Alert Underground Reader David twigged us to a set of cool aerial photographs of ocean fish.
See how a little altitude can make big fish look like minnows?

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The response to Part I of my Zen Photography Tips was gratifying; the resulting traffic pretty much hammered the Underground’s bandwidth limits (which I had to raise).
That’s good. That’s great. It means you know the path to better photography (like the path to a better cast) doesn’t necessarily run through a $1000 camera or $800 […]

Fly fishers compare every activity to fly fishing, though in this case, it’s possible outdoor photography actually is a lot like fly fishing.
Both thrive in the presence of a zen perspective; either can place you amidst stunning beauty; and neither reacts well to the application of brute force.

A closeup would have been nice, but the […]

This visual pun brought to you by Alert Underground Reader Sully (blame him). It’s a rare photo indeed — an Elk Hair Emerger in its native habitat:

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I stumbled across Gale Rainwater’s photography blog and Web site (actually, he stumbled across us), and I flipped over the work.
While it’s not fly fishing specific, it speaks to one of the things most of us fly fish for — the stunning, unspeakably beautiful outdoors.
It’s proof that craftsmanship still exists in the digital world. […]

Sure, snow’s beautiful, except when you’ve gotta shovel the stuff off the driveway.
Thankfully, you won’t see any pictures of that activity, but to start your day on a peaceful, fluffy foot, I give you a few pictures from yesterday’s Wonderdog Wanderings:
 
 

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Sunrise, front yard. 18 degrees.
Getting outside early in the morning means stinging skin and cold, clumsy hands.
Still, I find myself possessing photographic evidence that Winter in the mountains may not be warm or easy, but it is often spectacular.
Warmer
After a cold start to the year, the last several weeks have seen warmer afternoons, which just […]

I largely avoid fly fishing coffee table books. The problem? Fly fishing picture books typically attain a kind of artificial beauty, and do so at the expense of spontaneity, realism or soul.
Images are carefully arranged, styled and colored - to the point I’m witnessing the product of an advertising shoot instead of a real moment […]

It’s winter, and after a couple weeks of all work and no play, even the Trout Underground is getting a little fidgety.
Tomorrow I fish. But today I point you towards a stellar photography site: The FishEyeGuy.

Jammed with stunning underwater pictures of rainbow, brook, cutthroat and brown trout, it’s worth more than a few minutes of […]

Via Moldy Chum comes the kind of fish photo that we’d really like to see on a few magazine covers. Click the image above to see a whole series of these seriously odd, seriously entertaining pics.
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I’ve got a fishing report in the works, but for now, enjoy this photographic moment of zen (shot while walking the Wonderdog Thursday at dusk).

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