@GaryHartPhoto

Nature photographer and writer.

 Northern California
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Joined March 2010
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Water, Water Everywhere garyhartblog.com/2023/05/15/…

Water, Water Everywhere

Spring Dogwood Bloom, Ribbon Fall and El Capitan, Yosemite Sony a7R V Sony 24-105 f/4 G ISO 400 f/16 1/125 second Photo Workshop Schedule Do you know the waterfall in Yosemite with the longest sing…

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Dogwood Days of Spring garyhartblog.com/2023/05/08/…

The Dogwood Days of Spring

In my first 14 years leading photo workshops, I never had to cancel a workshop. I have had to scramble a bit thanks to government shutdowns, hurricanes (really), closed roads, and power outages, bu…

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Image Building (the old fashioned way) garyhartblog.com/2023/05/01/…

Image Building (the old fashioned way)

Today it’s possible to open an app on your computer, type in a few descriptive terms, and faster than you can take a sip of coffee your very own beautiful image will appear. No frozen extremi…

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Tunnel Vision garyhartblog.com/2023/04/24/…

Tunnel Vision

For  everyone who woke up today thinking, “Gee, I sure wish there were more Yosemite pictures from Tunnel View,” you’ve come to the right place. Okay, seriously, the world probably doesn’t actually…

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Relationship Building garyhartblog.com/2023/04/17/…

Relationship Building

It’s all about relationships I write a lot about relationships in photography. Often I’m referring relationships with my subjects, which could mean gaining better understanding of a loc…

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Leveraging Light garyhartblog.com/2023/04/11/…

Leveraging Light

In last week’s post I wrote about the importance of distilling a scene to its essence. I suggested that the best way to achieve this is to eliminate all but the scene’s most essential e…

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Distilling the Essence garyhartblog.com/2023/04/02/…

Distilling the Essence

The art of subtraction Presented with a complex world, the nature photographer’s job is to identify a scene’s visually interesting elements and figure out how to use them in an image. W…

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Happy Photography garyhartblog.com/2023/03/29/…

Happy Photography

Sometimes I start a blog post with a very clear idea of what I want to say, and other times I have no idea what I want to say and just go where my mind takes me. I’ll let you decide which thi…

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Spring is a State of Mind garyhartblog.com/2023/03/20/…

Spring is a State of Mind

According to the calendar, today is the first day of spring—so…, Happy Spring! On the other hand, here in Northern California Mother Nature is delivering very mixed signals. A few trees are b…

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Perfect Timing garyhartblog.com/2023/03/14/…

Perfect Timing

In the Alabama Hills to photograph sunrise in neck-craning proximity to the Sierra Crest, I knew precisely what time, on this date, the sun’s first rays would color the towering granite, and …

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It’s All About the People garyhartblog.com/2023/03/06/…

It’s All About the People

As I’ve made abundantly clear in earlier blog posts, 2023 started with my busiest ever workshop stretch. But I’ve finally reached enough of a lull in my schedule to start processing the…

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You Had to Be There garyhartblog.com/2023/02/27/…

You Had to Be There

I was never one of those analog purists who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the digital world. Despite a pretty extensive and carefully curated album collection, I jumped into the CD r…

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Blessings garyhartblog.com/2023/02/20/…

Blessings

I just wrapped up what was no doubt the most intense work/travel stretch of my 17 years leading photo workshops. It started the second week of January with 3 weeks in Iceland leading 2 workshops wi…

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Bonus Blog Post: Horsetail Fall 2023 garyhartblog.com/2023/02/17/…

Bonus Blog Post: Horsetail Fall 2023

I returned last night from my Yosemite Horsetail Fall photo workshop and thought I’d briefly share my observations on this year’s experience (since so many people seem to be interested)…

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Distraction Subtraction garyhartblog.com/2023/02/14/…

Distraction Subtraction

Last week’s blog image was an ultra-wide scene chockfull of beauty, ranging from nearby frosted trees and shrubs, to a sky filled with sunset pink clouds, topped with a small dot of moon. It …

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Transcending the Trophy garyhartblog.com/2023/02/07/…

Transcending the Trophy

Wonderland, Golden Circle, Iceland Sony a7R V Sony 12-24 GM 1/40 second F/11 ISO 200 With Horsetail Fall season about to kick off, this week I’m thinking about “trophy shots.” (My defin…

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A River Runs Through It garyhartblog.com/2023/01/31/…

A River Runs Through It

Among the greatest joys of my photographer’s life is the opportunity to witness rare and exotic beauty I might otherwise have missed. An erupting volcano? Check. The dancing colors of the nor…

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Lights, Camera, Action! garyhartblog.com/2023/01/23/…

Lights, Camera, Action!

A couple of posts back I wrote about Nature’s gifts, natural phenomena that sometimes augment the ordinary enough to defy belief. In that post I cited reflections, relatively ubiquitous pheno…

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Upping Your Vertical Game garyhartblog.com/2023/01/16/…

Upping Your Vertical Game

Greetings from Iceland. Perhaps you noticed that this picture is in fact not Iceland, but that’s only because I simply haven’t had a chance to process my images from the past week. Ther…

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Playing the Cards You’re Dealt garyhartblog.com/2023/01/09/…

Playing the Cards You’re Dealt

In family hearts games when I was a kid, I loved to “shoot the moon” (tremendous reward for success, extreme cost for failure). But simply wanting to shoot the moon wasn’t enough to make it happen,…

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