October 2025 – Wanderlux Images

Summer was fairly busy with a few images journeys and a good quantity of extra journey to flee the warmth of the California desert. Those images journeys take many hours of planning, which I largely get pleasure from. Researching new potentialities, planning out timing for recognized places and coordinating journey are a part of the method. Look for bulletins of small group future workshops within the subsequent publication. The swamp images journey to Caddo Lake this in mid-November is my final at the moment scheduled journey. 

Below you can find a few journey experiences from this summer time and a bit on inventive images choices for vacationers and photographers.

ISSUE 40 – October 2025

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Trip Reports
• Intentional Camera Movement
• Featured Print
• Upcoming Travel

The Grand Canyon Monsoon journey in August was removed from a bust regardless of the shortage of storms and the devastating fires on the North Rim. We had been to remain a pair nights on the Grand Canyon Lodge which was destroyed. Contingency plans are a great factor. These included lengthy (as in very lengthy) 4×4 drives to Tatahatso Point and Toroweap in addition to a cease at Upper and Lower Antelope Canyon. The former requires a Navajo information. It was a deal with to have Cassie and Reuben of Jhani’s Tours take us to the Point, stick with us in a single day and put together our meals. We received up in the course of the evening to seize the Milky Way over this portion of Marble Canyon. simply above the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River. At Toroweap, you crawl throughout rocks to look 3000 toes down into the canyon. There aren’t any rails and most photographers are understandably nervous about this location. But the rewards are nice. As the chief, my job was to not seize nice photographs however to hold others from dying. I’ll quickly be including these photographs as updates to my e-books.

First Image – Tatahatso Night

Second Image – Toroweap Overlook (trying west)

Third Image – Flame (Upper Antelope Canyon)

 

We had improbable gentle and glorious timing on this journey, simply a few weeks in the past. Fall colour was excellent. There was distinctive gentle at Oxbow Bend (first picture beneath).  We witnessed no less than 5 geysers going off. Schwabacher’s Landing had glorious gentle each mornings we visited. The solely factor lacking was an early snowfall (and maybe a moose within the water!). You can see my take on this subject’s Featured Print. The geyser featured beneath went off for 5 minutes, rested and went off once more. Then time and again! Absolutely thoughts blowing! It was way more thrilling to us than Old Faithful. Because it sometimes goes off each 9 to fifteen hours, our timing was pure luck, however a nicely appreciated reward for our hike to the situation. And we had been amongst solely about ten witnesses to the efficiency.

There comes a time in a panorama photographer’s life the place creativity have to be discovered by transferring past the consolation zone. It is much too simple to fall right into a behavior of reviewing different photographer’s greatest photographs from a location then making an attempt to give you a superb model from that very same location. It is feasible to create extra emotionally stimulating photographs by… Read More…

This subject’s featured print is from Grand Tetons National Park. In the autumn there could also be as many as 50 photographers at every most well-liked location alongside this aspect stream to the Snake River. We even heard there was a fist struggle one morning between photographers who felt they owned their spots! We arrived earlier than daylight simply to get parking and stake out some most well-liked places for our tripods. My alternative was to incorporate the rocks within the riverbed to steadiness the jutting peaks.  

You can get pleasure from this or different quite a few images prints in your house. All it’s a must to do is contact me and we’ll make it occur.

If you occurred to catch the film, Caddo Lake, you noticed how actually stunning and generally eerie this hidden gem could be. This will likely be my fourth 12 months on the lake with our boat captain. This 12 months, we’re headquartered in a contemporary, tastefully designed home on the bayou that ought to attraction to all of the photographers, however particularly those that like a bit of luxurious combined in with down residence cooking and the bald cypress woods. Click the button beneath to learn testimonials and see outcomes achieved by earlier members. 

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Following the Caddo Lake workshop, Barbara and I’ll return to Texas for Thanksgiving with household earlier than heading to Columbia (South America) to go to my brother. There will likely be stops in Medellin and Panama City the place we’ll do our greatest to mix in with the locals.

The majority of my work is on my web site, but it surely will also be seen at a number of outdoors places. If you’re in search of one thing you do not see, ship me a observe. 

My juried work could be seen at  Desert Art Center in Palm Springs at Artists Council in Palm Desert. The galleries simply reopened for the season.

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