Title: Big Sky, Small Mountains

Location: Langley, Washington, USA, North America

Description: It was a beautiful, uncommonly sunny day in the Puget Sound yesterday until the cold front started moving in around sunset. But it actually helped the cause of adding drama to a photo, so I took advantage of the timing for this shot on Whidbey Island. The most prominent mountain with the most amount of snow is Three Fingers. The next snowy one to the left is Whitehorse.

Shot with a Canon 7D and Canon 28-300mm L lens with settings of ISO 100, 28mm, f/5.6, 1/500th of a second

Photograph Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

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Title: Into The Sky

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA, North America

Description: A Delta jet heads East toward Mt. Hood along the Columbia River in Oregon on Sunday. Clear skies in the winter are enjoyed by a town often gray for months on end. At least that’s what they tell visitors thinking of moving to the area.

Shot with a Canon 7D and Canon 28-300mm L lens with settings of ISO 100, 190mm, f/22, 1/60th of a second from the top of the parking garage at Portland International Airport.

Photography Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

I will be returning to Portland in March to teach more photography and likely lead a free photowalk and travel slideshow. More information on the workshop is here and email me to be updated of the photowalk and slideshow (two separate events).

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Title: Green Rush

Location: Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, USA

Description: The outflow from Bridal Veil Falls (no, not that Bridal Veil Falls, the other one….no, the other, other one) cascades through a cleft in moss covered rocks before meeting up with the mighty Columbia River 400 yards later.

Photograph Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

I will be offering a 3 day workshop entitled Mountains, Waterfalls and Stars which will explore the rivers and mountains of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. The dates are June 22nd – June 24th, 2012. If you would be interested in learning more, please email me.

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Title:  Multnomah Falls

Location: Oregon, USA

Description: One of the most photogenic waterfalls in Oregon is also one of the easiest to get to. Right off I-84, the falls are phenomenal.

Photograph Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

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Title: Up, Up And Away

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA, North America

Description: A 30 second long exposure of a flight taking off from PDX. Timing is key in shots like this if a remote control is not handy. I hope to take some more shots from a different angle Friday night. Anyone in PDX want to join me?

Shot with a Canon 7D and Canon 10-22mm EF lens with settings of ISO 100, 18mm, f/16, 30 seconds

Photograph Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

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If you are of that ilk, I have some tour options for you. I’ve picked three sites to help get your ideas of traveling abroad going, plus a listing of my own photo tours, of course. The three sites are run by people I have befriended and would personally enjoy spending two weeks frozen in the Arctic with or a week sweltering in the jungles of Papua New Guinea or exploring the expanse of the Universe from the floor of Death Valley. Have a look if you’re looking for a photography tour or regular tour in 2012 or 2013.

NOTE: While this is a listing of current tours, all the operators here constantly update their sites as new trips are planned. They are all also available for customized tours if your trip idea is not listed.

Jim Goldstein

Jim is a San Francisco based photographer who loves the outdoors. Yosemite is in his backyard and he plans a number of trips there each year. His list of locations also includes Death Valley, the beaches around the Bay area and the American Southwest. Jim’s laidback attitude, while still being a tech-geek at heart, is a great combination of art and the technical aspects of photography making him an excellent instructor. Not only will you learn a ton from Jim’s workshops, you’ll want to hang out and have a beer with him afterward.

• Yosemite Moonbow Photo Tour – April 2012 – Yosemite, National Park, Moon, Waterfalls, Nature, Night Photography
• Tidepools & Macro Photography Photo Tour – May 2012 – Macro, Sealife, San Francisco
• Yosemite Moonbow Photo Tour – June 2012 – Yosemite, National Park, Moon, Waterfalls, Nature, Night Photography
• Glacier National Park, Montana – June 2012 – Glaciers, Nature, Wildlife, Night Photography
• Bisti Badlands, New Mexico – September 2012 – Night Photography, Macro, Desert, Nature
• Death Valley Racetrack – October 2012 – Desert, Nature, Night Photography, Light Painting, Experimentation, Landscape
• The Wave, Arizona – Fall 2012 – Patterns, Desert, Nature, Landscape, Sandstone

Jon Cornforth

Jon plans big. If you’re looking for pure adventure (which might read: some discomfort required to take in spectacular sites and awe inspiring nature) then take a look at what Jon offers. His tours are not for those wanting to sit five stories up on a cruise ship while maybe spotting a whale 3000’ away. His tours are perfect if you want to be in the thick of it; a hundred yards from a polar bear in the arctic or swimming with whales off the coast of Tonga. Really, he gets out there. Take a look at his offerings for the next couple of years:

• Humpback Whale Photography Tour – July & August 2012 – Whales, whales and more whales, sea life, Alaska, Tropics, Tonga, Adventures
• Polar Bear Photography Tour – October 2012 – Polar Bears, Arctic, Wildlife, Alaska, Land-Based, Sea-Based
• Mexico Sailfish Photography Tour – January 2013 – Diving, Sea Life, Underwater, Sailfish
• Japan Wildlife Photography Tour – February 2013 – Snow Monkeys, Cranes, Japan, Wildlife, Eagles

Beth Whitman

While Beth is not offering a specific photography tour, she has in the past. What’s more, Beth understands the idea behind traveling differently. Her tours don’t pass by the highlights at a 30 monument-a-day pace. She takes time to visit local villages and savor local flavors. Her tours are hand spun and she has personally inspected each location, having at least once lead a tour before setting up an itinerary. Her years of experience leading these tours (she’s never home when we gather for happy hour in Seattle!) and kind nature make her an easy choice if you want more of a mix of great photographic subjects and cultural connections.

Beth also offers women-only tours, something the guys above can never offer. ;)

• Vietnam and Cambodia Women-only Tour – March 2012 – People, History, Scenery, Culture, Villages, Angkor Wat, Mekong River
• Bhutan Women-only Buddhism Tour – Spring 2012 – Buddhism, Culture, History, Religion, Meditation, Yoga, Paro Festival, Tiger’s Nest
• Santa Fe Women-only Culinary Tour – June, 2012 – Food, Sun, Cooking Lessons, Native American History, Markets
• Papua New Guinea Mt. Hagen Show Cultural Tour – August 2012 – Co-ed, Culture, Islands, Jungle, Photography, Tribes, Mt. Hagen Festival
• Papua New Guinea Goroka Show – September 2012 – Co-ed, Culture, Homestay, Tribes, History, Goroka Show
• Rogue River Women-only Rafting Trip – Fall, 2012 – Rafting, Oregon, Outdoors, Wild And Scenic River
• Bhutan Women-only Culture and Festival Tour – Fall, 2012 – Jambay Lhakhang Teschu, Festival, Buddhism, Monasteries, Ritual
• Myanmar (Burma) Women-only Culture and Pagoda Tour – October 2012 – Culture, Cuisine, Religion, Tribes
• North India Women-only Cultural Tour – Fall, 2012 – Taj Mahal, Delhi, Bollywood, Hadicrafts, Daily Life

Peter West Carey

On to me. I endorse me because I earnestly love not only traveling but also teaching photography. My tours are focused on photography and experiencing local cultures. I keep my operations small so I can give personal attention to each of my guests, helping them learn photography while in exotic locations as much, or as little, as they want. My trips are centered around either an event, like the four day festivals in Bhutan, or an exotic location rich in photography subjects.  Take a look at what I have on deck for the next couple of years.

• India April 2012 – 16 Days – Delhi, Agra, Taj Mahal, Ranthambore National Park, Amritser, Jaipur, Varanasi – Tigers, architecture, festival, ceremony, religion, daily life, Ganges River
• Mountains, Waterfalls & Stars – 3 Days – Oregon, Cascade Mountains, Waterfalls, Columbia River, Mt. Hood, Night Photography, Mt. St. Helens
• Nepal Sept/Oct 2012 – 21 Days – Kathmandu, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalayas, Mt. Everest,Gokyo Ri
• Bhutan Oct. 2012 – 13 Days – Thimphu, Jakar 5 Day Festival, Bumthang, Religion, Ceremony, Tiger’s Nest
• Bhutan March 2013 – 13 Days – Paro, Paro 4 Day Festival, Thimphu, Tiger’s Nest, Culture
• Nepal Oct 2013 – 21 Days – Kathmandu, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Kalapathar
• India November 2013 – 16 Days – Pushkar 5 Day Festival, Camels, Nomadic Life, Taj Mahal, Architecture, Religion

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Title: Take Offs And Landings

Location: Portland, Oregon, USA, North America

Description: What’s going on here? First, this image was shot with a Canon 7D and Canon 28-300mm L lens with settings of ISO 100, 150mm, f/20, 30 seconds. What’s going is one plane is taking off and those are the streaks in the foreground, including the red and green wingtip lights. The little dots along those lines are created from strobes (lights that flash) on the wing tips. The bright lights in the middle and the front wheel lights.

The lights in the background are created from a plane on approach behind the plane that is taking off. As you can see, planes don’t often descend in a perfectly straight line. The last streak from right to left is front another plane approaching the other runway to the side.

Photograph Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

If you’re in the Portland area, I will be holding workshops on February 4th, 2012 and March 31st & April 1st, 2012.

More on this technique for Light Trails can be found here.

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Description: Ama Dablam Panorama Exploration

Location: Himalayas, Nepal

Description: The hidden lake and North side of Ama Dalam, Nepal

Shot with Canon 7D and Canon 28-300mm L lens

Photographs Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

Are you interested in joining a photo tour in Nepal in 2012? Email me for more information or click here.

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To use this image, simply click and drag to move around. Use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out, or use [Shift] to zoom in and [CTRL] to zoom out.  And if you want to turn things up a notch, right click and choose “Fullscreen”. Have fun!

Description: Lima Cityscape Panorama Exploration

Location: Lima, Peru, South America

Description: This image was created from 33 individual images, shot vertically to get the most foreground in as possible. I then combined the images in the computer and stitched them together using Kolor’s AutoPano Giga software which handled all the magic. I will be writing about the process I use to create these images soon at Digital Photography School. If I were evil, I’d ask you to find the man walking his dog…but I’m not THAT evil, maybe.

Shot with Canon 7D and Canon 28-300mm L lens with settings of ISO 100, 28mm, f/8 and 1/640th of a second.

Photographs Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

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Description: Colorado River Panorama Exploration

Location: Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA

Description: Just off the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park are numerous view points of the Colorado River, including this isolated spot. Visiting in March, there are few other tourists and the place seems as it has been for thousands of years.

Photographs Creative Commons Copyright Peter West Carey

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