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Landscapes, travel

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Landscape photography is I think in many ways one of the hardest genre’s of photography and certainly one of the more difficult to make a living from. The search for a photograph is demanding and very time consuming and nothing beats experience.

Whilst in Las Vegas we have the opportunity to visit the gallery of Peter Lik, arguably one of the most prolific landscape photographers of our time. Now there are some amazing landscapes out there to see if you look hard enough, digital photography has certainly made the skill more accessible.

To see inspirational imagery in the flesh is always very inspiring for me, the internet and books mostly sell the real stuff short but to see these images as the photographer intended can be great fun. I have to say that the way Peters’ images are displayed is nothing short of amazing and has given me ideas for presenting some of my own work.

Inspired I decided to make some landscapes of my own. These are not in the same league as his dedication to capturing the greatest of images is overwhelming and shows you what it takes to succeed in this, at times, fickle industry.

I don’t really do many landscapes but I would seriously like to rectify this if I can. Maybe 2013 will be a year for landscapes after all.

What limits?

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Traveling can be a lot of fun, it can be stressful and it can be tiring. How many times have you heard people say that they need a holiday to recover from the one they just returned to? Loads yes? A trip to Las Vegas though, what limits would you put on your activities? Now there is a question (although the thoughts going through your head now are yours).
We on the other hand had a few things we wanted to do, but not too much as we felt we wanted to keep calm and leave opportunity for spontaneity.

Things to do:

1. Meet old friends
2. Go to the wedding
3. Relax by the pool
4. See a show
5. Experience Vegas
6. Hire a convertible Mustang
7. Visit Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon
8. Have a good time

We planned to kill two birds with one stone and hire the Mustang and visit the Canyon and the Dam. Now the Dam is really only a 40 minute drive away but the Grand Canyon turned out to be a huge five our jaunt each way. We worked it out, that is like us driving all the way to Calais from Hannover for a sunset. Now in those terms it seems bonkers but it was all part of the experience and even after 16 hours on the road we had no regrets.

A very Las Vegas wedding!

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Ask any photographer, well nearly every one and they will tell you they are always tinkering. New ideas, new shots, new cameras or lenses, different venues. There is simply no shortage of things you can adjust.

Now before I go too far here, I was not the official photographer, and the chapel did not want any other photographs taken, so I was simply a guest (which was lovely). So this time I left the camera in the hotel room and took my iPad instead. I have been shooting a bit with the iPad this week anyway.

I have to say, these shots are a bit of fun and the iPad is not the best for taking photographs but with some snapseed action some of them came out quite well. So here is a selection.