Photography of Jason B. Hill

I anticipate having my photography site back online some time during Christmas break. While the site is being worked on, please check out the photos below. In short, I'm a semi-professional photographer (it pays for itself as a hobby, but does not provide most of my income) and have been shooting since 2001. I use both digital and film formats, with digital accounting for about 90% of what I do nowadays. For the past two years, I have used only open-source software (Ubuntu Linux, The GIMP, qtpfsgui, Hugin, etc.) for production.

Crystal Mill, Colorado

Northern Red Shafted Flicker		Ancient Pine Forest, Sweden
The Crystal Mill photo from Crystal, Colorado is a high dynamic range image composed from 5 photos, taken in September of 2009 with my Pentax K10D. The northern red shafted flicker photo was taken in Rocky Mountain National Park in July of 2009, and if you look closely you can see a chick in the tree. That image was taken with my K10D and 400mm lens, and 1/1250 seconds wasn't fast enough to freeze the wings. The photo of the ancient pine forest is from my 2003 visit to northern Sweden. The color saturation is a combination of the colors that often appear and linger around dusk close to the Arctic Circle in the summer months, and the properties of the Kodak E100VS film on which it was recorded.

Butterfly and Wildflowers

Hallett Peak Reflection

Maroon Bells, Colorado

The butterfly photo was captured in the Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness Area of Colorado in July of 2009. The Hallett Peak photo was captured by using the reflection of Nymph Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park (notice the floating lillypads). The last photo in the row above is an HDR image of the Maroon Bells at sunrise as seen from Maroon Lake in the Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness Area of Colorado in September of 2007. All of the photos in this row were taken with my Pentax K10D and various lenses. In the bottom row, the first photo was taken in 2006 overlooking the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont on a foggy summer morning. That photo was taken with my Samsung GX-1S. The center photo was taken in March of 2009 after a spring snowstorm buried Yosemite Valley, and after I waited at Tunnel View for 4 hours for the storm to clear (like it does only in Yosemite). After most of the photographers had left, and just before the sun went below the horizon, this scene happened. The photo is an HDR image of 3 photos. The final image was taken in the Indian Peaks in 2007, with my 1:1 100mm macro lens and Pentax K10D. The photo captures a waterdrop from a thunderstorm hanging on a pine needle and reflecting the background forest.

Northeast Kingdom, Vermont

Clearing Winter Storm, Tunnel View

Forest Reflection in Waterdrop