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A lovely evening for a row
June 17, 2025 - This group of kayakers is enjoying an evening row across Yellowstone Lake in the same national park. This Lake is a hub...
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Location profile: Redwoods National and State Parks
June 05, 2025 - Text and photos by Heather Cline
The Redwood National and State Parks form a network of protected lands, encompassing o...
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Mini Maui travel and photo guide
October 12, 2022 - The island of Maui is beautiful. Between the scenic beaches, waterfalls, plant, and wildlife, it is a photographer's del...
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Location Profile: Lassen National Park
October 25, 2021 - Location Profile: Lassen National Park Text and photos by Heather Cline
Lassen Volcanic National Park features steaming...
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Yosemite grand tour
January 18, 2021 - "Y" is for Yosemite
If you have never been to Yosemite, or are just looking for when and where to go for the best photo...
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Underrated locations
December 21, 2020 - "U" stands for underrated.
There are the locations that get all the attention, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon......
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Finding Quiet in the world of Nature Photography
November 23, 2020 - "Q" is for Quiet.
The year of 2020 certainly has created many opportunities for solitude, but I'm not sure you could sa...
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Americas National Parks
November 02, 2020 - "N" is for National Parks. For me - there was no other choice for "N".
I love National Parks and have a goal of visitin...
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Photographing the Milky Way
October 26, 2020 - "M" is for Milky Way. Not the candy bar, but we are close enough to Halloween, I wouldn't blame you for going there... A...
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Key Light
October 12, 2020 - "K" is for Key Light.
The key light is the first and typically most important light a photographer will use to light th...
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Hiking and Nature Photography
September 21, 2020 - "H" is for Hiking!
It pays to enjoy hiking if you are a nature photographer because your feet will get you to a lot mor...
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Arches rock!
September 04, 2018 - Arches rock! Get it? Yeah, I know I am a dork.
I have mentioned this in previous blogs, but there are certain natural a...
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One shot five ways: pulling more images out of a subject
May 07, 2018 - I stumbled across this juniper tree 8 years ago while visiting Joshua Tree National Park for the first time. I was immed...
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High Dynamic Range
September 19, 2017 - High Dynamic Range
Text and photos by Heather Cline
Let's pretend you walk up on a sweet landscape, pull out your came...
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Lesser known Yosemite
May 24, 2017 - This blog post will be light on words.
I have been to Yosemite many times and photographed the iconic subjects over and...
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Tripping on the cheap
May 01, 2017 - I don’t usually write my trip reports like this one but I thought it might be interesting to share what my typical photo...
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Compositional rules to improve your photos
December 29, 2016 - The modern camera equipment will do a lot for you. It will choose exposure, depth of field, shutter speed, white balance...
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Fun with a fish eye lens
November 13, 2016 - I had a fish eye lens years ago but had to sell it when I replaced my APS (cropped sensor) camera with a full frame sens...
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Chasing lights: a mild obsession photographing car lights
September 05, 2016 - I have a mild obsession with car lights right now. I am fascinated with how I can incorporate them into my compositions...
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2016 Perseids Meteor shower in Yosemite National Park
August 23, 2016 - I had one goal for this trip: manufacture one good shot of the Perseids Meteor shower. Anything else I got beyond that w...
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Using the sun burst effect to create dramatic photos
July 27, 2016 - Star effects in photography go by various names including: Sun stars, Star bursts, and Sun bursts. I tend to lean toward...
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Ten outstanding reasons to catch the next sunrise
July 05, 2016 - 1. You get to see colors like this.
You've got to love mother nature. She creates all these cool colors - every freakin...
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Death Valley Adventure
December 25, 2015 - My latest trip was to Death Valley. I planned this trip to photograph the Geminids Meteor Shower. I made my first attemp...
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