Posts Tagged ‘photography’
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 […]
Posted on May 25, 2024, 9:45 am, by QT Luong, under
Esthetics.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/landscapes-where-i-live-monochrome-vs-color After chasing the light and seasons in national parks across the country, a few months ago I released the first installment of a new body of work: twenty-five landscape photographs made where I live, which means in public lands within half an hour from home. This follow-up presents twenty-five more monochrome images from that […]
Posted on May 12, 2024, 11:47 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/caddo-lake-a-quick-guide-to-photography The most emblematic landscape of the American South is the flooded forests growing out of the water. One of them have recently emerged as one of the premier destinations for nature landscape photography. Two telltale signs are the number of photo workshops that frequent them, and the busloads of Chinese photographers who descend in […]
Posted on April 18, 2024, 2:29 pm, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/focus-on-the-solar-eclipse-of-april-8-2024 Since the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, would be the last in America until 2044, my main motivation was to witness the event as a family. This called for a different approach than the one I took for the eclipse of 2017. I had traveled with my younger in-laws to Grand Teton […]
Posted on March 24, 2024, 9:37 pm, by QT Luong, under
Announcements.
Imagine standing next to the ancient Nankoweap Granaries, perched 500 feet above the majestic Colorado River. From this vantage point, the Grand Canyon reveals itself in all its splendor—a testament to the power of nature. As you gaze down at the fast waters below, framed by towering cliffs that have stood for millennia, you’re filled […]
Posted on March 14, 2024, 3:04 pm, by QT Luong, under
Esthetics.
In 2015, the China Photographic Publishing House released the book Landscape Photography – American Master Photographers on Their Art, featuring the work of nine American photographers (in order of appearance): Art Wolfe, Charles Cramer, David Muench, Clyde Butcher, QT Luong, Tom Till, Tom Murphy, Elizabeth Carmel, and Ian Plant. Since it was about studying how […]
Posted on February 29, 2024, 12:05 pm, by QT Luong, under
Gear.
My tripod survey mentioned that the quest for the ultimate tripod was still ongoing. I convinced myself that my next general-purpose tripod could be, finally, the last one I bought. With that in mind, I removed the budget as a consideration and set up to look for the perfect tripod. Read on to see which […]
Posted on February 21, 2024, 7:33 pm, by QT Luong, under
Esthetics.
At last, I am releasing a body of work featuring landscape photographs made where I live, which means within half an hour from home. And if that wasn’t enough of a change in the practice of someone known for large-format photography of national parks and other public lands all around the country – itself a […]
Posted on December 26, 2023, 4:46 pm, by QT Luong, under
Techniques.
I wrap up my Alaska autumn write-ups with a set of images that I made quickly from the air or from the road while traveling from one park destination to another, together with a few tips for photographing that way. For various reasons, I had focused – again – on national parks. The 8 national […]
