My 5 Best Photos From 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1rHc8rW7Bs&t=21s 2020! At times, it seemed like it would never end, but here we are, we’ve made it to the end, Holy cow. And it’s on to brighter days. God, I hope so. Anyway, like I do every year around this time, I recently took a look back at my previous 12 months of shooting […]

Composition: A simple, story-based approach to effective landscape photos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqp2iNRg-Sw Here’s a question for you. How do you tell truly captivating stories with your landscape photography stories that tell your viewers what you want them to know about a place I’d like you to ponder that for a minute? Because it seems to me that when you scroll through social media, these days, the […]

How to Photograph the Full Moon: 4 Tips for Epic Shots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX80l7rcMDQ&t=507s Oh, my God, look at the moon tonight! That is unbelievably beautiful! I’m going to take the best moon picture anybody has ever seen. That sucks. Hello my excellent friends. It’s Josh Cripps here. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time, you know that the full moon is one of my […]

4 Fantastic Features in Lightroom You NEED To Be Using

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjH4IOGpJxI&t=942s Hello my excellent friends! It’s Josh Cripps here. Now I like many of you use the Adobe suite to edit my photos. And in particular, I spend a lot of time in Lightroom. And today I want to share with you four fantastic features that I love about the program that I think you […]

Spontaneity

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Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken On the Darwin Bench, Kings Canyon National Park, California, on June 27th, 2020. The plan was to hike the full 51-mile North Lake to South Lake loop in four days. But after two days and 27 miles my friend, Ryan, and I were […]

Gradient

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Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken at South Tufa, Mono Lake, California, on June 1st, 2020. I’ve been fortunate to see many spectacular moments of light at Mono Lake. But what was special about this particular night was the way the warm tones in the west transitioned so beautiful […]

Happy Bear-thday

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Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken in the Bear Lakes Basin in the High Sierra, on September 2nd, 2020. The Bear Lakes Basin is not an easy place to get to. Whether you approach from the east, west, north, or south, you are in for a serious amount of […]

Dwarfed

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Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: Taken in the Alabama Hills, California, on January 26th, 2020. From the Alabama Hills you can see six of California’s tallest mountains, each over 14,000′ high. However, the view is dominated by a smaller summit known as Lone Pine Peak. Thanks to its proximity […]

Lightroom: 4 Features You NEED To Be Using

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjH4IOGpJxI&t=942s Hello my excellent friends! It’s Josh Cripps here. Now I like many of you use the Adobe Suite to edit my photos. And in particular, I spend a lot of time in Lightroom. And today I want to share with you four fantastic features that I love about the program that I think you […]

The Endless Dance

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Read The Story Buy A Print The Story Behind This Photograph: In the moment I was creating this photo, all I could think about was making sure I had the right focus, exposure, and composition. But in the days since then I’ve had time to reflect a bit more on the unbelievable age of these […]

The Most Underrated Skill In Landscape Photography: SCOUTING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_bu8CuwM6g If I could recommend one thing to you that would make the biggest difference in your landscape photography. It wouldn’t be to buy a new camera or get a spiffy lens or learn the latest Photoshop techniques. It would simply be this, get outside more. Excellent friends, Josh Cripps here, you know, I have […]

4 Tips For Kickass Telephoto Landscape Photos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyL0B-AUFmM&t=1s Hey. So as you can see, I’ve got a bunch of lenses lined up here on my desk. And if you had to guess, which one of these would you think is my personal favorite for landscape photography? Now you might be tempted to say that it’s the 14 millimeter ultra wide angle. This […]

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