Vertical is a Portfolio Gallery that aims to look up rather than see across. Humans have this fundamental paradox in their view of the world. Humans are upright and vertical beings. Yet, their eyes are horizontal. This creates a conflict in how we perceive the world. Furthering this conflict is that our cameras are built to be used in landscape orientation. It is not innate for a person to tilt their camera 90 degrees to view a scene differently. Our computer monitors are usually horizontal. It is a misnomer to call these “portrait-oriented” images, as if this view is only appropriate making a portrait.
Changing the way we view a scene, to view it vertically, can vastly change a scene. Our sense of scale is much different. Tall objects shown to be even taller. The sky can be endless. The world just looks different.
Just like people have right or left-handedness, most people quickly adopt muscle memory for landscape-oriented images. By making your visualization ambidextrous, you can create something more powerful if the scene calls for it. Do it enough, and making images both horizontally and vertically will come naturally to you.
These images are a celebration of the vertical. Items that are tall, statuesque, or reach for the sky. Taking a moment to study each image and contemplate its vertical strength is time well spent.
Tall Trees is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Redwoods National and State Parks, California
Horsetail Falls is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Yosemite National Park, California
Path Forward is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Joshua Tree National Park, California
Half Dome, Twilight is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2013 at Yosemite National Park, California
Juniper and Monolith, Twilight is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2013 at Joshua Tree National Park, California
Blue Hen Falls and Alcove is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2014 at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
Point of Arches and Milky Way is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2014 at Olympic National Park, Washington
Sand Ridge is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2014 at Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at San Diego, California
Storm Line is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2016 at ,
DMM1 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Del Mar Mesa, California
Slot Canyon Within Slot Canyon is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2017 at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
Mini Mud Cave is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2017 at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California
JT57 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Joshua Tree National Park, California
Brandywine Falls is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Whistler, British Columbia
Forest Underneath is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Palomar Mountain State Park, California
Rolling Hills of Chaparral is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Cleveland National Forest, California
Sentinel's Expanse is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2017 at Cleveland National Forest, California
Quiet Canyon is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Sedona, Arizona
Lunar Eclipse Over Santee 2 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Santee, California
Quiet Lake is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Santee, California
SDR1 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at ,
LM4 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at ,
MC1 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at ,
HW4 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken 2019 at Oahu, Hawaii
CNF50 is a photograph by T.M. Schultze taken at Lake Henshaw, California
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- Big Sur
- Celestial
- Coastal California
- Desert In Black and White
- Deserts
- Desertscapes
- Exploring Joshua Tree
- Greater San Diego
- Laguna Mountains
- Modern Equivalents
- Monochromatics
- My Favorites
- Neighborhood Signs
- Northwest
- Old Roads
- Photos of the Month
- Rock Art
- San Diego’s East County
- Santee
- Santee Lakes
- States
- Themed
- Trips
- Vertical
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