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Posts tagged ‘Reflections’

Nov 1

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Oak Creek Fall Reflections

I’ve spent 10 days camping next to Oak Creek and now it’s time to go home…darn. Here’s a parting shot from Oak Creek which is just steps from my campsite. This campground is so popular, I just made reservations for next fall! (I wanted to be sure to get a spot on Oak Creek). Fall color or not, I can’t wait 🙂 See more of my Sedona fall photos on my G+ page. gplus.to/ezpixels

Oct 21

Oak Creek Reflections

I’m especially looking forward to photographing reflections because you never know what you’ll get! I tend to like shooting a very slow shutterspeeds for swipes of color. This was taken in between giving it just a slight painterly look. 1/50th second at f/13.

Oct 18

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West Fork Fall Color

Oak Creek reflections on the West Fork Trail north of Sedona. No…not from today. This was shot in 2002. I’ll be happy if all we find is a little color like this.

Sep 29

Slow Motion River Reflections

Photographing reflections is so much fun because you never know what you’ll get. At first, you probably won’t even see them but once you shoot a few, your eye becomes trained to recognize reflections immediately and you’ll start looking for them everywhere. The colors here are from the blue sky and green trees with a slight bit of orange from the canyon walls. I like shooting both to freeze the motion, which gives a glass-like look, and using a slow shutter speed such as this one. Tip: The best time to get good reflections is very early or very late in the day. This is a hand held shot of Virgin River at .5 second and f/22.

Sep 23

Virgin River Reflections

You don’t need much water for reflections. Virgin River in Zion National Park.

Oct 10

Oak Creek Reflections

The reflected colors are from the sky, red rocks and Sycamore trees.

Jul 22

Cool Thoughts

When it gets really hot, reviewing my archived water images leads to cool and refreshing thoughts of upcoming trips to places with streams and waterfalls…ahhhh. Mind over matter, right?! This image of a Mallard breaking up fall color reflections was taken last October on the West Fork Trail. One shot and the duck flew away. At first I almost deleted the image because it was kind of in between abstract and sharp but the more I look at it, the more I like it.

Jun 25

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Oak Creek Reflection

I have two favorite ways of capturing fall color. One is to shake my camera at it and the other is to shoot reflections of it. Both can be a hit or miss process but sometimes you get some really interesting results and it’s such fun! This reflection was in Oak Creek which runs along most of the West Fork Trail in Sedona.