I am happy to announce my next book! LIGHT ON THE LANDSCAPE: Photographs and Lessons from a Life in Photography. To be published by Rocky Nook in the spring of 2020. A collection of photographs and essays based on my… Continue Reading →
I have been running my Yosemite Private Workshops for ten years now. Although I taught group workshops around the world starting in the early 1980s, I have greatly enjoyed the one-on-one sessions and personal connections I’ve had while showing… Continue Reading →
Greetings from the Sierra Nevada, In my past two blogs posts, I’ve shared new work from this spring and early summer. Here are four more, with comments and details below each image. If you have a favorite image from below,… Continue Reading →
I am excited to announce my new Yosemite Private Workshops. Yosemite National Park is a photographer’s haven, a masterpiece in stone full of classic scenes and intimate landscapes. Come join William Neill, author and photographer of William Neill’s Yosemite Volume One, and photographer… Continue Reading →
Last Saturday, I was at my son’s All Star soccer tournament in Madera, CA. In between games, I was walking around the park and found this tree trunk with great patterns. I used my iPhone 4s, and the quality of… Continue Reading →
Practice, practice… I’ve been very frustrated lately because I haven’t been able to get out of the office and up to Yosemite for waterfalls, reflections in the meadow, corn lilies in the high country. Fortunately, my water lilies are in… Continue Reading →
Last week, I was in Yosemite Valley delivering a print to The Ansel Adams Gallery. On my way home that afternoon, I stopped to check out Horsetail Falls. Although I didn’t photograph, the falls was very full and gorgeous in… Continue Reading →
I have been watching my crop of sunflowers carefully now for several weeks, observing the flowers closely. They say timing is everything, and yesterday morning I “harvested” this flower bringing it into my “studio” which in this case was the… Continue Reading →
Last Monday, my kids went back to school. My 13 year old daughter started 8th grade, and I have the morning run, taking her to her new school which is 20 minutes away from my house. I will be making… Continue Reading →
Earlier this week, I received three calla lilies to photograph. For three days, I left them in a corner of my dining room where I have found magic light in the past (see blog post from October 2009). I hung… Continue Reading →
Here is another image from Monday morning. I took seven frames, each one stop difference, and my assistant John assembled them using Lightroom and Photomatix’s Lightroom plugin (http://www.hdrsoft.com/). This was taken with my Canon 16-35mm as the sun rose through… Continue Reading →
I made this image yesterday on my patio. The water reflects my ochre-colored wall. I have been watching the light for when the stones and water were in shadow but the wall remained lit. I was trying to find a… Continue Reading →
Last week, I was busy getting my kids to bed when I noticed a glow outside. Ran upstairs to grab my camera, stepped out my second floor office door, and made this image. I was almost too late, and only… Continue Reading →
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