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Nature Photo Guides features the photography of Sarah Marino and Ron Coscorrosa, educational photography ebooks, photography resources, and stories about our travels in our Airstream trailer. 

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"Whipper Snapper" - A young aspen tree holds its ground among its older siblings. #sanjuanmountains #colorado #fall #fallcolors #autumn #aspen
"Blizzard" - Heavy snowfall early during the fall season in southwest Colorado. #colorado #fallcolors #autumn #snow
"Painted Leaves". Freshly fallen aspen leaves in a shallow pond. More fall photos linked in my profile. #colorado #autumn #fallcolors
"Who Needs Vermont?" The oaks put on quite a show this year in southwest Colorado, giving the maples in Vermont a run for their money! See my full Colorado Autumn gallery for more - link in profile. #colorado #autumn #fall #fallcolors #oaks #cottonwoods
Heading out to photograph fall colors doesn't always result in photographs of fall colors. #abstract #water
For the first time in months there is now obvious fresh snow on the San Juan Mountains in southwest Colorado. It is only a slight dusting on the highest peaks but it's a good indicator that fall is quickly approaching. Fall doesn't last long up here and can quickly be overtaken by winter, and if you're lucky the transition can happen when there's still leaves on the trees. #sanjuanmountains #colorado #aspen #fall #autumn

Sarah on 500px

Desert Tiles
Edge of Light
Death Valley Dunes
Summer Storm
Flooded Badwater Basin
Clearing Storm, Iceland
Seeing photos of Columbia River Gorge wildfire is beyond heart-breaking, especially since it started because someone was being irresponsible with fireworks. My first real photography trip took place in this magical area and that experience was life-changing in some personally profound ways. Many of my fellow photographers have had similarly transformative experiences while hiking these trails, photographing the waterfalls, exploring the creeks, and just soaking in the beauty of the forest. The natural wonders being destroyed, firefighters placing themselves in harm’s way, homes at risk, and friends in the area whose livelihoods will be affected in the aftermath... It is all literally sickening to think about, especially when adding in the devastation from the fires in Glacier National Park, the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and the incoming storm threatening Florida and the East Coast. If anything positive comes out of this situation, hopefully some people learn that fireworks and forests don’t mix, no matter how fun it might seem at the time. #oregon #columbirivergorge #leavenotrace #naturephotography
I haven’t posted on Instagram in months and some people have asked why. We have been busy – selling a house, traveling full-time in our Airstream RV for the last year, getting ready to move into a new house, all while trying to keep up with the work that pays the bills. It has been a lot to manage and while we have been hiking/exploring a lot, I have not been doing a lot of photography. My mind has been too scattered but I am looking forward to getting back in the swing of things this fall. Also, I have come to loathe Instagram and what it promotes (mainly: all the #naturelovers who clearly don’t care much about the places and creatures they are photographing, just the likes and adulation that comes as a result of #instafame). So, in starting to post again, I am unfollowing every hub I followed, ridding my feed of the people who post things that make me sad/angry, no longer playing the hashtag game, and posting photos I like without much consideration for what others will think. So, yeah, I photographed a bunch of fallen leaves and some pinecones in a forest in California’s Eastern Sierra. Hopefully a more curated Instagram is a happier Instagram for me. If so, I'll try to post more often. If not, you can always find me on Facebook (my personal profile is the only place I post much these days - you are welcome to send me a friend request or follow me there). ✌️#california #nature
Just a quick note about our newest educational product, Black & White Photography: A Complete Guide for Nature Photographers. 📷This course includes a 183-page PDF ebook and three video sets on black and white photo processing using Lightroom, Photoshop, and Silver Efex Pro (available as a bundle or individually). Until March 31 (tomorrow!), you can save 20% with the code BW20. You can learn more here: http://bit.ly/bw-course (also linked in my profile). From a recent buyer: “I have to say I’m incredibly pleased with the quality of this series. Most tutorials don’t lay the ground work for the full walk-through edit. Your [tutorials are] laid out so precisely and are so well thought out and organized. The price point for the quality is one of the best on the tutorial market (I own at least 10 landscape tutorials). I can’t wait to up my B&W game!!! Thank you Sarah, truly impressive video series.” 😊Thank you for the continued support of my photography through likes, encouraging comments, helpful feedback, and purchases of our products. 🙋🏻🙌#landscapephotography #naturephotography #blackandwhite #bnw_life #ig_shotz_bw #top_bnw #bnw_captures #bnw_drama #world_bnw #bnw_planet #igworldclub_bnw
Thank you for all of the comments and likes on my recent "ten tips for better black and white photos" Instagram series. I really appreciate the dialogue, feedback, and support. 🙌 You can find a more detailed version of the tips all in one place in this blog post 📝 http://bit.ly/better-BW (also linked above in my profile). 📷: Yosemite National Park 🏞 on a stormy day. 🙋🏻 #naturephotography #blackandwhite #bnw_life #ig_shotz_bw#top_bnw #bnw_captures #bnw_drama #world_bnw #bnw_planet #igworldclub_bnw#yosemite #california #mountains #nationalpark#usinterior #wearethewild
Black & white photo tip #10 of 10 📷 Of all the tips in this series, this is the most important one. This series has been based on the idea that nature photography is a creative pursuit and that a person’s photography can serve as a means of personal expression and storytelling 📖. All of the ideas I have shared here work for me and help me tell the stories I want to tell about the places I visit and photograph. You will likely find ways to adapt these ideas for your own photography since you will likely have different goals ⛳️ for your work than I have for mine. Through your choices of subject matter 🌊🌺🏞🏜, composition, mood, and processing, you share a part of yourself - your vision🙋🏻. I encourage you to pursue photography as an expression of yourself and your interests - from your time in the field 🗺through processing 🖥 and presenting your photographs 🌄. Experiment a lot, try new things, take risks, embrace failure as a means of learning and most importantly of all – enjoy the creative process. 😊 Photo: A salty and muddy playa in Death Valley National Park on a stormy day. ⛈#naturephotography #blackandwhite #bnw_life #ig_shotz_bw#top_bnw #bnw_captures #bnw_drama #world_bnw #bnw_planet #igworldclub_bnw#deathvalley #deathvalleynationalpark #california #desert #nationalpark#usinterior #wearethewild
Black and white photo tip #9 of 10 📷 If personal expression is one of your goals for your photography, learn to make your own processing decisions. 🖥 By relying on presets, you are allowing an algorithm or another photographer 🙋🏻to decide what your photo should look like. Also, presets often convert a photo to grayscale 🏳🏴and add some contrast but often not enough and in some of the wrong places. While presets can be a great learning tool 📚and offer a good place to start in processing some photos, learning how to make manual adjustments 📝 in your favorite processing software can help you finish your photos in a way that is true to your vision. 🔆 The most common question I get about my black and white photos: "do you use Nik Silver Efex Pro for processing?" No, I do not. While some photographers get good results from this software and it can be a good place to start learning about processing black and white photos, I much prefer the more manual controls of Lightroom and Photoshop. Photo 📷🏔a small tarn deep in the backcountry of Jasper National Park in Canada. 🇨🇦 #naturephotography #blackandwhite #bnw_life#ig_shotz_bw #top_bnw #bnw_captures #bnw_drama #world_bnw #bnw_planet#igworldclub_bnw #canada #canadianrockies #jaspernationalpark #backcountry #hiking #backpacking #mountains