Interesting links for GVA Photographers

Feeling guilty about my lack of participation recently, yet having nothing too creative to share yet I thought to share some interesting links I found recently. The first is a young photographer from Iowa whose website I found last night and whose photography has kept me up till all hours. He is a storm chaser, so he has some awesome lightning and super cell photos on his site you might want to check out, but he also is into bird photography and he really likes to shoot at night. So there are very beautiful photos of places like the Badlands in South Dakota or Yellowstone Park. Very inspiring and despite his obvious talent this young man says he does not know what to do with his life yet - seems he is doing just fine with what he is doing presently!

http://extremeinstability.com/imagesbyyear.htm

Next comes a couple of links to a useful free application which allows photographers to calculate when the best time is to get those wonderful sunrise and sunset pics. It gives you this information for any location in the world plus it also informs you of the extended period beyond sunrise and sunset where you can see the stars as well. There is also an app for cellphone available, but this one will cost you about 9 bucks.

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/it%E2%80%99s-all-about-the-light-the-photographer%E2%80%99s-ephemeris

http://photoephemeris.com/

First link is to a short article about this program and then follows the link for the download. Btw, the first link is pretty cool to check out for those of you who would like to learn more about digital photography. You can sign up for free and then you will receive weekly newsletter with all kinds of information about different techniques as well as challenges using these techniques which you can publish on their forum for exposure, inspiration and constructive criticism.

While I was writing this it occurred to me that I have not been entirely without any artistic output and while here I may as well share it. It is a little exercise in digital art using several photographs Photoshop Elements and Gimp. Hope you like it!