Photo Blog

Ski Magazine Photo Placement

The February issue of Ski Magazine has been good to me. Considering the climate of magazine publishing I am fortunate. Thank you Kerri Bascetta for recognizing my talent and using it to its full potential in your layout. Hilary Nangle  your words are right on target. The picture is huge across two pages and on [...]

Peace Love and Joy from Gary and Gwen

Sea Eagle Explorer kayak cataloge photo shoot

I wrangled up Nate Carona last Friday and we headed to the Truckee River in California to test and photograph Sea Eagle’s upgrade of the Explorer Kayak. This was the first opportunity to use my new Canon 5D mark II. We put in on the Truckee at Hirshdale and took out at Floristan this allowed [...]

The Maine White Water Rafting Industry Shoot

Gary Pearl Photography was hired this summer by Fieldstone Media to photograph the rafting industry in Maine. The client was the Maine State Tourism Department. The detail of my gig was to shoot Point Of View in the River, and in the rafts. My outfitters was Northern Outdoors, located in The Forks Maine. (The only [...]

The Owl and the Lightning

My wife Gwen and I had an amazing bird, and storm experience here in the Washoe Valley Tuesday evening. It hasn’t rained here since May, but, for the past five days we have had tremendous thunderstorms with frequent cloud to ground lightning,(they say it also goes from ground to cloud). Storms  to us now are [...]

The Camera Hunt

“Its just a light tight box with a hole in it” Quoted to me college, it’s accurate to a point. In film days it was right on. Now starting the second digital decade its much less poignant. Meaning that fancy high priced bells and whistles of the past meant little in capturing the great shot. [...]

The New Beginning

The new website is up! www.garypearlphotography.com . Thank you  Kristy Crabtree for the wonderful design and the great service.Its great working with you as this continues to evolve. Nice job interpreting my ideas and bringing them to fruition.  Also, I would like to thank Brett Simmons  for recommending Kristy to me and for instilling  a [...]

Humongusmooseamongus

Moose, Alces Alces, the icon of the north-woods is certainly my favorite mammal. The better part of the past decade have been spent in photographic pursuit of this magnificent beastie. All most all of my Moose photography has taken place in Maine. To the best of my knowledge Maine maintains the highest moose population in [...]

The Digital Decade Part I

The digital decade, at this point it is safe to declare it just that. In the past ten years I have given up film, gone digital, built a great biz, squandered a good part of that biz,(for a number of reasons), and now rebuilding that biz with exciting new technology and direction! Giving up film [...]

Digital Decade II and Wedding Photography

The Digital Decade( a phrase that I have coined to describe the digital transformation of the past 10 years) has influenced all aspects of photography. Commercial, retail, and amateur. Personally it has affected me in all those ways. In one way, was my wedding. Its an interesting story that unfolds in a similar way for [...]