Larry W Brown's photostream  

Until one has experienced the wilderness, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Simply put, I have a deep passion for nature and photographing it. I cherish the time that I get to spend in the wilderness, and preserving that time forever, in my photographs. The latest and greatest camera equipment is not what it's all about to me - it is about spending quality time in the great outdoors and the challenge of spending intimate moments with a wild animal or finding a spectacular landscape.

Those who have spent any solitary time on a mountain, know that it is a remarkable, wondrous world of finely detailed beauty and magnificent natural treasures. I hope that my nature photos can convey that to you, as I experience it in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia's Shenandoah National Park.

SNP is like a home away from home for me - I visit it all 12 months of the year. When wildlife activity is at peaks, I tend to sometimes go before the work day starts and also after the work day has ended. It seems that I can never get my fill!

Currently I don't own any high-end camera equipment as I'd like to, I have an old 8 MP Canon Rebel XT and an 18 MP Canon Rebel T2i, with 3 average lenses. The one I use the most is an EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 and if I had known then what I know now about low-light shooting, I'd have went the extra mile and purchased an f/2.8 prime or zoom lens. I'm sure that one of these days I'll own one or two, just don't know when yet.

Most of my shots are hand-held, with the wildlife usually always on the move there isn't enough time to level out a tripod - the window of opportunity is always a small one. Add low-light also to the equation, and you can understand why I shoot a lot at ISO 1600 to compensate for those 2 factors.

My web site address is www.ShenandoahViews.com and quite a few people have asked me why that is, after all I also have a www.LarryWBrown-Photography.com domain (which redirects to Shenandoah Views). Well being that all of my photos are directly related to either the Shenandoah Valley or Shenandoah National Park, I figured my site should be named appropriately, with a title (like a book), so that's what I done and how it came to be :-)

Flickr Groups That I Administrate
Shenandoah National Park
Oh, Deer!
Nature Imagery
Wild Photography

Black Bears are my true photographic passion:




I am also the web developer and 1/3 owner of the Guide To Shenandoah National Park & Skyline Drive, a Web site which serves as a free resource for visitors to the park. Based on the popular hiking book authored by the late Henry Heatwole.