Rory W Photography Blog

Winner of Doug Chinnery’s “Best Photo of 2009″ Competition

One of my favorite images, Patterns of Nature, has one another competition (it’s first win was the sweepstakes prize at the 2009 Weber County Fair). It was chosen as the 1st place winner of Doug Chinnery’s “Best Photo of 2009″ Competition. I was honored to be chosen from among a great group of competitors. Here’s what Doug said about the image:

“This image really moved us. It stood out as very different from most images entered by its focus on an intimate landscape. We loved the beautiful colours and strong use of the vertical white trunks of the Silver Birches contrasted against the fresh green of the foliage in the undergrowth, made perfect by the Dandelion heads breaking up the spread of green. This image was made with a keen eye for detail, great exposure control and compositional skills – an image to be proud of. I would love to see a large version of the image.“

Aspen Forest

Canon 40D | 17-40mm f/4L | 1/6 sec | f/11 | ISO 100

This is one of the many (hopefully not <i>too</i> many) autumn shots from this year. The colors, at least around where I live, have more or less come and gone, which finally gave me a little time process and finalize most of my images. I took over 1,000 autumn shots over the last month, and I managed to cut that down to a mere 329 images now. I’ve got a lot of favorites, so I’ve still got a lot of cutting down to do…

Anyway, this shot was just taken a few days ago at the very top of Monte Cristo. I had to hike a bit, but it was totally worth it.

Reaching for the Light

Canon 40D | 17-40mm f/4L | 2 sec | f/22

On the path up to the Oregon coast, the Redwoods were a necessary stop along the way. On the southern end of Redwood National Park is a trail to a waterfall called Trillium Falls. We got lost along the way, and never made it to the falls, but that’s ok. The scenery was still incredible.