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Home Field Training
At first glance, it would seem that unless you’re a full-time adventure athlete, photographing action and adventure photography is something to which you'll have little opportunity to apply yourself....
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Grand Canyon Solo
Damn the sheep, damn the light, I was alone and I was trapped! I was 20 feet above a deep pool, having squeezed myself behind a truck-sized capstone in an effort to climb out of a canyon narrows....
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Moving Fast And Going Slow
Kananaskis River, Alberta, Cana It’s surprising how often we curse the complexity and expense of the new cameras and computers, but at the same time, demand more speed and efficiency. And this isn’t...
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Burnout
Skier Scott Miller in the Canadian Rockies This Article Features Photo Zoom All of us have those moments in photography where we face a creative block. The subject matter that we love and have always...
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Memories From Down Under
This Article Features Photo Zoom Travels to Mount Arapiles, Natimuk, Australia, with Melanie Bell, Kim Cousins and Nick Biggins. A long, long time ago, back in April 1985, a talented German rock...
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Assignment Vietnam
This Article Features Photo Zoom World-class climber Rolando Garibotti, Halong Bay, northeastern Vietnam The worst season to visit southeastern Asia, specifically if you want to explore and climb...
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What Moves You
This Article Features Photo Zoom Participants at the 2008 Moab MUni Fest unicycle festival in Utah. To what can we look to inspire our photographic style, and what are the benefits of knowing our...
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Adventure, Kiwi Style
This Article Features Photo Zoom Lovers’ Leap, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand As I write this, I’ve relocated and have been living for less than a week in my new home base on the South Island of New...
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Try A Photo Bike-Tour
This Article Features Photo Zoom A bike tour from Dunedin to TeAnau with Dawn Kish and Gavin Wilson (pictured), New Zealand. This issue’s column continues my discussion about adventure photography in...
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Antarctica
I recently attended a fund-raising event held by the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust. It’s working, among other things, to preserve Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition base, which is suffering from...
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Glacier Trekking
A beached chunk of glacier ice in the Jökulsarlon Lagoon, Iceland Stepping onto a glacier brings you to one of the more surreal landscapes one can visit on this planet. Viewed from a distance, a...
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The Land Of Oz
Bill Hatcher’s new Australian backyard is a far cry from the suburban sprawl we often encounter in the U.S. I’m writing this column at the start of yet another big adventure. I recently moved from my...
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Rephotography
A scientist ascends a mountain ash eucalyptus tree in Wallaby Creek, the Hume Plateau, near Melbourne, Australia. Using a Hasselblad XPan camera for its panorama format, Hatcher was positioned on a...
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In The Canyons
This Article Features Photo Zoom Kate Randall jumping into a pool of water. During a lifetime pursuit of photography, you’re bound to say, at least a thousand times, “I can shoot better than that” and...
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Get Airborne
Maria Island near Tasmania, Australia, from 1,500 feet. Nikon D3S, AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm ƒ/2.8G ED VR II at ISO 200, 1/1000 sec., ƒ/11 I’m not a pilot, but I love flying. Any flying device that can...
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Packrafting
Roman Dial running Class III rapids below Rafters Basin. Bill Hatcher took this image during a five-day packraft trip down the Franklin River from Donaghys Hill to Sir John Falls, Tasmania. When...
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Playing In The Rain
This Article Features Photo Zoom On the Huon River in Tasmania, Bill Hatcher didn't let a little rain get in the way of any photo opportunity. I get a kick out of shooting in the worst kinds of...
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Magic Light Anytime
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia. Using a PocketWizard to trigger his flash remotely, Bill Hatcher hit this cyclist with some light to punch up the colors. I think one of the most...
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Give POV A Try
A POV shot brings the viewer into the frame and makes for a dynamic shot. Just what is POV? The letters stand for "point of view," and it's a cinematic method that incorporates powerful editing and...
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Photo Fixie
Bill Hatcher took this photo of climber Ben Smith with a 24mm ƒ/1.4 prime lens. It's fast, sharp and svelte for action photography. Single-speed mountain bike riders, boulderers, prime lens users....
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Keeping It Real, Or Calling It Art
The Black Rapids Glacier in Alaska on the ride toward the Susitna Glacier, shot on 35mm film. Every photographer will have grappled with the question of how much to edit photos in the camera or later...
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Seeing The Color
Glow Worm Tunnel, Blue Mountains, Australia. Bill Hatcher manually set his DSLR's white balance to capture the effect of the green-filtered light. I've been wondering if there are any secondary...
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My Pocket Camera Adventure
This Article Features Photo Zoom Portage around the Kings Rapid on the Colo River in New South Wales, Australia, taken with the Sony Cyber-shot RX100. There's a revolution happening right now in the...
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Light Painting
Jordan Webster on the Agamemnon route of Mount Arapiles in Australia, illuminated by a Petzl headlamp. If I can name one thing in photography that really brings the kid out in me, it has to be light...
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Photo Hoarding
Editing doesn't mean only casting aside older photos. This image had certain attributes that made it high priority, and it has an important legacy, as well. The 1991 photo shows Todd Skinner, a...
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Rediscovering The Grand Canyon
The Isis Temple in the Grand Canyon as seen from Shiva Saddle. For Bill Hatcher, a major part of the allure of this photo was in the experience of getting to the spot from which he made it. Since...
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Almost Aerial Photography
Flowering saguaro cactus in the foothills of the Rincon Mountains in Saguaro National Park, Arizona, photographed from above with a Nikon D800 on a Manfrotto stand, Bescor pan-tilt head and CamRanger...
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The Journey To Cape Solitude
A hiker's view of the confluence of the Colorado River and the Little Colorado River from Cape Solitude in the eastern region of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. One afternoon and for most of a...
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A Day On The Job
This series of photos was taken one day while on a magazine assignment. Only one of these photos ended up being published in the article, but what’s interesting is that these images were the first of...
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Letting Science Direct My Camera
Botanist Wendy McBride collecting plant samples in the remote West Clear Creek Wilderness in southern Arizona. When I’m out photographing, I have my own particular way of seeing the world and let my...
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