by Joel Simpson | Jan 10, 2019 | My Adventure
As I demonstrated in my last post, we photographers are always processing our images to narrow the gap between what our sensors record and how we envision the subjects of our photographs. This may or may not be what we actually saw—if we remember it! There are many...
by Joel Simpson | Jan 16, 2019 | My Adventure
I returned to Ireland last summer (2018) to see some of the things I missed in my grand tour of the the island the previous summer. The place is virtually inexhaustible, however. I was planning to see Connemara National Park, after spending the night in a small town...
by Joel Simpson | Feb 3, 2019 | My Adventure
Abstract art in the 20th Century, especially Abstract Expressionism as it emerged from Surrealism in the 1940s in New York, has enabled us to appreciate much more than landscapes—scenic views from a distance—in the biophysical world. Much of my work in geological...
by Joel Simpson | Feb 11, 2019 | My Adventure
Every photograph in Earthforms has a story behind it and dozens more photographs that I took that day in that place. I could only offer a short summary in the captions in the back of the book, which also had to supply geological information. During my round-the-world...
by Joel Simpson | Mar 5, 2019 | My Adventure
On pages 42 and 43 of Earthforms there are two photographs of the Ice Canyon at Yolyn Am, Mongolia. Here is the story of the day I photographed them, May 13, 2014, during my trip around the world Our driver Ohchkee (who spoke no English) picked us up in his roomy SUV...
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