It's been a while!

Wow, things have been very busy and I've been caught up in so much the past few weeks. I am still waiting to get my computer back from Dell, but I was able to have the data recovered for free from my HD. Unfortunately because of all of this, the website and printing has been on hold.

I've been working to get my prints featured in a local gallery back in my home town. Things should be a go for my prints, both framed and sleeved, to be available at Bohemia (http://bohemianc.com) in West Jefferson, North Carolina. I will likely feature 8x12 and 12x18 inch prints in white mats.

I will attempt to post a few recent photo edits (the old computer is somehow still able to run CS3) from Stone Mountain, Hanging Rock and Cullasaja Gorge.

If you are interested in any prints, peyton.hale@gmail.com is the best method of reaching me.

Off trekking & updates...

I'm headed out in the AM to Stone Mountain State Park, North Carolina's largest state park and one of the eastern most sites for waterfalls. I'll be putting my Singh Ray Vari-ND filter to work on some of the more famous waterfall sites and maybe trekking into some areas for some sunrise/sunset and night time photography. I plan on stopping through Hanging Rock State Park to shoot the upper and lower Cascades and maybe a final stop on my way back to Raleigh to shoot the sunset from atop Hanging Rock :).

Look for updates next week after I get back and begin processing some of the images.

Looks like I'll be taking a quick trip to Culesaja Gorge in southwestern NC in a few weeks to meet up with a few friends and shoot some of the remote streams in the area. Colorado is in the works for June (although late July in the San Juan Mountains is a great time for wildflowers) and August may hold a week in Washington state exploring in and around Mount Rainer.

Keep checking in for more!

"Red Pyg"

an 8x10 print, matted and sealed, will be donated to the NC Herpetological Society to raffle off for the upcoming Reptile & Amphibian Day 2010 at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences March 13, 2010. All proceeds will go to benefit this non-profit society geared towards education, research and conservation of North Carolina's diverse herpetofauna.

Website in the making and more...

A friend has graciously offered to work on a custom website for my photography, so I hope to have this up and going sooner than later. Although, this means I need to get myself out and taking more photos.


I also plan on donating some prints, either 11x17s or 13x19s to some upcoming events to be raffled off to raise money for various organizations. More to come on this soon.

New gear on the way...

After much deliberation, confusion, and scratching my head for an weeks on end I made the plunge for the Singh Ray Vari-ND 77mm filter to use in my landscape photography. This filter gives you up to 8 stops, allowing you to blur aspects of motion in your photos. This will work exceptionally well in shooting waterfalls, oceanscapes, and so forth. I decided to go with the Vari-ND rather than the Vari-N-Duo for both price (~$100 difference) and the fact I can mount my thin circular polarizer to it and control glare as needed.

I hope to post a full review on this filter after I get back from Stone Mountain State Park shooting the Cascades and Hidden Falls at that location.

Canon EOS 50D w/grip - Sold.

Enjoy Josh!


I think I'm going to focus on full frame for now until I get some revenue built up to work with wildlife. under 10k clicks (probably about 7k), slight scratch around the ISO button from loading/unloading the camera with the 500L back in January. perfect otherwise. I'll include a 2GB Sandisk Extreme III card with it as well.

More photo stuff...

Just letting everyone know that photos are now available in the store at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. Select 8x10 prints are there now, with more hopefully to be featured and I should be expanding to 11x14s for the store.