InSharpFocus

InsharpFocus is the blog of photographer Roy Dressel, it highlights some of my own photographs but also photography that has influenced me through out the years. Black and White is my passion, I think it strips the image of the distractions of color, and lays it bear for us to explore shape and form. Oh, I am also a motorcyclist, so that theme will appear from time to time.

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Mt. St Helens,  1975, before the big boom. From near Mt. Hood. Along the Pacific Crest Trail.  I have been scanning these old slides, and this was from a Kodachrome 25 slide. My favorite slide film. 

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Sunset:  Stovepipe Wells Campground, Death Valley. November 2015. It’s a different campground, Lots of dirt, a few scrub bushes and the store and Hotel, but it’s one of my favorite places to camp, to be! The space is enormous. 

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Mt Washington from Rockpile Lake, July 1975. One of my most memorable camps was here at Rockpile Lake during the second summer on the Pacific Crest trail.  I spend at full day here.  

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The Bride In The Room. I couldn't quite put into words what I was seeing in my head, but I liked what I saw. The bride was back lit in this gorgeous room at the Sherwood country Club in Thousand Oaks CA. I saw the history in the wedding and what she was experiencing that day as if she was waling into history on that day. 

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Wedding this past weekend, first of the year and I realized how much I enjoy wedding photography. The emotion, even after 29 years of doing this, is still there. It's a fun job and one I still enjoy it. 

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Dream catchers for sale at the Watchtower in Grand Canyon national park. 

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OK, everyone who has visited the grand canyon takes this photo, or one like it, or one very close to it. Is there nothing new to shot at the Grand Canyon, not from the Rim is suspect, but the point is that it's new to you, or the next guy who takes the photo. it's my memory of the place and that is what a lot of our photography is. Not always art, but nice photos that invoke a memory of a time and place. 

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Yes, I do. 

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God, this reminds me of Idaho.

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The Sawtooth wolf pack (Gray wolves)

Picture by Jim and Jamie Dutcher

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Wow, what a cool Idea.. 

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Spring is in the air. 

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I was on a motorcycle ride in northern Nevada last summer and came across an old brick house at a ranch site. It had appeared that the people who lived there just up and left years ago, with this child's trike being one of many things left behind. I thought about that family, what had happened and the life they had left behind. The desert is like that, it makes you think. 

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I call this "the ring shot"  Quite creative of me hey. The bride had the idea on this fall day. I love it. 

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Sunset at the Mendota wildlife refuge in the San Joaquin Valley of California. it was a quite night, and I stopped the motorcycle to put on some worm clothes, looked up and and there was the sunset.