Link | Description |
Wave Permits | Coyote Buttes North and South Online permits |
Wave permit Q&A | How to obtain a permit |
Navajo Nation | A backcountry permit is neded to hike or camp on Navajo land. |
Canyonlands | White Rim and Dolls House permits |
Link | Description |
Weather Underground current | at a weather station on the SW corner of Vermilion Cliffs |
Weather Underground Forecast | 10 days out, for SE corner Vermilion Cliffs |
Weather Underground Historical | For Page Municipal Airport |
Weather.com | The Weather Channel, Current and Forecast, for Page |
National Weather Service Forecast | Point Forecast at The Wave |
Climate | Historical Temperature and Precipitation by month, US only |
Weatherspark Climate Data | Climate, worldwide - excellent site |
Sunrise/Sunset Times | Sunrise sunset, Moonrise moonset, Moon Phase - worldwide |
Stellarium | Free planetarium software, must have for night photography |
Link | Description |
DPReview | Camera & Lens Reviews, News, Forum |
Photo.net | Articles, many images |
The Luminous-Landscape | Articles |
FredMiranda | Photoshop Plug-ins, User Lens Reviews, Forums |
The Digital Picture | Lens reviews. Test chart images, Canon oriented |
Photozone | Lens reviews |
DXOMark | Lens & Camera reviews |
Buying a Camera | Best Buy's guide to buying a camera |
How Camera's Work | Brief discussion of how cameras work, many links |
Travel Photography | Beginner's Guide to Travel Photography |
Saving on Photography | Tips for Saving on Your Photography Hobby |
Adobe Systems | Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, … |
Thom Hogan | Many articles, Nikon oriented |
The Nocturnes | Night Photography Resources |
Birds as Art | Arthur Morris on Birds |
NatureScapes | Articles, images, and forums - wildlife oriented |
Luminosity Mask Software | by Tony Kuyper |
Helicon Focus | Focus stacking |
SLR Gear | Lens reviews |
Nik Software | now DXO, Color Efex Pro and Viveza are excellent |
Star Trail Stacker | Free PS action to create star trails, by Floris van Breugel, great! |
Noise Ninja | Noise reduction software, easy to use |
Photomatix | HDR - Photomatix sets the standard |
Akvis Enhancer | Brings out details in an image |
Color Mechanic Pro | Adjusts color easily and simple to use, not well known |
Topaz Labs | Noise reduction and other Photoshop add-ins |
Rob Galbraith | mostly for photojournalists, good Compact Flash database |
Lens Tip | Lens reviews |
PTGui | Panorama stitching software |
DOFMaster | On-line DOF Calculator |
DOF Theory and Equations | Wikipedia article |
Focusing in the Digital Era | Luminous-Landscape article on focusing |
Diffraction | Cambridge in Colour article on diffraction |
Field of View Calculator | and an angle of view calculator as well |
onOne Software | Several PS actions, I use Perfect Resize and Perfect Portrait |
Link | Description |
Canon USA | |
Nikon USA | |
Kirk Enterprises | Camera brackets, clamps, and rails |
Really Right Stuff | Ball Heads, clamps, brackets, pano heads, rails |
Gitzo US | Tripods |
Sigma | Cameras, Lenses |
Carl Zeiss - US | Lenses |
Tiffen | Filters and DFX software |
Link | Description |
Elaine Belvin | My wife's Images |
Tom Till Tours | Tom Till tours |
Evanescent Light | Many great images of the southwest by Ian Parker |
Isabel Synnatschke | Many maps and excellent images, mostly in German |
Grand Falls of the Little Colorado | Great information on the Grand Falls - from Isabel |
Rainer Grosshopf | Many maps and images, Adeii Eechii Cliffs, in German |
Arizona Highways | Subscribe, Tours, the best images of Arizona |
Covert Arch | Some maps and images |
List of US Arches | Natural Arches and Bridges Society List of US Arches |
Secrets of the West | Steffen Synnatschke's website, maps, images, blog |
Lou DeSerio | Sedona images and workshops |
Terra Galleria | Many many locations shot by QT Luong |
Si Belle La Terre Accueil | Blog with many good images throughout the world, in French |
Bob's Arches | Good list of arches, mostly in Utah |
OuestUSA | Excellent site in French, many routes and maps of the southwest |
Phillipe Schuler | Many good images of unusual locations |
Photographing the Southwest | The bible for photographing the west, also on Amazon. Kindle editions. |
Photograph America | Newsletter for photographers |
George Steinmetz | Aerial Photography of the world |
Awake the Light | Articles and Tours, excellent blog by Mollie Isaacs and Mary Linghjem |
Wilderness Utah | by Paul Jones, many good photos and articles |
Jessica Fridrich | Many good photos of the southwest |
Link | Description |
Hike Arizona | Many many trails, many with tracks |
Best Hikes | The hike to The Wave |
Google Maps | The best maps on the web |
Google Earth | Google Maps on steroids |
Google Map Maker | Add location information, roads to google maps |
Bing Maps | Another great map source |
GPS Babel | Convert tracks, routes form one format to another, free |
GPS Prune | Free software to clean up tracks and routes |
OKMap | Convert GeoTIFFs to other formats, free |
Robogeo | Geoencode photographs, not free |
The Photographers Ephemeris | Great software, determine whether a location will be in shadow… |
Topoquest Map Finder | Find the USGS topo map for a given named location or lat/long |
Topoquest Free Topo Maps | USGS 24K, listed by state |
Another source of free Topo Maps | Libre free map project, maps the same as those in Topoquest? |
More recent free topo maps | I prefer the older maps |
Garmin | Maps and devices |
Delorme | Maps and devices |
Link | Description |
Timescapes | Amazing videos, forum |
Cinema5D | Reviews |
Creative Cow | Forum |
Digital Video Information Network | Excellent forum |
Road conditions | Contains videos of many roads in the southwest |
Zacuto | DSLR rigs and loupes |
GoPro | Ultrawide for cars, motorcycles, sports |
DJI Phantom | Quadcopter for aerial sots |
USA Road Trip | Waterholes Bend video shot with the DJI Phantom and GoPro |
This page last updated 2/10/2021