C.H.Diegel Photography

C.H.Diegel Photography Fine Art Photography from the Green Mountains of Vermont. Owner of The Artisan Shop At Iris Lane Studios.

06/13/2026

Crepuscular rays over the Adirondack Mountains on a beautiful September evening in Bolton, Vermont.

I had some requests for prints of my Montreal skyline image, so it’s now live on my website. You can find a link in the ...
06/12/2026

I had some requests for prints of my Montreal skyline image, so it’s now live on my website. You can find a link in the comments below.

In some exciting news to go along with that announcement, shipping to Canada is now available on my website for my friends north of the border.

06/11/2026

I haven’t done much astrophotography in recent memory, but after the Montreal skyline mission, I found myself at Sterling Pond under a crystal-clear ocean of stars. There was a slight chance of aurora activity, so I decided to hang out for a few hours and see if anything would come of it. I packed dinner, so I set my camera up by the pond to shoot 30 frames at 18mm, 13 sec, f/2.8, ISO 3200 and sat down to enjoy some food. The aurora never did make an appearance, but I’m really happy with the results of this Milky Way image after stacking the frames in Starry Landscape Stacker.

06/11/2026

I had about an hour to kill at Sterling Pond before doing my Montreal skyline shoot earlier this week. There was zero wind; it was completely calm. That turned the pond’s surface into mirrored glass and also put me on the dinner menu for the local black fly population. I was grateful for the head net I keep in my camera bag during the buggy season.

06/10/2026

It was really exciting to see how well received my image of the Montreal skyline was. As promised, here is my “how-to” video so you can try to catch a view of the city yourself. The big question is, “Will I be able to see it with my naked eyes?” Under certain conditions, yes, it is possible, but you’ll get a much better view with a quality pair of binoculars or a telephoto lens for your camera. I’ve never tried photographing the city at dawn, so maybe I’ll have to give that a try. Or maybe one of you can check it out and get back to me.

06/09/2026

I hiked to the top of the Sterling Lift last night to capture a telephoto image of the Montreal skyline. I’ll bet a lot of you didn’t realize that Smugglers’ Notch Resort has a pretty decent view of the city if you catch it on the right day. I’m just counting the minutes before someone accuses this image of being AI 😂. I also filmed a video demonstrating how you can see the city from Smuggs, so stay tuned.

06/09/2026

Another image from my sunset hike to Sterling Pond last week. I’m hoping to return later this week and capture some telephoto images of the Montreal skyline from the nearby ski trails. Stay tuned!

06/08/2026

Among the hiking community, the dreaded black fly of the Northeast is legendary. Its well-earned infamy comes as no surprise, as I’ve seen grown adults reduced to tears after venturing into the mountains unprepared. Still, with a little knowledge and the right gear, there’s no reason you can’t enjoy a May or June hike in northern New England. Do you have any tips or tricks of your own for surviving the buggy season? Put them in the comments below.

06/08/2026

One of my favorite Vermont photography locations is on the South Hero end of the Lake Champlain Causeway. I discovered this spot while scouting locations on the Champlain Islands and was lucky enough to hook up with an incredible stormy sunset that very same day. A thunderstorm blowing out right at sunset or sunrise is likely to produce some dramatic lighting.

Getting great conditions on my very first visit to a location is as exciting as it is rare. Many of my images come from returning to a spot over and over again until I get the shot I want. One example would be the summit of Camels Hump. Though I’ve captured many good images from the peak, I’ve never gotten one that I really love and am proud of. The hiking season is young, so maybe this summer will finally be the one.

06/07/2026

I had a request recently for some photos of Lake Dunmore, so I thought I’d dive back into this photo shoot from 2014 on Rattlesnake Cliffs. I was fortunate enough to catch a real burner of a sunset that lit everything up in crimson. When you combine that kind of light with fall foliage colors, the results can be otherworldly. The colors in the original scene were so intense that I actually had to pull the saturation down significantly when processing the image.

No matter how good your equipment and camera skills are, a digital sensor is never going to see color in the same way our eyes do. That’s why I try to take a mental picture of the scene I’m photographing while I’m on location and then use that visualization when I’m post-processing the image. In that way, color in digital photography is always somewhat of an interpretation. There’s no baseline that says, “This is how it really looked,” and even if I try to reproduce those colors as naturally as possible, there will still be some of me in that image because I’m working from my memory of how the scene looked.

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