I’m not sure I could survive without my bike. From short rides along the shore of West Seattle, to epic month-long bike tours in Chile, I love to ride. Here are some photos I took along the way.

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Watch a slideshow of these and additional mountain bike & cycling tours photos HERE

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Below you’ll find a growing selection of backcountry skiing photos, all of which are available as fine art photography prints.

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I just posted a quick update on our trip up to Whistler on backcountryskiphotos.com. No ski touring was had, but we did manage to spend a bit of time skate skiing at the new Olympic Park nordic center. And, I was able to capture this one shot before the weather turned, again.

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I’ve always been a huge fan of panoramic photos, especially as someone who is often outdoors trying to capture the immense landscapes here in the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately, because I’m often backcountry skiing or cycling or in a sea kayak, I often can’t afford to carry my tripod or simply don’t have the time to set it up. (I have to keep up with my friends you know!) Which means, if I want to capture a panoramic photograph, I really need to consider the landscape I’m in and how I’m going to photograph it without having to crop the hell out of it when I get home (and thereby reducing the quality of the photo.)

But this post isn’t necessarily about how to shoot a panoramic shot per se (I’m far from perfecting the skill of stitching multiple photos) but my experience with printing panoramic photographs using an 8-megapixel Canon Rebel XT digital camera and Epson R2400 photo printer. I’ve had no issues printing smaller panoramic images, such as 5×15 or 9×18. Despite only 8 megapixels and having to crop some of the image to get the panoramic look, any image noise has been pretty much undetectable.

As nice as these smaller prints are and look, I wanted to go larger. The reality is though, 8 megapixels isn’t a lot, especially when you start to think about printing something that is 24 inches or larger on the long side. I’ve printed a poster-size print of this skiing photograph and it came out great, but what was going to happen with a 12×36 panoramic image?

I’m happy to report the sea kayaking image below, printed at 12×36 using roll paper on my Epson R2400, came out pretty well, well enough to hang in a local coffee shop and one that I would feel comfortable selling.

So, the moral of the story is, don’t let the number of megapixels in your camera limit the size of your photograph prints. There are a couple Photoshop techniques to use to help salvage image quality when printing photos that are larger than the original size, the main being the use of the ‘bicubic smoother’, which I can touch on in a future post.

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First, the water lillies…taken the other day near Seattle’s arboretum as part of a workshop I was helping with while teamed up with Keron Psillas of the Art Wolfe gallery

Ain’t they pretty?

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Time for something new. A new look. A new blog. New posts. New reviews. New news. Fortunately the photographs are going to stay the same…well sort of. All photographs from Mackie Images are going to hosted at Photoshelter.com. Why? Because over the years I’ve often found myself at a bit of loss while trying to maintain and update where and how images are going to be posted. If I can’t figure out where my own photographs are, how is someone else going to find them?!?!

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