Going back into the archives from last summer I found a few untouched shots from a weekend camping trip to Mount Rogers Virginia. In the 1970?s feral ponies were introduced into Grayson Highlands State Park to help control the vegetation growth and have thrived for several generations. Despite the park rules people hiking the mountainside have fed them for years resulting in them becoming very used to people and even a little aggressive. As I...

I’ve been itching to take my new Tamron 10-24mm lens out for a test run but between work and the weather opportunities have been few and far between. Sunday offered the best chance to get out and grab a few shots. It’s been a long time since I processed an HDR image and I’ll probably rework this one at least once more to clean up a few things that I feel are still off. This is a decommissioned U.S. Army AH-1 Cobra that saw...

Today’s image comes from the archives of my 2011 fall road trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway. During those 3 days, I made a point to shoot very simple compositions of trees along the trails and paths that I hiked while collecting waterfall images. I wasn’t exactly sure how I would use them at the time but I had a few ideas in mind, one of which was to create works such as this one. Gear: Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm...

In the comments for the original post of this image, many of you expressed interest in seeing how it was created. I’m still very new to Photoshop and by no means to I claim to be an expert. I’m sure there are better and more efficient methods for doing this but these steps got me where I wanted to go. This is the first image tutorial I’ve posted so I hope that I have included enough information and you are able to follow along....

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last several weeks simply taking in what other photographers are doing in the niche of photo-abstract/manipulations. I have found that the possibilities for these images really are limitless. I recently came across a technique for creating an image with a heavily blurred background while keeping one or more elements stationary and thought I would try my hand at it. The concept is very simple and...