#looking ne

Trees Have Many Arms (Everglades National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr:

Timeless Adventures (Pinnacles National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the northeast while taking in views across eroded volcanic formations and hillsides present while walking the Prewett Point Trail in Pinnacles National Park. Given the height I was located and the open area below leading to the more distant hillsides and mountains, I decided to angle my Nikon SLR, camera slightly downward and create a sweeping view looking across this national park landscape. The other thing I had to keep in mind while composing this image was to meter it properly to capture an exposure of both the area that filled most of the lower portion of the image, caught in shadows, with that of the more distant hillsides and mountains caught in the glow of late afternoon sunlight. Composing the image was a matter of lining up the ridgeline coming off the High Peaks and the Balconies volcanic formation, in such a way that it kind of balanced with the canyon in the middle image left. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

A Connection to Our Wilder Selves (Katmai National Park & Preserve) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: I captured this image at the Falls Platform with a view looking to the northeast at Brooks Falls while observing a brown bear in Katmai National Park. The image is of a male brown bear on top of the Falls waiting for salmon to make the jump and attempt to catch it to eat. I pulled back on the focal length to capture more of the surrounding waterfall.

The Official Field Greeter to Katmai National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr:  this is chunk (bear 32.) he was the first bear seen when they turned on the  explore.org bear cams the other day at brooks falls in katmai. this pic was taken that day. I have been checking the cams constantly since they were turned on and was lucky enough to see chunk and I was surprised how fat he is already and how good he looks, bear force one ( 747 ) has also been seen in the last week before the cams were tuned on and reportedly looks great. the salmon have not yet begun to run so the bears are scarce so far but keep checking because once the salmon appear so will lots of bears and it will happen soon and quickly. I will post a link to the bear cams  ~ johnny