Posted on 9-28-09
Stonington Harbour, Maine
Because almost all photographic shooitng and printing is now digital, we are capable of making photographs far more beautiful and far more faithful to the real world than we ever have before. And as everyone who regularly deals with computers knows, it also means living with a bunch of very complex, temperamental equipment that goes haywire pretty regularly.
Posted on 9-21-09
Difficult exposues like this one just can't be printed
without Photoshop
Mostly real landscape photographers use Photoshop to bring a scene back to what it actually looked like before the camera screwed it up. For example, cameras don't see nearly as many levels of brightness as the human eye does. This is why photographs often show what was originally a bright blue sky as blank white or why they show the gorgeous shadows at dusk and dawn as pure black. One of the main jobs of photoshop is to fix problems like this.
Posted on 9-15-09
In this scene of Glacier National Park, only scraps
of Glaciers are left.
The melting of Glaciers is particularly apparent in Glacier National Park. In 1850 there were 150 named Glaciers in the Park. Now there are 26. Back in the 1990's the USGS was predicting that Glacier National Park would have no glaciers left at all by 2030, now they are predicting that this will happen by 2020. In 1850 there were 21.6 square kilometers of Glaciers in the Park, by 1974 this had shrunk to 7.4 square kilometers and today there are only scraps of glaciers left.
Posted on 9-10-09
In the Green River Lakes area of the Wind River Mountains in
Wyoming seen above, the lodgepole pines are rapidly dying.
Almost every tree in the campground had been killed by pine beetles, leaving standing dead trees covered with ugly red and brown needles. According to the ranger, these trees tend to fall and kill people if they are left standing in campgrounds, so Forest Service policy is to cut them all down. The beautiful 100 site campground was now down to about six scrubby little sites way off to one side of what was once a great campground.
Our photography booth in Breckenridge, CO
Joan and I began our art career as potters
our lives on the
art-show road.
Building our house in Corrales, NM
you decide to drop out and be a hippie
Taking and making this picture was lots easier than
selling it at an art show.
Fred Hanselmann photographing in
Colorado
