I made today’s shot back in February and have looked back to it several times since trying to find a fitting way to process and present it. In the end, a black and white conversion seemed to be the best fit. It was already a very busy image and the addition of bright green moss covering the roots and the orange of the leaves made it all the more distracting. Converting it to black and white removed the additional distractions allowing the...

Contained within the inner walls of Fort Macon are 26 large rooms with vaulted ceilings. Some of the rooms have been staged to give visitors an idea of what they were used for when the fort was an active post but most of them have been left empty. This shot was taken from the inner courtyard looking into one of these empty rooms where you can see the outermost wall through the barred window. Gear: Canon EOS 60D, Tamron AF 10-24mm Settings:...

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...