Notes from photographing Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus and supercell storms in Tornado Alley.
What high altitude does to camera gear, why I still carry a heavy DSLR to nearly 7,000 meters, and why most of the photographs I brought back are not summit views.
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A supercell is a thunderstorm with a rotating updraft. How to pick out the updraft, wall cloud, anvil and rain shafts in photographs from Oklahoma and the Great Plains.
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The dunes of Sossusvlei are best in the first and last hour of light, when one side glows and the other is in shadow. How the place works, with my photographs from it.
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Waterfalls, black sand, glacier ice, the highlands and the northern lights. The places behind my 33 Iceland photographs, and what each one is like to photograph.
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In Chinese landscape painting, shan shui, people are tiny marks inside huge mountains and water. How that tradition shapes where I put a person in a photograph.
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