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Featuring the some favorite images produced by Adventure Travel photographer Michael DeYoung

A Year in Images – My 20 Favorite 2020 Adventures
My favorite subjects to shoot are action and adventure outdoors. I feel like I never get enough opportunities to do this. I thrive on the unpredictable outcome of action work and love the challenge using all your photo skills at once and making lightning fast...

A Year in Images – My 20 Favorites 2020 Landscapes
We are very fortunate to live and work in areas that are sparsely populated and easy to follow protocols during this pandemic. As usual, we spent August and September in Alaska, as this is necessary work for us. We felt safe on our flights and were fully supportive of...

A Year in Images – Best of 2019 Adventures
This blog features 19 of my favorite images from 2019 adventures. They included a 343 mile hike through the Washington Cascades on the Pacific Crest Trail, two remote multi day backpack trips to the Grand Canyon, an overnight Rim to Rim to Rim Grand Canyon Hike, a...

A Year in Images – Best of 2019 Landscapes
From 9,700 edited images from 2019, which is about 25% of what I shot, I struggled to pick 1 landscape image from each month that I felt represented some of my best work. This is always a great exercise for photographers to do. My mantra as an adventure and travel...

A Year In Images – Top 12 for 2018
Why do I do this to myself? As of this writing on Dec 17, my image count for 2018 so far, which only includes the edited files in my Lightroom Library stands at 15,088. Any photographer can understand the agony of having to pick a baker’s dozen from 15k. These...

Michael DeYoung: TruLife® Acrylic Feature Photographer Interview
I recently ordered a couple of prints using the TruLife® Acrylic face mount and I love the way they make my prints look. TruVue reached out to me regarding one of those prints, interviewed me about the image (Turnagain Arm Lupine) and is featuring the interview on...

Beyond The Corridor: What’s it like to backpack the Grand Canyon backcountry? What gear do you need?
This blog features our April, 2017 trip: Tanner to Hance Rapid via the Escalante Route continuing on the Tonto Trail to South Kaibab Trail back to rim. Total distance: 54.5 miles over 7 days. Day 1 and 7 were half days. Total drop down Tanner Trail is 4,650’. Day 7...

Pacific Crest Trail Personal Portrait Project
PACIFIC CREST TRAIL HIKER PORTRAITS. Here, finally, I am posting a collection of hiker portraits as personal photo project. Some of these images have already been published on previous posts from my PCT 2016 hike. I hiked the trail with a new camera, a Sony A6300 with...

Best Of 2016 – New Mexico to Alaska and Points In Between
In this post I am showcasing a selection of my most memorable images of 2016. Each one has an expanded caption providing context on how the image came to be. Are these really my “best” images of the year? Hard to say. The hardest part in doing a “best of” series is...

Favorite Images of 2013
This is the longest blog I've put out so far. Hopefully it is broken down into easy to read segments. It is about my favorite images for 2013. Usually my editors or my clients choose the best of my images and trust me, this is a good thing. This time I am choosing my...