Aspen Illusions T-Shirt

"Aspen Illusions" is a motion blur image taken in an Aspen Grove west of Bishop, California. This grove was just beginning to turn from green to yellow as I panned down with my camera from the top of the trees to the bottom using a long shutter speed. The effect becomes an abstract-looking image where the white tree trunks of the Aspens are still recognizable. The blue you see at the top of the image is the blue sky while the yellow color is from already-turning Aspens leaves in the background. I have many more of these similar images but no two are alike because of the speed at which I panned versus the camera angle at which each one was exposed.

Gary Johnson CPP, M.Photog. is a certified portrait and fine art landscape photographer who photographs on-location and has a portrait studio at his home in Sonora, California. Gary was voted the Union Democrat Newspaper's Readers Choice Award for "Best Photographer" in Tuolumne County for 2017, 2018 and 2019. Gary has been a member of the Professional Photographers of America since 2002 and earned his Masters of Photography degree in January of 2018. Gary holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Science and is retired after 32 years of teaching 7th and 8th grade science. “I first became interested in cameras when I taught black and white film photography to my students. I loved to see their amazement as an image appeared on...