by Don McGowan | Dec 1, 2019 | November 2019
One hundred and sixty million years ago a deposit of creamy, erosive entrada sandstone was laid down in the shallows of an inland sea in what is now southern Utah. Sixty million years later, along the margins of a younger shore, a harder, more resistent layer of...
by Don McGowan | Nov 23, 2019 | November 2019
I was always taught that when the weather is changing, it’s time to go outside. So about a month ago I took a student to Pounding Mill Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway for sunrise. We knew from the forecast the day prior that there was a good possibility that...
by Don McGowan | Nov 17, 2019 | November 2019
When autumn leaves start to fall, it might be a good time to consider intentional camera movement as a creative technique. What I realize more and more is that there are a number of unique approaches to the ICM idea and that it is well to try all of them as an...
by Don McGowan | Nov 10, 2019 | November 2019
There is something magical about a fall-foliage forest that has lost a good part of its colorful leafy cloak. The foliage that remains after the initial attacks of wind and rain seem to offer ways of “seeing through” that are not present in the crowded,...
by Don McGowan | Nov 2, 2019 | November 2019
Sometimes my good intentions lead me astray. I had every intention, when I began to process this image, of allowing the appealing fall colors I had captured to remain the stars of the show. Somehow along the way the lines, shapes, and forms of this intimate place...
