Tag: ‘stebbins’
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
So this is the last post on Stebbin’s Gulch. Thanks for putting up with it! 
These were all taken with my 5dmkII and a 20mm or 100mm Macro lens. While the last posts were about shooting film and waiting to see what I would get after developing it. I was really interested in looking for the finer details in Stebbin’s and that’s why so many of these are macro shots. I’ve been there before with wider lenses and I’ve captured the landscapes shots. This was my first time in with a macro lens and I wanted to take the opportunity to get a fresh angle on things.
That’s it! I have to pick a dozen or so of these shots to have critiqued by Ian next week. Have any favorites from this series of posts that you think I should include?
Tags: arboretum, art, gulch, holden, ice, macro, snow, stebbins, winter
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
So last post was about hiking into Stebbin’s Gulch just around the time World War II was starting. This time around the technology is a little close to the end of the 80′s – valley girls and mullets. I shot the following pictures with a Canon AE-1. This is the camera I first got into photography with. Well, not this AE-1, that camera is long gone, but it’s the same model. It’s another camera I like shooting, but I found my eye is lazy and I just don’t manual focus like a used to. It amazes me that I used to shoot football and soccer with a manual focus camera. I can barely shoot my kids standing still and nail the focus today if I have to rely on myself to do it.
This was the final shot in the last post. I’m standing in the exact same spot – just different camera, lens and film.
Next post will bring us back to the current age of digital SLRs and color photography! I promise!
Tags: arboretum, black, canon ae-1, film, gulch, holden, ice, stebbins, white, winter
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
A stream that feeds into Stebbins Gulch is frozen for the winter.
Below you can a see a fellow photographer shooting back up the main waterfall. The shot gives you an idea of just how massive the ice formations in the gulch can become if the conditions are right.
Tags: arboretum, gulch, holden, stebbins, winter
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
A sliver of black in the snow cover is the only indication that water runs here in warming times. This is below the falls in Stebbins Gulch. A unique geological area located on property owned by the Holden Arboretum.
More of this series can be seen in the Fine Art section of the main site or by clicking HERE
As always, prints of any image posted in the blog is for sale.
Tags: arboretum, gulch, holden, stebbins, winter
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
This weekend I had the privilege to hike into a somewhat remote area of the Holden Arboretrum with professional photographer, Ian Adams (who just happened to have photographed a book for the place).
There is no trail at the bottom of the gulch so we walked through ankle deep, and in places deeper freezing water carrying all our gear. The steep walls of the gulch don’t allow for anyplace but the creek bed to walk in.
Tags: arboretum, gulch, holden, ice, snow, stebbins, winter
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