New Photography Bootcamp Announced for this May in Wild and Wonderful West Virginia
After two very successful Photo Boot Camps in February, I have decided to offer a third workshop May 3-5. If you want to join us for this special event I encourage you to register now before it is too late, our last Bootcamps booked full in a matter of weeks! I’ve organized this workshop so that you can [...]
Back from South Florida
I just returned home from a week shooting wildlife and landscapes in South Florida. The trip went really well and I spent the entire week driving from one bid hotspot to the other, often only sleeping a few hours each night. I spent 90% of my time and energy shooting birds and only a [...]
Daily Inspiration: Out to Sea, Boneyard Beach, South Carolina
Todays Daily Inspiration is from Boneyard Beach in South Carolina. This location has become a favorite stomping ground of mine while leading workshops and shooting the South Carolina coast. Located about 45 minutes from Charleston on Edisto Island this stretch of barrier beach is loaded with dead trees. As the tide comes in it engulfs [...]
Daily Inspiration: First Light at Great Falls National Park
In addition to the normal posts we publish; i.e… trip reports, articles, thoughts, ect.., I will now be adding the Daily Inspiration to the blog. A single image a day, some new and some old, all meant to provide inspiration to the viewer and insight on the creative and technical aspects of photography. Sometimes I [...]
Waterfalls of Ricketts Glen State Park
I spent this weekend shooting waterfalls in Ricketts Gen State Park. The water flow was excellent after the recent rains last week and on Sunday i was lucky to have a little rain and mostly overcast skies all day long. I hit the trail at 7am and spent all day hiking the entire circuit and [...]
Springtime in West Virginia
My favorite thing about shooting in West Virginia is the lack of people and more importantly the lack of photographers. I feel almost bad for folks who live out west. I mean not too bad! They have drop dead scenery and huge areas of wilderness just waiting to be explored, but there are far too [...]
Botany Bay Sunset, Edisto Island, SC
I am back from eight days shooting the low country spring in and around Charleston, South Carolina. At least I was planning on shooting spring, but Mother Nature had other plans, as she always seems to have. The spring blooms had all but dropped except for the Azaleas along Oak Lane in Magnolia Plantation which [...]
A Morning at Brookside Gardens
I spent this morning shooting abstractions and macro wildflowers (mostly Tulips) at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD. The gardens at Brookside are a great place to hone your macro shooting skills as well as develop a body of work to add to your portfolio. In fact, most areas of the country have some really great [...]
New eBook, West Virginia: Adventures in Light
I am excited to announce my fourth eBook, West Virginia: Adventures in Light. West Virginia holds a secret! Its mountains offer up some of the most beautiful landscapes in the United States. From the rugged and windswept plateau of Dolly Sods to the roaring waterfalls of Blackwater Falls State Park, the Appalachian and Allegheny chain [...]
Introducing Alex Mody, Newest Member of the Impressions of Nature Blog Team
Hello everybody, my name is Alex Mody. I am an avid nature photographer and college student currently living in Olympia, Washington. When Joe asked me to participate as a blogger here, I was happy to say yes. He has been a great friend and mentor to me, and I am very excited to be a [...]
Behind the Falls, Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia
Last spring I had the chance to visit a little known waterfall in West Virginia. I have been down to this location twice before, but the conditions were never right and thus I was unsuccessful in capturing a compelling shot. This waterfall and a series of several others are in Blackwater Falls State Park in [...]
Florida’s Wild Palm Coast (Joseph Rossbach)
Well it’s not actually all that wild compared to the Everglades or Big Cypress, but how wild can anyplace really be when there are multi-million dollar homes, all night gas stations and beach front high rises only ten minutes walk from this location. Either way, my visit to Washington Oaks Garden State Park this morning [...]
