Month: June 2022

News and Awards

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I am honored that I had several of my printed photos selected to win awards at the San Diego Fair’s Exhibition of Photography. I entered 15 photos. Of those 9 were selected to be printed and further judged for the exhibition. Of those 9, 6 won an award.

The highest honor went to “Rainforest Den,” receiving the “Coordinator’s Award.” This photo is displayed on the first wall you see when entering the exhibition beside the “Best of Show” photo. The photo titled, ” Lines in the Sand”, taken at Death Valley National Park won an overall Honorable Mention. The three on the bottom row, each received 4th place in their respective categories. Emerging Rose and Garnett Peak each received a “Donated Award” from different photo groups.

Rainforest Den
Lines in the Sand
Emerging Rose
Daisy and Snail
Dancers in the Meadow
Garnet Peak, November 2019

Tips from Photographers
Award Winning Photographers Share Tips on How to Succeed

As a result of getting various awards, I was asked to be part of a panel discussion at the fair on Saturday June 25 from 7-9PM. If you live in the area and wish to stop by, I would love to see you there.

Prints for Sale

In other news, most of my photos area available to purchase as prints. I updated my website to include information about purchasing prints. You can view this here.

Prints on Display

Finally, I printed several photos for a friend’s dental office in San Marcos. Three of them were large prints, 72 by 48 inches. They really came great! People are commenting that they look like paintings! Here are some photos from her office.

Dancers in the Meadow, Zion National Park, 2020
Hilltop Garden, San Diego 2019
Audience of Stones (on the right), Laguna Mountains for San Diego, November 2019

Coming soon: I will post more photos from my 3-week road trip. The next posts will focus on the redwoods on the northern California coast. Thanks for following along!

Silver Falls State Park

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The second area I visited in Oregon was Silver Falls State Park. There is a seven-mile loop trail called the “Trail of Ten Falls.” These waterfalls are spectacular with several that you can walk behind with the water pouring over the cliff edge above. I learned that this area is considered a rain forest, getting about 80 inches of rain per year. Compare that to San Diego, where we get 8 inches of rain in a good year.

The challenge of shooting these waterfalls was getting down to the base, which usually required going off trail. There were plenty of signs to stay on the trail and this limited my ability to create compositions that might be different than what has already been done.

I thoroughly enjoyed this scene and chose to shoot it on two occasions. I found it along the Trail of Ten Falls.

Moss Covered Rocks
18mm, 5 sec at f/14, ISO 50

It was quite exciting to walk behind the waterfalls and feel their power from within. The waterfalls below all had a trail leading behind them to the other side.

South Falls
24mm, 1.3 sec at f/16, ISO 100
North Falls
29mm, 1 sec at f/14, ISO 100
Trail Behind the Falls – Middle North Falls
18mm, 3.2 sec at f/16, ISO 50
Curtain of Water – This is another view of Middle North Falls
16mm, 1.3 sec at f/16m, ISO 50
Behind the Water – This is another view of North Falls
14mm, 1.3 sec at f/16, ISO 64

To see the complete collection of photos from Waterfalls of Oregon from this post and the previous one, click here.