Photo Of The Day By Bob Faucher

Photo By Bob Faucher Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Kalihiwai Valley” by Bob Faucher. Location: Kauai. “Just outside of Kilauea, on the island of Kauai, is the beautiful Kalihiwai Valley, whose fertile lands are watered by the river of the same name,” says Faucher. 28-70mm @ 70; Fujichrome; scanned with Nikon Supercoolscan. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo...

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Photo Of The Day By Beth Young

Photo By Beth Young Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Fern and Clover Forest Sunburst” by Beth Young. Location: Redwood State Park, California. “This particular grove of redwoods has a gorgeous carpet of clover on the forest floor, but I found it a challenging location for compositions due to bright, sunny skies and a general busyness from many spindly saplings,” explains Young. “When I concentrated...

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Shapes, Lines, Patterns And Textures in Nature, Part 1

Patterns, curves, shapes and more are the building blocks upon which all structures originate. Whether it’s a repetitive hexagon formulated into a beehive or the foundational structure of a multi-story office building, they’re found everywhere. Factors that determine the success of the capture start with lens choice and subject. These evolve into reading the light, color and contrast. Shooting angle...

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Photo Of The Day By Robert Henderson

Photo By Robert Henderson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Klipspringer Summit” by Robert Henderson. Location: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. “These agile little antelopes can easily outmaneuver lions and even leopards on the rocks in the daytime,” says Henderson. “Nighttime is another matter, of course. At dusk, their coarse, bristle-like fur takes on the colors of sunset.” Canon 7D Mark II, EF...

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Photo Of The Day By Tom Thomson

Photo By Tom Thomson Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Little Giant” by Tom Thomson. Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. “I set my camera on the ground upside down, hanging it out the window of the vehicle with a monopod and a cable release,” explains Thomson. Exposure: 1/1000th sec., f/11, ISO 720. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is...

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Last Frame: Equilibrium

Photo By Linn Smith “On almost a daily basis while living in a country-like environment, squirrels abound, performing numerous activities,” says Linn Smith. “One of their cutest behaviors occurs when two of them race up and down trees, seemingly trying to outdo each other with ability and speed. Witnessing their various feats, one watches in awe of the enormous performances they can accomplish. “One...

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Photo Of The Day By Harry Lichtman

Photo By Harry Lichtman Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Many Glacier Valley” by Harry Lichtman. Location: Glacier National Park, Montana. “A stormy sunrise over the Many Glacier Valley and Lake Sherburne in Glacier National Park,” describes Lichtman. “Grey clouds turned every shade of orange and red as the first rays of the sun struck the distant peaks. These kinds of mornings can bring rain, overcast...

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Lake Superior’s North Shore

Lake Superior is incredibly vast, and with its distinction as the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area—31,700 square miles—this inland sea lives up to its name. Superior’s coastline borders on three U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario, and its characteristics are as varied as its size. The lake’s North Shore, stretching more than 150 miles from the port city of Duluth, Minnesota,...

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Lake Superior’s North Shore

Lake Superior is incredibly vast, and with its distinction as the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area—31,700 square miles—this inland sea lives up to its name. Superior’s coastline borders on three U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario, and its characteristics are as varied as its size. The lake’s North Shore, stretching more than 150 miles from the port city of Duluth, Minnesota,...

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The Green Scene Assignment Winner Tom Elenbaas

Congratulations to Tom Elenbaas for winning the Green Scene Photography Assignment with the image, “Prairie Creek.” See more of Elenbaas’s photography at www.tomelenbaas.com.  View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! [See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com] The...

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Photo Of The Day By James Day

Photo By James Day Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Smokies View” by James Day. Location: Smoky Mountain National Park, Tennessee. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Photo Of The Day By Jeff Nigro

Photo By Jeff Nigro Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Rainier” by Jeff Nigro. Location: Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Unique Texas Wildlife

Raucous calls outside my photo blind alerted me to a pair of green jays, an extremely colorful songbird. To photograph them, you must travel to the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas. This songbird is one of many wildlife species found only in Texas. Green jays at Martin Refuge in the Rio Grande Valley. Texas is the largest state in the continental U.S., so you’ll want to plan your trip there thoroughly...

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Photo Of The Day By Troy Harrison

Photo By Troy Harrison Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Hello It’s Me” by Troy Harrison. Location: Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Collier County, Florida. “A great blue heron sees its reflection in the still marsh waters along the Marsh Trail in Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge,” describes Harrison. “On winter mornings, this marsh is an excellent place to find a variety...

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Worm’s Eye View Assignment Winner Kris Walkowski

Congratulations to Kris Walkowski for winning the recent Worm’s Eye View Assignment with the image, “Yosemite In Fall.” View the winning image and a selection of submissions in the gallery below. And be sure to check out our current photography assignment here and enter your best shots! [See image gallery at www.outdoorphotographer.com] The post Worm’s Eye View Assignment Winner Kris Walkowski...

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Photo Of The Day By Kristen Ryan

Photo by Kristen Ryan Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Patricia Lake” by Kristen Ryan. Location: Jasper National Park, Alberta. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and...

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Working With Shadows In Your Photography

A shadow is the result of the relationship between the subject’s location and the direction of the light source. With front light, the shadow falls behind the subject. When side lit, it appears on the opposite side that’s lit. When the sun is directly overhead, the shadow is revealed under the subject. The more intense the source of light, the deeper the shadow and higher the contrast. When working...

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Photo Of The Day By Kathleen Wasselle Croft

Photo by Kathleen Wasselle Croft Today’s Photo Of The Day is “El Capitan Reflection” by Kathleen Wasselle Croft. Location: Yosemite National Park, California. “El Capitan makes a perfect reflection in the Merced River,” describes Croft. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests....

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Photo Of The Day By Linn Smith

Photo by Linn Smith Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Water Disturbance” by Linn Smith. Location: Florida. “Spotting a fish, a great egret quickly dives its bill into the water and makes a huge splash in an attempt to hit its mark,” describes Smith. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests....

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Photo Of The Day By Jeff Harshaw

Photo By Jeff Harshaw Today’s Photo Of The Day is “River Wide, Mountains High” by Jeff Harshaw. Location: Mammoth Lakes, California. “When I went out this afternoon, I had an objective in mind, get the upper Owens River and the Sherwin range of the Sierra Nevada mountains together in my frame,” says Harshaw. “There was a spring storm coming through, so I thought I might get a really great sunset...

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Photo Of The Day By Ae Sun Choi

Today’s Photo Of The Day is “The Structure of the Body Created by Shadows in the Desert” by Ae Sun Choi. Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo of the Day is chosen from various galleries, including Assignments, Galleries and Contests. Assignments have weekly winners that are featured on the website homepage, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram....

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Photo Of The Day By Denis Dessoliers

Photo By Denis Dessoliers Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Mono Lake” by Denis Dessoliers. Location: Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve, California. “Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve is located near Yosemite National Park within Mono County, in eastern California,” says Dessoliers. “It was established in 1981 by the California State Legislature to preserve the natural limestone ‘tufa tower’ formations...

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Photo Of The Day By Jeff Sullivan

Photo by Jeff Sullivan Today’s Photo Of The Day is “Starry Sierra Nevada Landscape” by Jeff Sullivan. Location: California. “I like to shoot star trails in this location, but I decided to capture a still image on this night,” explains Sullivan. “I liked the result so much, it’s printed on metal and sitting on my mantel!” Want to get your images in the running for a Photo of the Day feature? Photo...

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Photographing Mother Nature’s Offerings

There are certain scenic views that leave you in awe no matter how many times you return to photograph. Whether it’s rounding the bend north out of Jackson Hole and seeing the Teton Range, hiking to the edge of many pullouts along the trail in Canyonlands National Park, walking through a field of wildflowers in July in the Colorado high country or walking the beaches of the Oregon coast, I’ll always...

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