Photo Blog - Niebrugge Images

A bumble bee view of a California Poppy at the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, Mojave Desert, California.

This fun technique is one I would like to play around with some more this winter.  What I do is put my smallest extension tube on a wide angle lens.  This now gives me the ability to focus very close.  I basically have the lens sitting in the flower, and I’m able to focus on portions of the flower that are a mere fraction of an inch from the front of the lens.  With certain wide angle lenses, I can actually focus on the front of the lens. (more…)

Death Valley National Park, California.

Well continuing with the desert wildflower theme, here is a photo of Death Valley from the amazing winter of 2005.  Hard to imagine Death Valley with huge meadows of wildflowers, but this is what it was like that year.  Here are more Death Valley Photos.

I wanted to show the size of the desert candles from yesterday’s post - I needed a way to show scale, so I put my camera on self timer and sorta posed with the unique wildflowers. 

This is a pretty rare photo - not because it is hard to find desert candles, although it is - but it is more rare for me to be in front of the camera!

Desert Candle, Mojave Desert.

The Desert Candle has to be one of of the most unique wildflowers I have ever seen!  When back lit, the hollow shaft of these giant flowers exhibits a wonderful glow, they are really impressive.  I think they are fairly rare, I know I looked far and wide before finding a small patch in 2005, and its not like they are hard to miss!

Normally I love winter, but this year in Alaska we have had endless warm temperatures and rain - in the winter, rain is wasted precipitation in my opinion - it could be snow!  So I guess this spring like weather has got me thinking of spring wildflowers!

Wildflowers in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California in 2005.

The last two years in the desert Southwest have been bone dry.  Fortunately that all changed late last week. (more…)

McWay Creek Falls, Julia Pfeiffer-Burns State Park, Big Sur Coast, California.

Last year our free shipping offer was so popular, we have decided to do it again.  So for any order over $100, we will ship it for free via Priority Mail to anywhere in the United States - yes even Alaska and Hawaii. 

If you ordered prints during the last two months while we were traveling, and your order is just getting filled this week, you might think this is unfair to now read about this special - and we agree.  So, for any order over $100 placed during the last two months you will also receive the shipping for free.

So why McWay Falls?  No reason, but it has been a popular print.

Interesting rocks in the Mojave Desert last night after sunset.  I loved the glow on the rocks from the evening light and the purple earth shadow!

Right now (Friday afternoon) we are sitting in the Palm Springs airport waiting for the flight home.  We actually hit Anchorage at midnight and will drive home on Saturday during the daylight.  I hear the Seward Highway is in tough shape from all the snow. (more…)

Lake Tahoe, California.

This is from the California side of the lake, Emerald Bay to be exact. (more…)

We just received a copy of this Palm Springs Phone Book cover over the weekend, I thought it turned out pretty nice.  We spent a little time in the Palm Springs area two years ago, we hope to get back to the area this winter.

I was looking over the sales report that accompanied my most recent payment from Mira - one of my stock agencies, and was pleasantly surprised to see the above image was used in Time Magazine!  (more…)

The Borrego photo I posted a couple of days ago was the second best sunrise from our recent trip- this morning in San Diego was definitely the best! (more…)

This dark, gloomy photo of the Imperial Beach Pier kind of summed up my mood when I realized I some how lost the extended keywords to about 400 images!  Key-wording is about the only aspect of being a photographer that I don’t really like.  I now discovered something worse; re-key-wording the same images!  LOL.  O well. 

We have just finished converting, adjusting and key wording a little over 450 new pictures from our last trip.  It always feels good to have that completed, now we can start adding them to our photo website, and sending them off to our agencies and marketing outlets.  And that means we can start thinking about our next trip! (more…)

Most people who view a mature forest full of big beautiful trees would mistakenly call it an old growth forest.  To be an old growth forest, some of the big beautiful trees need to start falling down due to natural causes.  The fallen trees can block streams creating valuable habitat for fish and other animals, and the decomposing tree offers the forest other benefits.  This is why old growth forest is so important.

I read up on this a few years ago while visiting the redwoods and was determined to photograph an example of an old growth forest.  While out hiking one day I found this scene which I thought did just that. I knew this wouldn’t be a calendar or travel image, but we work with a number of text book companies and I thought they could use it.  So what does this have to do with Popular Photography? (more…)

Giant Panda at the San Diego Zoo. (more…)

This is a Peacock at the San Diego Zoo.  And I thought the Wood Duck were colorful!  (more…)

A visitor and gorilla share a brief glance at the San Diego Zoo.

The Pier at Imperial Beach, California.  I had all but given up on sunset when this bit of color appeared just before dark and saved the evening. 

This is the San Diego Skyline captured a little before sunrise this morning, just a few hours ago.  We have made two other very short trips to San Diego in recent years, and are hoping to add to our coverage of San Diego Photos on this trip.

Enjoying the sunset in Chula Vista, California. (more…)