Why Your Skies Keep Blowing Out (And What a Decade of Field Teaching Reveals About the Fix)

Why Your Skies Keep Blowing Out (And What a Decade of Field Teaching Reveals About the Fix)

I have stood in more blown-out sunsets than I care to count. Not my sunsets — the ones other photographers show me on the back of their cameras, faces fallen, asking why the sky looks like a white sheet when thirty seconds ago it was on fire. After twenty years shooting landscapes full-time, I’ve watched this exact moment of disappointment repeat itself on workshop hillsides from the Oregon coast to the high desert.