1. Valley of Fire sunset at The Fire Wave
2. Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley
3. Myrtle Falls and Mt. Rainier
Keep shooting!
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy (http://www.nature.org/) has a daily photo contest from pictures submitted to their Flickr site. Three of mine were chosen for different daily photos:
1. Valley of Fire sunset at The Fire Wave
2. Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley
3. Myrtle Falls and Mt. Rainier
Keep shooting!
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
1. Valley of Fire sunset at The Fire Wave
2. Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley
3. Myrtle Falls and Mt. Rainier
Keep shooting!
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
Monday, June 24, 2013
Supermoon
I headed out to the Griffith Observatory last night to check out the supermoon. Media always hypes it up and the observatory is always packed. Last time I tried to go, I wasn't able to get to my location in time. This time, I was there but needed to be down the hill further, as I want a shot of the moon coming up directly behind the observatory. I'll have to check out the next one and find a way to climb the hill where I need to be ahead of time.
Haven't really shot the moon too many times so still learning. I tried to shoot some multi-exposure shots to combine in post processing but realized that the moon moves pretty significantly from my 2 shots. Next time I'll have to up the ISO to increase the shutter speed.
There was a decent sunset behind me, facing west towards the Hollywood sign.
Moon rising....I needed to be a few hundred yards to my left to get it coming up behind the observatory. The moon didn't appear nearly as big as it did last year either.
Single exposure shot of the moon, the observatory, and Los Angeles.
It was pretty hazy and smoggy so wasn't the best of days to shoot. Maybe next time I'll get the shot I actually have been wanting for some time now. I guess I can just chalk it up to experience.
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
Haven't really shot the moon too many times so still learning. I tried to shoot some multi-exposure shots to combine in post processing but realized that the moon moves pretty significantly from my 2 shots. Next time I'll have to up the ISO to increase the shutter speed.
There was a decent sunset behind me, facing west towards the Hollywood sign.
Moon rising....I needed to be a few hundred yards to my left to get it coming up behind the observatory. The moon didn't appear nearly as big as it did last year either.
Single exposure shot of the moon, the observatory, and Los Angeles.
It was pretty hazy and smoggy so wasn't the best of days to shoot. Maybe next time I'll get the shot I actually have been wanting for some time now. I guess I can just chalk it up to experience.
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Nature's Best Photography Feature - Spring/Summer 2013
After our Pacific Northwest trip to Mt. Rainier National Park, I submitted a few photos to the Nature's Best photography website. They ended up choosing this photo for "photo of the week" and displayed it on their website.
I also received a complementary subscription to the magazine, and was amazed at the quality of both the photographs published and the magazine itself.
I was then contacted as the Spring/Summer 2013 issue was featuring a few of the "photo of the week" images. I submitted a hi-res image along with a blurb and some general information. The following was the end result, which can be seen on page #84.
I would highly suggest checking out their magazine. While pricey and only bi-annual, the quality blows most others out of the water. You can check them out at http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/. I'm extremely honored to be recognized and featured by them, and it inspires me to go out and continue shooting. I'm just fortunate that J and I can continue traveling, taking pictures along the way and documenting memories to look back on.
We'll be back in the PNW in a month, but this time to Olympic National Park.
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
I also received a complementary subscription to the magazine, and was amazed at the quality of both the photographs published and the magazine itself.
I was then contacted as the Spring/Summer 2013 issue was featuring a few of the "photo of the week" images. I submitted a hi-res image along with a blurb and some general information. The following was the end result, which can be seen on page #84.
I would highly suggest checking out their magazine. While pricey and only bi-annual, the quality blows most others out of the water. You can check them out at http://www.naturesbestphotography.com/. I'm extremely honored to be recognized and featured by them, and it inspires me to go out and continue shooting. I'm just fortunate that J and I can continue traveling, taking pictures along the way and documenting memories to look back on.
We'll be back in the PNW in a month, but this time to Olympic National Park.
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Wheeler Gorge
Took another 1-night camping trip at the Wheeler Gorge campground near Ojai. We wanted to bring Georgie this time, and this was one of the only sites that allowed dogs that wasn't all booked up already. Georgie gets carsick, so we broke up the drive and stopped at Wildwood Park in Thousand Oaks to do some hiking on the way up to the campsite.
We hiked a short 2 mile round trip hike to Paradise Falls.
The falls were pretty cool. Not many waterfalls around socal so can't really expect much. There weren't too many vantage points to shoot from without getting wet/muddy so I snapped a few and we had breakfast.
Through the grass:
Using a ND filter to smooth the water and show movement in the moss:
Group shot:
We then made our way up to the campground. Georgie in the car:
The site was ok. Not too secluded, but lots of shade from the trees. Ended up just hanging around the site so didn't take many landscape pictures. Since we weren't on the go for lunch this time, we made hobo packs with sausage, potatoes, peppers, and mushrooms.
The JJ's had left over chili from Nixon's bday so we had chili burgers for dinner.
Few pics just hanging around the site from mine and J's camera.
I wasn't expecting to see many stars at night, but surprisingly there were quite a few. We were surrounded by other sites and trees tho so there weren't any good areas to shoot from so I didn't take any this time. Figure we will head back out to Anza Borrego again to try for a darker night.
Not sure if we will take any more camping trips this year. Definitely going to head up to the sierras for fall colors but it will be too cold to tent camp and we will probably stay at a condo in Mammoth.
Next big trip is back to the pacific northwest to Seattle and Olympic National park....cant wait!
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
We hiked a short 2 mile round trip hike to Paradise Falls.
The falls were pretty cool. Not many waterfalls around socal so can't really expect much. There weren't too many vantage points to shoot from without getting wet/muddy so I snapped a few and we had breakfast.
Through the grass:
Using a ND filter to smooth the water and show movement in the moss:
Group shot:
We then made our way up to the campground. Georgie in the car:
The site was ok. Not too secluded, but lots of shade from the trees. Ended up just hanging around the site so didn't take many landscape pictures. Since we weren't on the go for lunch this time, we made hobo packs with sausage, potatoes, peppers, and mushrooms.
The JJ's had left over chili from Nixon's bday so we had chili burgers for dinner.
Few pics just hanging around the site from mine and J's camera.
I wasn't expecting to see many stars at night, but surprisingly there were quite a few. We were surrounded by other sites and trees tho so there weren't any good areas to shoot from so I didn't take any this time. Figure we will head back out to Anza Borrego again to try for a darker night.
Not sure if we will take any more camping trips this year. Definitely going to head up to the sierras for fall colors but it will be too cold to tent camp and we will probably stay at a condo in Mammoth.
Next big trip is back to the pacific northwest to Seattle and Olympic National park....cant wait!
Brandon Yoshizawa
B.A.Y | photography
Landscape and Wildlife photography
www.bay-photography.com
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