Heading to a nationwide park for some outside adventures? Likelihood is, photographer Galyna Andrushko has already conquered it – and has the pictures to show it.
Galyna is a panorama photographer and has been promoting pictures on inventory images (or ‘microstock’) web sites for over a decade. Acknowledged as one of many main nature photographers within the trade, Galyna grew to become excited about panorama images whereas mountain climbing within the mountains when she was a pupil. There, she discovered a want to seize and share the locations she noticed.
“The great thing about unspoiled landscapes amazed me, and I needed to share that magic with my household and buddies,” she explains. She says she loves the sweetness and perfection of pure shapes and particulars. One in every of her favourite images topics is desert landscapes, which she calls the “artwork of nature – form, coloration, gentle, and nothing further.”
For Galyna, creating and promoting inventory images permits her to share her imaginative and prescient with the world. She’s now a best-selling inventory photographer, with over 20,000 pictures in her portfolio. Though she’s travelled world wide, she returns to the nationwide parks in America usually (12 instances and counting!). She describes nationwide parks as “like an ideal artwork gallery, the place the perfect work are put all collectively… every of them is exclusive and worlds aside from one another even when they're solely 100 miles aside, like Bryce Canyon and Zion.”
Initially from the Ukraine, Galyna travels usually to take pictures. We requested her to inform us the story behind just a few of her favourite pictures in her portfolio:
Photographing in nature is totally different from a managed images studio. “Often I have a tendency to not e-book something for my journeys, as a result of whenever you’re a nature photographer, you don’t have a studio – you need to cooperate with Mom Nature,” says Galyna. “She gives correct gentle (or not); I present ‘promotion’ for her with my pictures (in addition to I can). Nevertheless it means you need to be versatile in your plans.”
This versatile strategy paid off throughout a visit to Katmai Nationwide Park in Alaska. She was heading to Brooks Camp, the preferred vacation spot within the park. Katmai Nationwide Park is volcanic panorama, and it’s additionally residence to hundreds of brown bears. After an unsuccessful try to e-book a campsite at Brooks Camp, Galyna and her workforce (of two) had deliberate to camp within the backcountry simply outdoors of Brooks Camp.
On the final minute, Galyna discovered a campsite within the park – and it’s fortunate they did. Within the early morning hours, they woke as much as a curious brown bear tearing by their tent!
This expertise would possibly scare off some, however not Galyna, who says it’s “actual magic how individuals and bears can stay subsequent to one another.”
“However we weren't so fortunate all over the place in that journey,” says Galyna. With foggy climate and misplaced baggage, their journey to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in south central Alaska was lower than superb, and Galyna was already planning her return journey when she returned residence to the Ukraine.
Armed with a automotive from Seattle and a few flexibility to attend for good climate, Galyna went again to Wrangell-St. Elias Nationwide Park, which she says was a ‘dream come true’: enormous mountains and glaciers, blue ponds, and wildlife all inside just a few miles of city.
Galyna and her workforce climbed Donoho Peak (pictured above), a steep day hike with rewarding views and among the most majestic mountains on the planet.
What’s subsequent for Galyna? She’s unsure about which park to go to subsequent, however says her plans embrace a hike into the deep wilderness. And we’ll be trying ahead to the pictures!
