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Have you ever looked at travel magazines, photography books or even the travel section of your favorite newspaper and were amazed by the spectacular scenic photographs? Doesn’t it inspire you to pack your gear and get out there in the wilderness and take in all that beauty and to shoot your own photographs? It inspires me! My wife and I have traveled to many of California’s State Parks and several local National Parks looking for those spectacular scenes that someone else has photographed. But we can’t seem to find them. I don’t know if we were just in the wrong part of the parks or the photographs had been enhanced to a point where we wouldn’t recognized the real location even if we were standing right in front of it. It is amazing how the new cameras and editing softwares can enhance images. You can clone out a tree, add some clouds, change the color of grass, lighten a dark shadow and so on and so on. I guess it’s a good thing my wife and I like to hike. We will keep searching for those spectacular sceneries and photograph them as Mother Nature presents herself with as little enhancement as possible.
My wife, Carolyn, and I are going to Pinnacles National Monument in a couple of weeks to hike and capture images. This will be our first trip to Pinnacles, which is just below Salinas, California off highway 101. We are still searching for those scenic images.
