Posted on May 14, 2018, 4:55 pm, by QT Luong, under
Resources.
Which are America’s most crowded national parks? Less crowded national parks? Can widely-publicized lists be trusted? Based on my visits, I have a good idea, but you don’t have to take my word for it. In my former career, I dealt with numbers quite a bit, and here I pull out precise answers by careful […]
Posted on October 13, 2017, 6:10 pm, by QT Luong, under
Resources.
I have seen quite a bit of confusion about how many national parks there are in America, and what distinguishes them from other public lands, including state parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other units managed by the National Park Service. In this article, I break down the names of the public lands and examine […]
Posted on May 13, 2017, 11:55 pm, by QT Luong, under
Announcements.
The Department of the Interior is reviewing the protected status of 27 national monuments. After explaining what they are, I will be giving the perspective of a photographer of the national parks, with the hope that it will encourage you to speak out for the national monuments. People know what a national park is, but […]
Posted on September 13, 2010, 11:19 am, by QT Luong, under
Locations.
Revised Sept 2020. With their tremendous diversity of environments and pristine scenery, the National Parks are a great place – although not always the best – to see and photograph fall foliage color. Here is a guide to fall color highlights in nearly each of the National Parks, which lists the best time to be […]
Posted on February 9, 2010, 2:46 am, by QT Luong, under
Resources.
I just saw National Parks maps in PDF format for sale here. A quick glance at the sample Acadia National Park map was enough to determine that those are in fact the excellent maps produced and distributed by the National Park Service. You may not be aware of that, but everything produced by the US […]
Posted on September 30, 2024, 7:08 pm, by QT Luong, under
Recollections.
The first time I had flown somewhere just for the purpose of photography was when I traveled to New England in the fall of 1996. Beyond the pastoral scenes, the revelation of the fall foliage there turned out to be the starting point for my updated approaches to time and scale. Back then, since arriving […]
Posted on May 28, 2022, 4:50 pm, by QT Luong, under
Books.
The third edition of Treasured Lands has just arrived (order your copy). Although differences are not as many as between the first and the second edition, they were still enough for my distributor to request a new edition rather than another printing – overall the seventh. The New River Gorge chapter The main difference is […]
Posted on September 10, 2020, 12:32 pm, by QT Luong, under
Techniques.
If you are making prints, sooner or later you’ll have to upsize the image file. Even with such a basic task, there is much to be gained by using appropriate apps. In this post, the third and last in a series devoted to the Topaz suite of AI-based tools, I examine Topaz Gigapixel AI upsizing […]
Posted on November 28, 2019, 8:09 pm, by QT Luong, under
Uncategorized.
Today is a day to remember what we should be thankful for. While I have many people and things to be grateful for both in my personal and professional life, this autumn, I am simply happy to be alive and in good health. On Sept 30, half an hour after dropping off nine large framed […]
Posted on November 7, 2019, 12:00 am, by QT Luong, under
Techniques.
Despite being one of the most spectacular spots on the entire coastline of Acadia National Park, Ravens Nest on the Schoodic Peninsula is a little known and unmarked location. I will elaborate in the next article, which will be a location guide. In this article I discuss how I photographed and processed the image using […]
