Ladakh in B&W

I made these photos in October 2018, when I visited Ladakh. It was a short photo trip while spending a few weeks with my parents and it is a location seared into my mind and can’t wait to go … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Alaska, minimal

Girdwood, Alsaka. 2018Turnagain Pass, Alaska. 2018Palmer, Alaska. 2018Palmer, Alaska. 2018Chugach Mountains, Alaska. 2018Palmer, Alaska. 2018Lion’s Head, Alaska. 2018Somewhere in Turnagain Ar… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

The look of a bespoke preset

Majd, 2015Paris 2015Tuscany, 2018Venice 2018Alessandro & family, 2018Tuscany, 2018Tuscany, 2018Oslo, 2017Mary, 2018Iceland, 2018Japan, 2017Svalbard, 2017Teresa, 2018Japan, 2015Hawaii, 2018 | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

That tree in Yosemite

That tree in Yosemite. Leica SL. ISO 400. Focal length 52mm. Aperture f/22. Shutterspeed 1/8th of a second. Yosemite 2018: I am pretty sure everyone has taken a photo of this tree in Yosemite. I me… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Snow in the Yosemite Valley

I recently visited Yosemite Valley to officiate a friend’s wedding. I got a chance to go out and make some photos — and here is a selection of photos from around the Valley. These were … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Trees in the snow

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@om.blog | 7 years ago

Abstractions

Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of my favorite photographers. While more people are drawn to the long exposures of living legend, Michael Kenna, Sugimoto’s work inspires me to think about long exposu… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Hello Felix

Felix Uribe is a dear friend an amazing photographer. This was a photo I made while discussing coffee at one of our favorite coffee spots. The name remains in shadows. Made with Leica SL & Leic… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Reflected Glory

Yellowstone National Park 2018: ISO 400. Aperture f/8. Shutter speed 1/200th of a second. Focal Length 50 mm. Made with #LeicaSL & Leica Vario-Elmarit 24-90 Lens. | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A foggy meadow in Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park 2018: ISO 200. Focal Length: 25mm. Aperture: f/4.5. Shutter speed: 1/400th of a second.  The second day of my visit to the YNPS was one of the best. We ran into a fog bank… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Fog, Snow, Alaska

Alaska 2017. Made with Leica SL. | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Iceland Dreaming

Iceland 2018: I woke up thinking about Iceland this morning. Not quite sure why, so decided to share this photo from a visit this past spring. It was a memorable trip with my homies, Mark and Matt. | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Let it snow

Yellowstone National Park 2018: ISO 250. Aperture f/3.2. Shutterspeed 1/125th of a second. Focal Length 132 mm.  Made with Leica SL & Leica Vario-Elmarit 90-280 Lens. One of the most memorable … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

The Silent Cliffs

San Francisco 2019: Sometimes when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. It was not such great light, but it was enough for a long long-exposure. By overexposing it a little bit, I saved myself… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

The Dam Lake

Jackson Lake Dam, Grand Tetons 2018: ISO 50. Focal Length 28mm. Aperture F/22. Shutter speed 1/8th of a second. #30daysofyellowstone | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

The Ocean Beyond

San Francisco 2019: Ocean Beach is one of my favorite locations to go and exercise my photography muscles. Sometimes you just need to keep making the same photo over and over again to stay in sync … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A Bridge over smooth waters

San Francisco, 2019: This image of Golden Gate Bridge made iPhoneXS using Slow Shutter Cam app. Edited with Darkroom App. #iphone | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Sometimes it is sunny in San Francsico​

San Francisco 2019: ISO 100. Aperture f4.5. Shutter speed: 1/800th of a second. Made with Leica CL & Leica 18mm (28mm equivalent lens.) | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A foggy morning in my neighborhood

San Francisco 2019: ISO 100. Aperture f4. Shutter speed: 1/500th of a second. Made with Leica CL & Leica 18mm (28mm equivalent lens.) Last week I received a loaner #LeicaCL camera from @leicaca… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

When it rains in San Francisco

San Francisco, January 11, 2019: It was a wet and rainy day in San Francisco. I was at the UCSF Parnassus Campus and in between tests, I got a chance to walk around and snap some photos with the lo… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A(lone) tree

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: ISO 2500. Focal Length 120mm Aperture f/10. ShutterSpeed: 1/125 sec. Made with Leica SL & Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280mm f/2.8-4 Lens #12 | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Its ​morning in the Tetons

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming: ISO 400. Focal Length 90mm Aperture f/5.6. ShutterSpeed: 1/500 sec. Made with Leica SL & Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 Lens #11 | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Gosh,​ Barn It!

Mormon Row, Wyoming: ISO 400. Focal Length 90mm Aperture f/9. ShutterSpeed: 1/85 sec. Made with Leica SL & Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 Lens #10 | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Waterworld

Yellowstone National Park, 2018: ISO 50. Focal Length 24mm Aperture f/9. ShutterSpeed: 1/125 sec. Made with Leica SL & Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f/2.8-4 Lens Looking at the Grand Prism… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Morning light on a misty mountain

Grand Tetons 2018: ISO 1000. Focal Length 145mm Aperture f/7. ShutterSpeed: 1/180 sec. Made with Leica SL & Leica APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280mm f/2.8-4 Lens Grand Tetons, Wyoming: One of the mo… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Bear Mountain, Grand Tetons

Bear Mountain, Grand Tetons National Park, Wyoming: ISO 50. Aperture f/8. Focal length 280mm and Shutter Speed, 1/500th of a second. #7 This is named Bear Mountain because Jake Davis told us about … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Tetons in a cloud

Grand Tetons: ISO 64. Focal length 280 mm. Aperture f/8 and Shutter Speed 1/250th of a second. This is #5 of my Yellowstone series. The photograph is of a mountain at the far end of the Jackson Lak… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Swan Lake

Yellowstone: ISO 50. Focal length 280 mm. Aperture f11 and Shutter Speed 1.3 seconds. This is #5 of my Yellowstone series. This photo came towards the end of a long day, and as the light got softer… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

The jagged edge

Yellowstone: ISO 100. Focal length 280 mm. Aperture f11 and Shutter Speed 2.5 seconds. Yellowstone National Park is one of the most photographed landscapes and for me, I needed to find a view into … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Grand Tetons, from the other side

Grand Tetons 2018 (as viewed from Idaho): ISO 50. Focal length 90 mm. Aperture f7 and Shutter Speed 1/160 of a second. This is third of my Yellowstone series. For me the magic of the trip was essen… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

When a Bison walks in!

Bison in Tetons. Jackson, Wyoming. December 2018. Made with Leica SL & Leica Vario 90-280 lens. ISO 400. Focal Length 280mm. Aperture f/5.0 & Shutter speed of 1/800th of a second. Grand Tet… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

30 days of Yellowstone (photos)

National Elk Refuge, Jackson, Wyoming. December 2018. Made with Leica SL & Leica Vario 90-280 lens. Aperture f/10. Focal Length 250mm. Shutter speeds 1/500th of a second. ISO 400. Grand Tetons,… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Scenes from Yellowstone

Mooooooose!!!Sunrises are spectacular in YellowstoneMormon RowIts morning in MontanaPimp mn Snow RideBison JamCoyote NationSwani or Swami?Wanna piece of me?Upside down!Remains of a dayEven Bison ne… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A Master at work

Chris Michel, Grand Teton Park, Wyoming. Made with Lecia SL using the Leica 24-90 lens. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming 2018: Life’s greatest gift is friendships and bonds you form as a result. … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

The Road Ahead

Maine 2018. Made with Mamiya 6 and Kodak Portra 400. f3.5 using a 50mm equivalent lens, and 1/80th of a second. “What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

California Palms

San Clemente, Calif. 2017: Sunrise surf in the waters off the shore of San Clemente. Made with Leica M-Monochrome (M246) and Lecia Summicron f2/50mm. Aperture f 3.4 and expsoure time 1/500th of a s… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A brush with Maine

Maine 2018: Another one from Maine series. There was something about this boggy side of the road that made us stop and look and capture this beautiful location. When I was pressing the shutter butt… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Foggy San Francisco Mornings

San Francisco, December 2018: Sometimes all you need is the iPhone (XS) and a great app like Halide to capture the perfect sunrise on way to a cup of coffee. And it also helps if one has an editing… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Horsing around in Iceland

Icelandic horses are such gentle giants and whenever I am in one of my favorite places in the world, I spend a lot of time making photos of these beautiful creatures. I came across this horse famil… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Remains of a bay

Made with Fujifilm xPro2. f1.4/23mm (35mm on full frame) lens. Exposure time 1/10th of a second. Aperture f16 and ISO 200.  San Francisco 2018: Yesterday was one of the foggiest days in recent memo… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A boat, a bridge and some fog

San Francisco 2018: Late November fog has returned to the city and is throwing up opportunities for some minimal photos. Made with iPhone XS, Halide App and edited with Darkroom.  | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Autumn Leaves

Maine 2018. Made with Mamiya 6 and Kodak Portra 400. Aperture 3.5. Shutterspeed 1/250th of a second.  Since you went away the days grow longAnd soon I’ll hear old winter’s songBut I mis… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Nitelights

Nitelights. San Francisco 2015. Made with Leica M240 with f2/50mm Summicron. Aperture f4, shutter speed 1/8th of a second. ISO 200. | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A boat in silent waters

Maine 2018. Made with Mamiya 6, with Kodak Portra 400. Aperture f 3.5. Shutter speed 1/250th of a second. (Cross posted to Instagram) “Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

In Sugimoto I trust

Naoshima, Japan: A photo inspired by Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seascapes. Made with Leica Q & 28mm Summilux in September 2015. Aperture 5.6. ISO 100. Shutter speed 1/1000s of a second.  | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

A Sunset in Maine

Cape Elizabeth is just a few miles from downtown Portland and is a perfect place for watching the sun go down. Made with Mamiya 7 & 75 mm lens. Film: Kodak Portra 160. Aperture 3.5. Shutterspee… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Happy Thanksgiving

The only day I can handle eating pumpkin, my least favorite thing in the vegettable preiodic table. Made with Mamiya 6 using the 75 mm (50 mm in full-frame terms) lens. Aperture 3.5. Shutterspeed 1… | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago

Confluence

One of the most magical sights — at least for me — is the confluence of Rivers Indus and Zanskar. The two rivers have very distinct colors, whether you are looking down from the mountain road that … | Continue reading


@om.blog | 7 years ago