For my last show, they asked that I prepare a demo of the craft, this would have been demo number 2.  Sadly, the show’s logistic did not permit the demonstration and I don’t want to waste all of the effort getting these two demos ready, so I’m going to reshare them as a blog post.  Part 1 on the Greenland Iceberg 1 is here.

I hope you enjoy a look behind the scenes at how I shot and processed the image that I call ‘Schwabacher Landing’, because the location is called Schwabacher Landing.

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Persistence is key to results.  The weather doesn’t always cooperate.

On a trip several years ago, I went to a place called Schwabacher Landing, a landmark in the Grand Teton National Park, for a sunrise photoshot.

This would be a fantastic photo, but it is missing one thing — The Mountain!

Everything else about this image is great.  I had my tripod locked, the camera in manual, it was all ready to go.  For an hour.  And no mountain.

This brings up an important aspect of landscape photography – patience.

Two days later, I had another chance to go.  It was a late-day shoot, so not sunrise nor sunset (we had something else planned for sunset).  There was about 30 minutes to try again.

I liked everything about the first image.  And so I ran ahead to get everything as close as possible to the earlier image.

The final image is just a little wider than the first attempt.  But it has the mountain, and reflection, and the framing is quite nice.  While I may not have found my exact tripod holes, I got what I came for and I am very happy with this image.

This is an image with a lot of details.  If you’d like one for yourself, I recommend 12×18 or even 16×24!  It looks great big and I even have a copy on my office wall.

-B