Neal Pritchard Landscape Photography - Fine Art Landscape Photography, Landscape Photography Prints » Photos http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog Neal Pritchard is an International award-winning landscape photographer with a stunning collection landscape photography from around Australia and the USA. His landscape galleries feature breathtaking landscape prints for sale through an easy to use secure shopping cart. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:18:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Christmas Orders and Delivery http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/12/christmas-orders-and-delivery/ http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/12/christmas-orders-and-delivery/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:06:21 +0000 Neal Pritchard http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/?p=621 Just a quick note I am very thankful to all those that are placing orders for my photography prints over the last few weeks. Local and overseas demand has outstripped that of this time last year and I have been kept busy.

To those thinking about placing an order please do so before the 9th December so I can have your order printed and in the mail before Christmas … Orders placed after the 9th December may not be mail to you before Christmas … And remember all Facebook Orders get 15% discount just mention “Facebook15″ for the season sale price

 



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This was taken one evening on the way back from visiting a few waterfalls during the day and while the days shooting was not very good due to poor light, the evening was more of a success … A sunset overlooking the Australian Bush looking over towards the Pacific Ocean …

*** Without the borders and image title  … Gold Coast Sunset ***

 

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Here is something I took almost a year ago down in Esperance … Have a good weekend folks …

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]]> http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/09/paynes-find/feed/ 5 West Australian Wildflowers http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/08/west-australian-wildflowers/ http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/08/west-australian-wildflowers/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:34:11 +0000 Neal Pritchard http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/?p=439 Well it is that time of year although when the outback of Western Australia comes alive with the colours of our wildflowers. Although very brief before our scoring summer sun takes over the wild flower season brings visitors both local, interstate and from around the the world. This passed weekend I ventured out for a couple of nights with fellow photographer Mark Stothard to see if we could capture some colour. One of the first images I have so far ready is this image of the morning light bring out the amazing colours of pale yellow and pink wild flowers just off the side of the great Northern Hwy near Paynes Find. I am not sure the names of the wildflowers we saw other than they are all WA wildflower everlastings and when in full bloom is quite a sight to see in the Western Australian bush.

]]> http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/08/west-australian-wildflowers/feed/ 4 Yallingup Reef http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/07/yallingup-reef/ http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/07/yallingup-reef/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:45:14 +0000 Neal Pritchard http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/?p=432 Spent the weekend down south around Dunsborough and met up with mr Mark “True North” Stothard for a shoot Saturday evening and again on Sunday morning … Well we will not talk about Sunday morning as the light was some of the worst there could have been. But saturday night was a little different. What promised to be an inspiring sunset ended up being good without being spectacular.

I have always liked the art by Michael R Nelson and I remember seeing his work for the first time round 1988 on my first trip to Hawaii.  It was always a trip to see his paintings of marine life and the landscape in the same frame from water level, with the colors where so rich. While I was scoring over the tidal pools at Yallingup looking for a composition or two, his work came to mind, which lead me to look more at what was just a few feet from me and to see if I could use that with the sky … So I guess this australian landscape photography is inspired by a hawaiian painter  …

It is always fun and exhilarating to get out there and challenge what you want to see but end up seeing as the light and conditions change, with the result sometimes and appreciation of the time spent not fully apparent till well after the time has passed …

 

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First up is a shot taken a week or so ago spending the night up at some dunes with Mark Stohard. An interesting shoot as we shot both dusk and dawn to very different colours and conditions. With the aftermath of a heavy storm on the friday night it was somewhat calm and still at the dunes. This image is a series of images blended together for colour and resolution. Having produced a few square images in the last 12 months and as I see them printed and framed I become more and more inclined to produce more.

I recently printed, framed and sold a square image from Esperance. After final inspection before delivery to the client I found myself standing back and thinking wow, thats mine and its square what is going on ? …. The final print was a image taken of Lucky Bay Esperance. An image not to dissimilar from this dune shot in tone and simplicity, so I can see myself looking more and more for opportunities to produce square landscape prints

]]> http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/07/sand-dunes-western-australia/feed/ 6 Working within Black & White Tones http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/05/working-within-black-white-tones/ http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/2011/05/working-within-black-white-tones/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 04:29:46 +0000 Neal Pritchard http://www.spoolphotography.com/blog/?p=372 As some may know I am a big admirer of good quality Black & White landscape photography and recently I have not produced much in the way of new black and white images, one being the landscapes have to lend themselves that way and I have not really been in the right locations to produce this, and secondly I have been working towards trying to improve through tone my black and white images. For me black and white photography is less about the absolute black and white and more about achieving tones within the zones more specifically zones 2 and 9 ( zone 2 black with hint of detail – zone 9 nearly white ) ….

Here is my latest attempt and trying the pull the viewer into the forest  … I called it forever because hopefully these California Redwoods will be around forever ….

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This landscape print Merced River Yosemite National Park, taken around 18 months ago inside Yosemite National Park is just one of those images. I never added it to the old site and now that I am happy with the way this new revamped site works and functions, it was definitely time to add it to the “Open Edition” USA Horizontal Pano section. Taken on my last morning while I hiked the banks of the Merced River looking for some abstract shots to shoot … I did manage to shoot one abstract as well this morning which can be seen at http://www.spoolphotography.com/open-edition/usa_1/merced-river-yosemite-national-park/

 

Along the banks of the Merced River, Yosemite National Park


 

 

 

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