Jess Lee's Photo Adventures http://www.jessleephotos.com/blog Adventures of a working photographer, Enjoy the ride Thu, 28 May 2009 02:48:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 A little bit of Paradise http://www.jessleephotos.com/blog/2009/05/27/a-little-bit-of-paradise/ http://www.jessleephotos.com/blog/2009/05/27/a-little-bit-of-paradise/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 02:46:40 +0000 Jess http://www.jessleephotos.com/blog/?p=273
Grizly Cubs
Grizzly Cubs

For all of you traveling to Yellowstone this summer. If you would like to see some of my print in person you can stop by the Paradise Gallery in Gardiner on the border of the park.

I have about half of the prints here http://www.jessleephotos.com/paradisegallery/index.htm
The rest will be added as time permits (what ever that means;)
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Alaska Giizzly Cubs

While I do still have openings for this year I have secured the following dates for this great Alaska Adventure in 2010. Our June trip (Alaska Spring) featuring cubs and wild flowers will be June 27 - July 3rd. August dates are 22-29 just in time to head to Denali with me for Autumn colors.
If you haven’t been to Silver Salmon with me you are missing a real treat.

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Yellowstone wolf chasing elk
Yellowstone wolf chasing elk

It was really bad light from the only place we could watch the stand off. It had gone on all day. The cow elk on the tiny island, The 3 wolves napping on the shore, only attacking when the elk tried to rest.
Finally as the light got in the worsts location for us the wolves left the lake shore. They were out of sight for about 5 minutes on the far side of the lake. Then the 2 grays and the black returned. The grays drew the cow elks attention while the black circled the lake to come in behind its prey. The black lay in the cover along the lake shore taking in deep breaths to prepare it for what was to come. Then it charged.
The battle went on for what seemed to be a long time. The outcome inevitable. What was bad light for us was the end for the elk.
After the kill we watched the wolves take large pieces of their capture to the Alpha Female and the pup waiting in the den some 15 miles away.

I suppose I could have processed this for the shadow and again for the highlights but to me the harsh light seems to fit

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Yes it is hard to keep this in mind and it is a trap we all fall into. You  can avoid this by remembering to look at the total image.
That is one of the great advantages of going to a place like our tour to Silver Salmon Lodge in Alaska. You have plenty of time and subjects to shoot and learn.
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I am trying to get away from sending  newsletters but they do have value to those who choose to subscribe. Since the good folks who choose to read my blog alsxo have value I will also post the newsletters here.

Here is the newsletter,

 I am offering some really great prices on upcoming tours..
 
Our great Spring bear trip to Silver Salmon lodge in Alaska is now being offered to subscribers at the super low price of $3795.
On this trip we will have our own private lodge where we can do image critiques, Technique discussion and how too programs on subjects such as, the best way to work with subjects such as Grizzliy Bears. Of course this is all supported with our usual on site field instruction.
Check out this great trip at. http://jessleephotos.com/Alaskabears609.htm
 
No doubt this is the best Bear photography trip around. It is timed for flowers and bear cubs.
 
Yellowstone Spring
It is going to be a great year. I have already been finding bears and wolves during the first days the park has been open.
http://jessleephotos.com/ysnpspringmem09.htm  $899. with transportation in the park.
 
Yellowstone Grand Teton Spring. The flowers should be peaking with baby animals about.
 
We are now partnering with Hunts Photo for gift certificates,
Hunts current specials.
sandisk extreme IV 4gig compact flash durcati edition 40.00 limited supply
canon 5D markII currently instock bodies.
hoodman 3.0 loupe 75.00 check out live demonstartion on hoodman website.
epson 3800 factory refurbied printer one year warranty 799.99 kimited supply
contact gary farber at 1-800-221-1830 ext 2332 or john duggan at ext 2314 or email Gary at digitalguygary@wbhunt.com
 
 
Tour rebates on the purchase of  Wimberly Tripod heads.
Think Tank will send you a free bag with a purchase of $50 when you order from http://www.thinktankphoto.com/workshop  and enter the code WS-010 .
 
Just for the fun of it you might want to look at some of the great images we captured on our recent Southwest Trip.
For those who would like to do this trip I am currently working on a small group trip like this next spring. We will have a 3 day 2 night extention to White Pocket. This is a 4 wheel drive camp out trip to one of the most unusual locations on this planet.
A recent comment from Gene Covey about this trip.
 
‘Hi Jess:
 
Thanks again for the fantastic landscape shoot in the Desert Soutwest.  I’m sure I would found about 10% of those locations without you, but the other 90% would have been lost.  It’s always a pleasure shooting with you, be it in Yellowstone, Lake Clark, Wild Horses, or the desert southwest.
 
Your friend,  Gene”
 
Email for  details    jess@jessleephotos
 
For more details and newS check the blog at http://www.jessleephotos.com 
Best Wishes.
Jess
 
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Who knows what a hoodoo knows?

For a quick photo review you can check this link. It covers Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons, Bryce, Zion National parks and some interesting country between those great locations.
http://www.jessleephotos.com/azspring/index.htm
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Stone face and light beam

Finally I am in the office where I can ad more images from our great and productive trip to the Four Corners area.
This is day two after another  try at Wave permits.
We spent mid day being jostled by the crowds in upper Antelope Canyon. It is always more crowded than you would like there, but hiring a Native America guide to control traffic allowed us the chance to capture some nice images with the light beams and glowing walls.
For some reason this reminds me of the face of an Egyptian Goddess. Maybe the light beam thing was getting to me ;)).

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Wire Pass Sandstone

Day 1 Utah/Arizona, We unsecussfully tried to get Wave permits today. To console our selfeves and work out the kinks we hiked down into Wire pass and found this sandstone formation along the way

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Into the wild winter
Into the wild winter

OPP’s,

This time it is not a mistake but it is about Other People’s Photos that I am adding to my web site. In this case it is Steve Berkowitz’s photo’s just added to the clients page of my web site.
Steve is a friend, tour alumni (or survivor some would say) and has one of the best Red Fox photo collections I have seen.
Steve is the young guy on the right of the photo, the guy doing the Santa imitation is yours truly and the man on the left is my good friend Bob Landis.  Bob who is a 2 time Emmy winning film maker often invites my groups to his home in Gardiner to see first hand the rough cuts on the nature  (usually wolf) films he is working on. This is a really neat inside view of the Nature film makers life. Truly and inspirational and educational experience.
Steve’s images from our February trip can be seen on my site at http://jessleephotos.com/clients.htm, more of his work can be seen at http://www.pbase.com/lerkes .
If any past tour members would like to have their images up on the clients portion of the site please send me an email with the images attached max 800pix.
FREE IS GOOD ! and the folks at Think Tank are offer a free piece of gear to anyone who make over a $50 purchase and enters the code for my group when ordering from the page http://www.thinktankphoto/workshop the code is WS-010
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Well the winter tours are over in Yellowstone and they ended on a great note. Another 3 dog day and before 9 am.

First we found the agate wolf pack near the specimen ridge trail head where they put on a nice howling display for the cameras. Shortly there after we found this Red Fox digging up an old food cache. After this guy left us with only butt shots were headed up to Lamar to spend some time working with a Coyote and a elk kill. It was a great way to finish my 3 Yellowstone winter tours in February.

Now for a couple of week catching up on office work then I will be heading to Souther Utah for Slot Canyons and Slick Rock photo tour.

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