Lost River Range. Lots of wind and squalls and cooler weather…
Mixed light. Lost River Range. June 2020.
Silver Creek Landscape
Location: Picabo, Idaho
Early June, 2020
While it will undoubtedly be a severe drought year, it’s spring-green and beautiful at the moment.
Silver Creek. Early June
Silver Creek, Idaho Landscape
I drove down to Silver Creek yesterday to take a look at a bunch of things including the water clarity and ice factor on Silver Creek near Picabo. The wind blew out of the east with high clouds. Temps were right around 32˚ and the dirt roads were still frozen enough so as not to become a muddy mess. The water clarity is good with some siltation. Ice is limited to the banks. The more off color it gets the better the streamer fishing seems to be. Too windy to notice any midges. Silver Creek downstream of HWY 20 stays open through February.
Ordinary Landscapes
So I now have a title for a really broad project I am working on. It's, Ordinary Landscapes. My goal, with whatever camera I have at the moment, is to take an image of a pretty ordinary landscape, and to have the viewer loose him or herself in it. Could be color, could be black and white. Doesn't matter.
Both of the images above were taken with the iPhone 5 and edited in Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Idaho Open Range
Here is a recent image of an Idaho landscape near Mountain Home, Idaho. The horse added an animate touch to the desolate and rather bleak area. It's on the cold side here in Ketchum today with the start to the ski day at 11 below zero.
Wheel Line Motor Section
Here's an image taken near Gannett, Idaho. It's the motor section of a wheel line used for agriculture. This piece has been sitting solo since mid-October. The primary crops near Gannett and Picabo are barley and alfalfa. Certainly a symbol of anachronistic methods. Water and it's use has always been a fascinating issue for me. I will be posting all types of images related to water on this site.
I used the tilt function on the Nikon 24 pc-e lens to limit the depth of field on the two sides while maximizing the DOF in the middle part of the foreground all the way to infinity. The 24 pc-e lens is probably my favorite lens despite the manual focus.
I used Nik's Silver Effex Pro 2 to convert the RAW image to black and white. A favorite tool of mine within Silver Effex is the color filter. In the image above I selected blue to edit the sky and slightly adjusted the hue and hue strength sliders to darken the blues, ie the sky.
Nikon D3s, Nikon 24 pc-e lens