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Pack your gear and let’s rock and roll. 2021 has some amazing adventures lined up.

10/12/2022

This just happens to be our backyard. We’ve had a few very cool nights that led to wet, foggy mornings. This is a beauty that nature threw at us today. It was cool!

09/16/2022

Quick how to of a 4 minute exposure in the middle of the day.

09/16/2022

Happened upon this serene scene yesterday and couldn’t resist stopping. This is a perfect example of using an ND filter in the middle of the day. Explanation of my process in the link in my bio.

05/07/2022

Some trees live very very long lives. Their roots grow deep and wide and they feel the world around them. This tree is a gate keeper to the other side. Just beyond lies a civil war era grave yard and this big beauty keeps watch. Her stories I’m sure would amaze us.

05/06/2022

One more from my battlefield series. Field artillery in the 1860’s was made to be mobile and inflict untold damage to those in its way. I know little about civil war era cannons but I do know they inflicted a lot of pain and suffering. I would assume this particular cannon is not original to that era. If I’m wrong let me know .

05/04/2022

Shooting at different times of day creates completely different moods.

05/03/2022

As day turns into night and the last light peaks over the horizon I had only a moment to position myself for this shot of the Bloody Lane watchtower at Antietam.

05/01/2022

The history of our National Park system dates back to 1872 when congress established Yellowstone National Park as our nations 1st National Park. In 1916 the National Park Service was established to protect the already current 35 parks and many of the others followed suite in the decades to come. In 2022 there are 423 National Park sites with 11 of them being National Battlefields. This infamous site saw 5500 soldiers die In the bloodiest day in our countries history at the Battle of Antietam. This site came to be known as Bloody Lane and is right in my back yard. Spending a few hours there last week, this photograph preferences my next few post which show this national landmark.

04/07/2022

Bye bye Covid… it’s time for adventure! If you like to travel and have interest in learning how to maximize your photography, join the adventure!

02/11/2022

This serene scene was much harsher than it looks. Zero degrees with negative wind chill, made this one a challenge. Learning to shoot in cold environments takes planning, patience and lots of wool! Captured by

02/04/2022

Seeing creatively isn’t always easy to do. This spot was bitterly cold, the wind was blowing and gloves were necessary to avoid frostbite. The first shot or 2 I didn’t like, so I had to adjust and try to see creatively. This looks like a large but in reality it’s just an ice and snow drift at the edge of Lake Ontario. The ice blows in off the water and piles up on the shore, then when it snows the drifts resemble sand dunes. We didn’t use any color filters to capture this but I love how the snow picked up hues of purple. A 10 stop ND filter slowed the scene down and with about a 5 min exposure the clouds blurred quite nicely. My camera angle was very low to the ground making the drift look larger than it really was. On your next photo adventure think about what you are seeing and after your first capture what you can do to improve it.

02/03/2022

Last week Mike Busada-Mike B Photography and I spent a couple days fishing on the Salmon River just a stones throw south of Lake Ontario. This shot looks like sand dunes but that is snow and ice piled up at the edge of the lake. Seriously surreal experience when you look out at a sea of ice. This shot was taken just before dark. It was about 10 degrees and the wind was howling. We were parked about 20 steps away. Sometimes you really don’t need to venture too far from warmth to get a cool shot. Tell us what think. If you have a cool snow or ice picture please share in the comments!

01/19/2022

The World’s oceans are immense. Our oceans cover more than 70% of the worlds surface. For this simple fact only a small fraction of marine species have been discovered. It is claimed that 95% of all of earths living species exist in the oceans. More than 70% of the air we breath is produced in our oceans and all of this is on a delicate edge that most people seem to be oblivious about. This serene photograph show the beauty of this delicate system but beneath this water is a world in peril. It is our responsibility to care, to be informed and to understand how we can all make changes that make a difference.

01/18/2022

Image from the previous video post of the Ocean City Pier. Shot in B&W and color. Both are cool. 4 minute exposure with a 10stop ND filter plus polarizer. Learn this and a whole lot more when you sign up for our workshops.

01/18/2022

01/13/2022

Double exposures in camera take practice. Depending on the camera, there are a set of steps you can play with to dramatically change your image, this technique and many more are things we concentrate on at our workshops. Link in bio!

01/13/2022

Winter is cold and bleak but it does provide a stunning background once you get past the deadness of it all. It will soon awaken once again as the big ball keeps on spinning. Surreal…

06/09/2021

Well considering we launched Open Spaces the week COVID-19 said hello, we’ve been on quite the travel hiatus. We are itching to get out there and travel, teach, explore! What’s on your list for adventures? Come along with us! Stay tuned for workshop dates and start dreaming of the Oregon Coast, Olympic Peninsula, Alaska, Africa!

04/08/2021

Now that it’s nice and warm, remember a few short weeks ago when it looked like this? Way cool little church up in the northern hills of NY.

03/22/2021

One from a few weeks ago when we were on the Canadian border. The snow was incredibly beautiful up on Tug Hill and it’s symbiotic dance with the trees was well worth capturing.

02/14/2021

I love the way the sunlight looks coming through the trees. Photographing this sometimes doesn’t do it justice but I’ll never get tired of trying.

02/14/2021

I should have added this to my last post but I forgot that I took it. I enjoyed making my shots the other day and I wanted to show camera position. If you saw my story, I explained that these shots were taken with a 10stop ND filter at ISO 50, f22 for 50 seconds to get that velvety smooth water. I took a few additional shots at 1/60 to capture the snow falling and blended those in later.

02/12/2021

I got out today and made a few images. These were shot at Legore Bridge in the midst of this morning snow squaw. I originally set out to make these images black and white but I love the subtle colors that the snow created in the scene. Both were shot with a Canon 5Ds with a 24-70L lens. Shot at ISO 50, F22, with a 10 stop ND filter for 50 seconds to get that soft blur in the water. Both on a tripod sitting very low to the ground. If anyone has any questions about how I made these images please reach out.

01/03/2021

A ripple by definition is a small wave or series of waves on the surface of water, but it’s second and more desirable definition is a type of ice cream with wavy lines of colored flavored syrup running through it. Which is this?

09/03/2020

If you want to get a different perspective on nature, walk behind a waterfall. This gorgeous falls in Watkins Glen State Park pours over the trail giving way to a damp but gorgeous view that doesn’t happen often.
For you photogs out there. When I captured this exposure I had a neutral density +10 on. I was rushing and I shouldn’t have but I bumped the iso up a few notches to speed my SLOW exposure up! Sounds funny! So this was about a 40 second exposure. I thought all tourist would be blurred unrecognizable but when this group showed up I thought it added to my capture. Let me know what you think?

Hmmm, you gotta click for the full pic!

Jamie Turner

09/02/2020

I love to go off the beaten path, but sometimes the path takes you to busy places. The Gorge trail in Watkins Glen NY is a beautiful trail with rock steps carved into the gorge walls like something from the Misty Mountains in a very J R R Tolkien setting. I stood and waited my turn at this beautiful spot, just like everyone else, except I didn’t take a selfie. It was worth the wait.

08/31/2020

Open Spaces are everywhere and sometimes when you are wondering around in them moments happen. Sometimes when those moments happen you have to reach deep in your pocket, because your camera is in the car, and pull out your iPhone. This page is about capturing the essence of a place, making you feel that you are there or want to be, capturing it is the art, no matter what the device is.

08/23/2020

Hello to all our Open Spaces Workshop friends and followers. Being our first year of our workshop series we got off to a bad start. Going live with our workshop trips and website on March 1st was just a stroke of bad luck due to what happened in the months to come with COVID 19. Well things are slowly changing and we are starting to think about workshops for 2021, and 2022. We will soon announce our new date for the Oregon Coast and the Olympic Peninsula in 2021 and a few others workshops that will be a little closer to home for us, but equally as adventurous and educational. Our Open Spaces team made up by myself Jamie Turner, Michael Busada and Kathryn Turner will also be announcing other great adventures and a few dates for our portrait series workshops titled “Spirit”. All great things to come in the near future, because what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger and we will be back to our epic adventures soon! Stay tuned!!

08/21/2020

Ferns are in a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and neither have seeds or flowers. There are over 10,500 species of ferns and they all produce coiled fiddleheads that unravel as they grow. They are the flora of the forest and very photogenic indeed.
@ Pa Grand Canyon

08/19/2020

Forests cover 30 percent of the Earths land and when the sun’s rays spread through the canopy, it’s 100 percent beautiful!

If you have a beautiful picture of the forest I would love to see them below in the comments!

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Quick how to of a 4 minute exposure in the middle of the day.

Ocean City Pier shot on a CanonR5 with a Canon 24-70L lens. 📷Camera settings: 24mm, Bulb mode, ISO 50, F22. I used a 10stop ND filter combined with a circular polarizer. The exposure turned out best at 4 minutes after testing the 3 minute shot. #canonphotography #photography #photographytutorial #longexposurephotography #professionalphotographer #canonr5 #travelphotography #ocmd #oceancity #oceancitymaryland