Joshua Cripps’ Photo Blog

To celebrate the New Year, I’m holding a print sale at my online store.  15% off all mounted, canvas, and fine art prints.  Prices at the store already contain the discount.  Sale ends January 15th.

http://www.joshuacripps.com/zencart/store/

As 2009 winds its way down, I’ve caught myself reflecting on the successes and failures, and the adventures and mishaps of the past year.  For me 2009 was a year of great change, growth, and opportunity.  I got to visit places I can hardly believe exist, and I got to do things I never imagined I would.  But out of all the memorable moments of the last 12 months, a few things burn most brightly in my memory.  I couldn’t keep the list to just ten, so without further ado, here are my Top 12 Experiences of 2009:

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Boy, you gotta love a place where you can go shooting over and over and over again, and always come home with something different.  Seeing promise of a good sunset tonight I hustled down to Panther Beach.  I was a little later than I wanted to be and I saw the sunset starting to turn even as I was searching for a place to shoot.  I kept heading south, trying out compositions and not really liking what I had.  Frantically, and with much cursing because the sky was getting more and more beautiful, I kept searching and finally found this spot.  I tinkered with a few compositions and finally said to myself: Ok, this is it for better or worse!  I think it turned out for the better and is now one of my new personal favorites.  Expect to see this one printed large at my next art show.

Oh, and regarding the title, if you look at the full-size version, you can find a seagull and a sailboat in the picture.  I love all the little hidden details you can capture in a photo.

~Josh

p.s. after the sunset faded I went exploring and found some really neat places to shoot in the future, so be on the lookout for more photos from this great beach!

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Lately I’ve been pondering the need to push my photography to the next level; to get more unique shots by pushing myself farther out there.  I’ve been wanting to get some truly special shots and have been thinking about pushing myself to go out in more challenging, or even dangerous, conditions as a means to that end.

This past week I began to meet this goal: I went out to the beach two nights to shoot the sunset, and both nights I nearly bit it big time when I got swamped by rogue waves.

Click on through to hear how I survived and see the photos I came away with as a reward.

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