No matter the photographic subject, searching for different ways to looking at any given place or thing, is a good way to have files that are rich and full. Step by step through the years, I learned to see everything in as many ways as possible.

Below we have The Maroon Bells of the Colorado Rockies.

This location is much photographed, and because we are hemmed in from mountains on the sides, there is only so many ways to compose a photograph.
Still, small differences can mean a lot.

The three photos below were made in early morning golden mountain light.

This first image is a clean and elegant look at the subject. A common but pretty view.

By moving a few feet in one direction, I was able to include a rock and a few flowers. They create an altered perception with more places for our eyes to both wander, and rest.

This location is virtually never photographed vertically. So that’s what I did.

This increases the possible ways images of this location can be used in the future.

As most of you know, I love photographing western rock forms. Especially doing so early or late in the day.

The rich colors of the late afternoon light in the Badlands, “painted” a picture for me to photograph. God’s handiwork! Viewing something that is literal as if it were a painting, opens up possibilities.

Just because the sun goes down, does not mean that we need to stop creating images. I exposed for those colorful clouds which in tern turned the rock forms into a black silhouette. They of course were recorded only as shapes without details. Just what I was after.

Sometimes less is more.

Not only landscapes need variety.

The Osprey below were photographed a short time after sunrise and were painted in the warm tones of the early morning.

Many photographers do not want images like this, because of the warm light. It might be said, they don’t look like Osprey. I disagree, they look exactly what an Osprey looks like when bathed in that lightl.

Once again, it is good to get some variety of action or behavior.

Mountains lakes, Osprey, now Bald Eagles. Variety is spicy.

From a bird posing in a tree, to one fishing over a river, to action over the snow, variety wins again,

Wading birds such as this great Egret, always give us lots of poses. Looking left, looking right. Once again, variety is good.

I know for many, the numbered neck collar placed on this Trumpeter Swan by the DNR, ruins the shot.

Everything a nature photographer does, need not be action or for that matter, art. There are markets that need identifiable number tags on wildlife for the stories that are written about various species.

I could not find in my “messy” files, another image of this specific bird below. I wish I had made a bigger variety of photos. You can’t have enough.

Do it all. Art, action, information, and/or behavior. Expanding your photographic themes will bring you new markets to sell your images, or to share with friends. There are no limits.

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2nd Timothy Chapter 2

Verse 12
If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He will also deny us.

2nd Timothy Chapter 3

Verse 2
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.

Psalms 34

Verse 4
I sought the Lord and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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It’s easy to act religious or “play church“. Hundreds of millions of people do that all the time. It’s harder however to remain faithful when things are not going as we might wish. That can happen to anyone, certainly including me.

Those who do not believe in the Creator God, love to claim that people like me operate only on emotion. To me, religion, including the only truly God born religion, Christianity, was for me a purely intellectual exercise to begin with. The emotion, which surely exisits now, developed as I got to know God.

Listen to or read behind those who construct a Godless universe, and explore their beiiefs of amebas which transform into primitive animals and eventualy humans.

Their passion, anger, and even hatred comes from an emotional response to those beliefs, not a science born or intellectual one.

They are the ones who allow emotions to own them.

God at times may seem beyond our comprehension. He is watching and guiding us and if we will accept who He is, He will educate us as to the whys and when’s.

Next time I may deal with one of the least written about Christian subjects ever, is Salvation always permanent, or can we lose it?

God Bless,
Wayne