Posted on May 30, 2025, 12:32 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/landscape-from-the-bottom-highlights-of-a-grand-canyon-by-raft-photo-expedition Part 2 of 3: 1 | 2 | To be continued Anyone peering into the Grand Canyon for the first time is struck by two immediate, shocking facts: it comes without warning, and it is absolute. There is no soft transition, no gentle slope that prepares you. One moment you’re on the rim, the […]
Posted on May 23, 2025, 5:17 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/living-the-grand-canyon Part 1 of 3: 1 | 2 | To be continued On a photography expedition such as the one I co-led from May 1 to May 11 this year, participants come to capture the Grand Canyon’s awe-inspiring landscape and spend ten days immersed in its depths. But the Grand Canyon, like other national parks, […]
Posted on February 27, 2025, 11:57 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/two-arches-in-joshua-tree-national-park Natural rock arches are rare in California’s deserts compared to places like Utah because of differences in geology and climate. Most natural arches form in soft sandstone, but California’s desert regions have mostly harder granite, metamorphic, or volcanic rocks. Freeze-thaw cycles and sustained water flows are less frequent than on the Colorado Plateau. Yet […]
Posted on January 28, 2025, 5:20 pm, by QT Luong, under
Announcements.
http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/coyote-creek-trail-project After spending a quarter-century photographing the vast, iconic landscapes of America’s national parks, I turned my attention to the landscapes of my own city, San Jose, California. This shift in my practice mirrors an evolution in environmental thought: from conserving distant wilderness to embracing an inclusive ecology that acknowledges the complex, intertwined relationship between […]
Posted on December 28, 2024, 4:29 pm, by QT Luong, under
Esthetics.
http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/landscape-photography-1989-2024 In this narrative, I draw a parallel between the development of my landscape photography work over more than three decades and my view of the historic evolution of landscape photography and environmental thought. I Growing up in France, I did not experience natural, raw landscapes solely shaped by primordial forces of nature until I […]
Posted on October 31, 2024, 5:09 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/wildlife-along-the-trail “Landscape without wildlife is just scenery” is a quote used by Kris Tompkins, the subject of the inspirational Wild Life (2023) movie, to discuss the world’s largest rewilding project that she and Doug Tompkins initiated in Patagonia. It would appear that the ribbon of land along suburban Coyote Creek Trail isn’t doing too badly […]
Posted on September 30, 2024, 7:08 pm, by QT Luong, under
Recollections.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/autumn-in-new-england The first time I had flown somewhere just for the purpose of photography was when I traveled to New England in the fall of 1996. Beyond the pastoral scenes, the revelation of the fall foliage there turned out to be the starting point for my updated approaches to time and scale. Back then, since […]
Posted on August 7, 2024, 11:26 am, by QT Luong, under
Techniques.
http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/under-over-water-split-shots-challenges-and-solutions Under-over split shots are some of the most technically difficult photographs I have attempted. In this piece, I review the challenges and solutions behind my latest attempt on Ofu Island in American Samoa, including even an instructive experiment with AI. If you are curious about everything that goes on behind those types of photographs […]
Posted on June 29, 2024, 6:46 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/coconut-crab-hunting Going for a walk in the forest at night and in the rain may sound like a strange activity. However, joining a coconut crab hunt turned out to be an unexpected highlight of my stay in Ofu. Throughout our second day on Ofu Island, the storm did not relent much. Between the episodes of […]
Posted on June 21, 2024, 10:54 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/a-week-on-ofu-island-setbacks-in-paradise Summary: a personal account of a week on Ofu Island in the National Park of American Samoa during which carefully-laid plans were thwarted by a combination of weather, equipment failures, and transportation issues threatening to leave us stranded in the South Pacific. My friend Tommy travels without plans or expectations. This approach, increasingly popular […]
