The Mountains Whisper: Two Photo Ideas From North Carolina
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. I’ve now returned to Ohio from a month living and photographing in Western North Carolina. Over the past few weeks I received many requests for more details on several topics I wrote about in...
The Mountains Whisper: Showing Viewers What You See
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau (American Poet & Philosopher, 1817-1862) Western North Carolina is home to countless landscape settings filled with sweeping mountain...
The Mountains Whisper: A Grateful Thanks
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” ~ Meister Eckhardt (German Philosopher, 1260-1327) While my work is about photographing the land, it’s often...
The Mountains Whisper: The Beauty of Water (Slide Show)
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson (French photographer, 1908-2004) I’ve spent...
The Mountains Whisper: Honoring History With Black & White (Slide Show)
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.” ~ Mathew Brady (Father of Photojournalism, 1823-1896)...
The Mountains Whisper: The Magic Found in Patience
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. Last year at Badlands National Park an elderly gentleman named William shared some thoughts with me about park visitors he’s met over his 75 years of living in the area. There’s great wisdom in...
The Mountains Whisper: A Tapestry of Light (Time-Lapse)
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” ~ Ansel Adams (Landscape photographer, 1902-1984) Last week I showed an example of how a standard digital camera can be used to...
The Mountains Whisper: 24-Hour Photo Diary
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the common- place unusual.” ~ Edward Weston (American Photographer, 1886-1958) During the public talks I give...
The Mountains Whisper: Plants, Animals and Slide Show #2
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “I didn’t want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.” ~ Wynn Bullock (American Master Photographer, 1902-1975)...
The Mountains Whisper: A Hint of Winter & Slide Show
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” ~ Aaron Siskind The weather...
The Mountains Whisper: Conveying a Sense of Time
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “To photograph truthfully is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live in all things.” – Ansel Adams (landscape photographer, 1902-1984) Time is an element in each...
The Mountains Whisper: The Colors of Fall
This post is part of a series from Rick Braveheart. our wonderful resident photographer. Please see more of his work here. “Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~ George Eliot For me, I have always felt...