Last week Oklahoma photographer, Kim Baker, presented some of her work to our local photography group. It was great. She mainly shoots landscapes on a medium format camera and her photographs are outstanding. Click here to visit her website which features some truly beautiful images from all over Oklahoma. I hope I am able to emulate her work someday. Kim will also be leading a photography workshop in November at Keystone Lake, and guess what? I signed up to attend! Space is limited so I was happy to find that there was still room for me.
For this week’s image please take a look at my new header. It will probably change in the future but for now it’s a photograph I took of the Arkansas River from the 71st Street Bridge. That’s downtown Tulsa in the background. For the capture I applied what I learned at Kim’s presentation: use a tripod, slow shutter speed, and morning light. Morning light means getting out there in the dark before sunrise, which I did. As a matter of fact, according to my EXIF data, I took the picture at 6:41 am and had an exposure of 30 seconds. Sunrise wasn’t until 7:14 am. Such efforts make a difference but I still have a long way to go.