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Welcome to the Timothy Keeney Photography blog, where I share reflections on landscape, the creative process behind my work, and the places that have shaped it. These posts explore not just where I’ve been, but how I interpret and translate the experience of wild places into images.

Scale, Color, and Texture: The Different Languages of Iceland’s Waterfalls — Scale, Color, and Texture: The Different Languages of Iceland’s Waterfalls

Waterfalls are ingrained in the fabric of the Icelandic landscape. They are everywhere and number in the thousands, if not more.

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Waterfall Photography Tips: Essential Gear, Exposure Settings & Composition — Waterfall Photography Tips: Essential Gear, Exposure Settings & Composition

Waterfall photography blends technical control with creative exploration. In this guide, I break down the gear, exposure settings, and composition techniques I use to create fine art waterfall images.

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(Water)Fall in the Northeast — (Water)Fall in the Northeast

It’s no secret that fall is the time of year I look forward to most for photography and this year was no exception. I had to be in Denver for work during the third week in September so I planned my annual foliage hunting week off to occur just after that.

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Drone Maiden Flight — Drone Maiden Flight

I had been thinking about buying a drone for a while and after a bunch of research, I purchased a DJI Air 2S last September. The consensus seemed to be that the Air 2S was the best reasonably-priced drone for landscape photographers.

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Stuck on the Roan — Stuck on the Roan

I keep a note on my phone with a list of all of the photography locations I want to check out. One of the spots that had been on that list since moving to Glenwood is the Roan Plateau. Located just north of I-70 between Rifle and Parachute, it is an outdoor paradise hiding in plain sight.

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Most Wonderful Time of the Year — Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I’ve learned that my memories of the first time I see or experience something always are the most vivid and I tend to judge all subsequent experiences by that “first time”. Fall of 2016 in Colorado was that way for me.

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Return to Iceland Part 2: The Highland — Return to Iceland Part 2: The Highland

I met Thor, my guide, first thing in the morning at the hotel’s restaurant and we did a little game-planning and then headed out to our first stop: Háifoss. At 400 feet high, it is one of the tallest waterfalls in Iceland and the whole area couldn’t be more photogenic.

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Return to Iceland Part 1: The East — Return to Iceland Part 1: The East

Iceland was the last international trip I took before the pandemic - in September, 2019. As a photographer, I never really am not thinking about going back to Iceland, but I thought about it even more than normal during the early months of Covid, imagining how amazing it would be to be there without all of the tourists.

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Two Weeks on the Palouse — Two Weeks on the Palouse

Back in March, when I thought I would be returning to the office on June 1, I decided to plan a two week visit to Eastern Washington during the latter half of May to take advantage of my last little bit of locational freedom.

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Catching-Up — Catching-Up

I started this blog in late 2019 as part of an effort to get my photography business off the ground. Like many of you, much of the time between then and now has simultaneously dragged on and been a blur, with one Covid day bleeding into the next.

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Hiking to The Subway — Hiking to The Subway

I have to admit that I was preparing myself to be disappointed by Zion. Of course, it has so many beautiful and interesting spots, from mountain peaks to narrow, water-filled gorges, but it also has lots of crowds, a mandatory bus system, and the canyon itself faces in a direction that makes the lighting for photographs difficult for much of the year.

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Chesler Park Backpacking — Chesler Park Backpacking

When most people think of Canyonlands National Park, what comes to mind likely is the vast open landscape of the Island in the Sky District where the Colorado and Green Rivers have cut deep, wide canyons in the sandstone.

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