change lenses out in the field due to high winds and pelting red sand and rocks, so I tried to just shoot with what was on my cameras and use my feet as my zoom.

Moab is a selection of reds, blues, yellows, green's and every other colour you can imagine. You can photograph in all different forms of light, clouds, times of day and you will always come up with a different image.

Here is a small selection of images. I will be editing more in the coming week or so.

"Wisdom Tree" This moment was one of the most peaceful photographic experiences I have ever had. The lighting was unreal!!! Nikon D800 24-70mm 2.8

Flying into Moab in the 310

Wing tips over Arches National Park

Coming in on Final at Canyonlands Airport, Moab.

Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park. Pentax 645z 35mm 3.5 Lens

Mesa Arch, Canyonlands National Park. Nikon D4s 14-24mm 2.8 Lens

Professor Valley, Nikon D800

Arches National Park, Pentax 645z 35mm 2.8 Manual focused.

Nikon D800, 70-200mm

Nikon D4s South Windows looking at the Turret Arch.

Nikon D4s

12 Image Pentax 645z Panorama. Shot with the 35mm 3.5 lens and laced together with Auto Pan. The original file size is MASSIVE!!!

Nikon D800 24-70mm 2.8, Jag!!!

13 Stacked images to create the star trails.

JAG...Painting with light night photography. Nikon D4s 14-24mm

Canyonlands National Park

Pentax 645z, 35mm 3.5  Canyonlands National Park.

Pentax 645z, 35mm 3.5

Pentax 645z, 35mm 3.5.

Pentax 645z, 35mm 3.5 Arches National Park.

Pentax 645z, 35mm 3.5 Arches National Park.

Pentax 645z, 35mm 3.5 Arches National Park.

Pentax 645z, 35mm 3.5 Professor Valley.

Pentax 80-160mm

Pentax 80-160mm

I through the Pentax 645 FA 80-160mm F4.5 on the Pentax 645z.  The lens itself is rather sharp, but its HEAVY when attached to the Pentax 645z.  I realized that even at 1/500 of a sec the images can have some camera shake to them as well. The lens has nice contrast and I really enjoyed shooting with it.

Here are some images from today with the lens!

Nikon F3

Nikon F3

I finally had a chance to get 1 roll of film developed from my Nikon F3. The amazing Nikon "flag ship" SLR camera was given to me by my friend John David. The camera is in absolutely mint condition and I was told only had around 12 rolls of film ran through it!

Its harder to find places to develop film these days and its even harder to find film! I shot three rolls of film with the Nikon F3 thus far and two where Black and White. Unfortunately, London Drugs does not develop BW anymore. Or at least they told me it would take around 30 days to process the film. Crazy to think that film processing and wait times have changed so much, even in the last 5 years.

These images of course where scanned and then I ran them through Photoshop to Correct the colours. London Drugs, does not do the best scanning work, therefore some corrections had to be made.

Overall, the Nikon F3 is an incredible SLR to shoot with. The shutter is like pure butter and the camera itself operates so easily. I am going to attempt to hunt down some Transparency film and hopefully a better place to process my images at an attempt to shoot more with this amazing camera!!!

Final Fall Colours

Final Fall Colours

Here are a couple more shots from my fun trip to the Montana Bitterroot Valley and the last images of the beautiful Fall colours. Next time I head back there to visit, most of the tree's will of lost their leafs and the Yellows, Reds and Greens will have disappeared until next fall.

These images were taken on a variety of Cameras. Pentax 645z, Nikon D4s and the Nikon D800.

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D800 14-24 2.8

Nikon D4s 70-200mm 2.8, photographed from a A-Star Helicopter.

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

Penatx 645z 45mm 2.8

 

Nikon D800 14-24mm 2.8

Nikon D4s 70-200 2.8

Nikon D4s 70-200 2.8

Aerial Photography

Aarial Photography

Today we set out in an A-Star, during the early morning light to try to capture some of the amazing Bitterroot Mountain Ranges. These images where shot with a Penatx 645z with a 45mm 2.8 lens. I also had my Nikon D800 and D4s with me to capture some super wide and telephoto shots. Those to come later!

Here are some of the amazing mountain ranges that split Montana and Idaho's boarders!