Nature Photography
nature imagery
Nature photography always seemed to me like a kind of syrupy, middle of the road subject dense media that only world famous professional photographers at National Geographic could muster. Even people I know with grants have a long slushy road to get the money to make those projects worthwhile.
I watched documentaries where historians and rambling photographers took thousands of pictures yet only a tiny few, a handful were selected for the golden ring of publication. But it was only after I got a really great camera, and got comfortable using it, that I realized from a microstock point of view the world of Nature photography was all mine.
I spent three months in Oregon, roving freely during all different types of weather, light , weather conditions and environment. I got some of the best shots of my career, and many of them have deep meaning to me. Rains turned the place green, I absorbed full Fall nature spectrums of red and yellow and green leaves, and the riches were mine.
I spent entire days coming home breathing heavily, used up batteries in warlike piles everywhere, backaches galore over the editing, cropping ,and inevitable slideshows. But the quality and scope of the material blew me away.
I saw a documentary about a famous Oregon photographer who used to hike up into the mountains for weeks to get a resultant handful of published shots. But with work this portfolio will expand.
But at the same time I captured enough working photography images for a slew of articles and online websites, and have a huge reservoir to draw from. I had one of my fiercest critics tell me I really should be taking pictures for National Geographic, and I felt she was correct. I enjoyed maximising my travel time to a unique location and getting a large amount of usable photography out of it.
But the best part of my sojourn was getting such a backlog of images that I can source without any more short trips the microstock gallery photos I may need. The base amount of photos I have will only expand in value with Photoshop and cropping.
