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A Photographer to Match the Mountains | June 12, 2013

 

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Painted Wall in Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park, Colorado Buy This Print

It was a treat to see my buddy John Fielder at the recent Moab Photo Symposium.  Both I and people who love Colorado owe him a high debt of gratitude. For me personally, a chance meeting with John and his family in Yankee Boy Basin in 1985 led to his company, Westcliffe Publishers, publishing nine books with me as sole photographer over a 15 year period, and a very successful Utah calendar during this period...

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Finders Keepers | May 12, 2013


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Personal exploration, researching old documents, looking for locations in movies and on tv, networking with friends and fans are just a few of the ways I come up with new locations. How this can work is best demonstrated by an example. A friend and I had been hiking in Canyonlands and were driving home when I noticed an area with a huge number of south-facing alcoves thousands of feet above us...

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Delicate Arch and Me | Apr 30th, 2013

 delicate-arch-reflectionsDelicate Arch Reflections © Tom Till

I have this strange relationship with possibly the most popular scenic attraction in the Canyon Country. When I started out with a 4x5 camera in the 1970's,  I maintained this young guy belief that I should skip shooting all the iconic locations and just shoot the unknown backcountry subjects.  I actually became know by editors as the "guy who wouldn't shoot Delicate Arch"...

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#196 of #201 - Iguazu Falls, Brazil/Argentina
 
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Cloud Rays at Iguazu Fall, Brazil Side
 
One of South America's biggest tourist destinations, Iguazu Falls, is perhaps the world's greatest cascade. Though the trail on the Brazil side of the falls is only one kilometer long, I spent a week shooting there. Every day, sunrise, and sunset were different.
 

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Location, Location | March 20th, 2013

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Over the years I have tried to push the envelope on the locations I've shot. I remember Adams saying something about sweat equity in a photograph--meaning the more you sweat to get the image, the better it probably would be...

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