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Lessons From Losing a Week of Photos to Memory Card Failure

Posted on September 23, 2018, 4:50 pm, by QT Luong, under Techniques.
Summary: One of the photographer’s greatest fears is to lose a significant chunk of images from a big trip or event. In this long-form article, find out how a memory card failure caused a week of photographs to disappear, what I did to try to recover them via software, then physical data services, and the […]
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Twice the Same River: Photographing Tinkers Creek Gorge, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Posted on September 10, 2018, 10:15 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Observing natural changes is a rewarding aspect of revisiting a place, as I did for the Tinkers Creek Gorge of Cuyahoga National Park – obscure and far from California. The water flow fluctuated, and you can see in this post which conditions worked best for each scene and how I adjusted my composition in response […]
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Photographing Wet Places in a Dry Land, Mammoth Cave National Park

Posted on September 3, 2018, 10:54 am, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Mammoth Cave National Park is generally a dry place. I explore a few out-of-the-way watery places within the park, while discussing some of the compositional strategies I used in those relatively plain scenes. Sloan’s Crossing Pond Water has made the longest cave in the world. The karst landscape of Mammoth Cave National Park is characterized […]
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