Blog Post 12 Taylor Parnell

Tyler Westcott

Tyler has been shooting since 2007, when he decided to take the modest step towards shooting a digital SLR camera, a nikon D40. He had a long standing interest in photography. Tyler immediately found that he really loved takings photos and it has mostly consumed him since then. He made his first trip to Yosemite in October of 2007, and a whole new appreciation for the park, and the natural world evolved. He is mostly out hiking around national park’s with a large format camera, a DSLR, a tripod, and any basic survival gear. His wife even goes on hiking trips also to help carry some of his gear on their long hikes.

Tyler is trying to capture the beauty he see's in our national parks as well as a whole new appreciation to watching the world evolve. He sometimes waits around for days just to capture the right image at the right time like Shane taught us in class, with the clouds in the right position, the sky, the colors surrounding it and etc. Tyler decided to capture the beauty and shadows in the first and second pictures of the water, rocks, and mist coming from the waterfalls. I would like to learn how to capture mist, and water the way Tyler does in his photography. In Tyler's third photo, he chose to capture the beauty of the tree branch that was laying there, or growing there with the sky in the background capturing the colors of pink, white, purple, blue, some yellows and even some grays and many more colors.
     I really would like to travel and hike around some beautiful parks, and get some really good photographs of the sunsets in the mountains, or the fog and mist in the mornings setting in over the grass. I would like to learn how he focused in on the tree branch as well as the sky capturing all of those colors and mountains. I think that he made perfect timing and on the second photo capturing all that he did in his image, as well as the first photo and the reflections in the water. I like the decisions Tyler made on his images, it really shows that he took his time and made these images what he desired to make them.