All posts filed under: Landscape

A New Look at a Favorite View

August 5, 2021
by Michael Scandling
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Abstract / California / Horizon / Impressionism / Inspiration / Landscape / Photo Log / Photography / Point Reyes / Seascapes

December 12, 2016. Point Reyes National Seashore. June 20, 2021. My Office. I’ve been reworking some old favorites recently as I update my website. This was taken during a family getaway. I’ve made several versions but I was never quite in love. Here are two stages of evolution of a whole new look. One is somewhere between literal and impressionist: And one is further abstracted: I’m on a journey to the land of minimalism. It’s […]

A Full Deck

October 16, 2020
by Michael Scandling
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Abstract / California / Horizon / Impressionism / Landscape / Photo Log / Photography

October 5, 2020 — San Francisco Bay, California The fog deck hung fully over the bay. Nothing more to say except that this could have been taken at 900 feet — which it was — or 30,000 feet. It would’ve looked the same either way. (Nikon D500, Tamron 100–400mm f/4.5–6.3 Di VC USD. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.3; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.) PS — I’m getting disentangled from other activities and I shall return to […]

A Dream

September 25, 2020
by Michael Scandling
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Abstract / California / ICM / Impressionism / Inspiration / Landscape / Photo Log / Photography

July 12, 2020 — Marin County Headlands, California; September 24, 2020 — My Office …realized. I woke up at 4 a.m. with a different treatment of an ICM image from a previous shoot in mind. I went back to sleep with a smile in my face. A few hours later, not even halfway through my first cup of coffee, there it was. And here it is. Despite what it says below, this was all done […]

Mystery Mountain

August 1, 2020
by Michael Scandling
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Abstract / California / ICM / Impressionism / Inspiration / Landscape / Photo Log / Photography

July 12, 2020 — Marin County Headlands, California I did a lot of ICM pans while waiting for the comet NEOWISE to appear over Mount Tamalpais on July 12. The RAW file of this shot had been sitting in archives since then, several times passed over as an also-ran. Today I saw it with new eyes. It had potential. Every single element took part in the slow pixel dance, changing color, tone, and contrast relationships […]