Jacob Newell Photography

12/29/2021

“We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.”

12/27/2021

“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”

12/24/2021

“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”

Shot in 2017

12/22/2021

“Ah, the outdoors,' Shallan said. 'I visited that mythical place once.”

Shot in 2018

12/20/2021

"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind."
"What does the story mean, then?"
"It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”

Shot in 2018

09/13/2021

My sunset shots are always the result of a bit of luck, but I was actually a bit unlucky on this night - I got to the location late, so I missed the “best” of the sunset colors.

Even though it’s not theoretically the perfect time to take a photo, I ended up really loving this blue hour shot. I love the pastel colors in the sky, along with the crazy texture in the cliff face and the dark shadows in the valley.

There are so many epic desert formations in Utah, and this was one of the main places I didn’t want to miss. This spot requires a bit of off-roading, actually one of the longest segments of off-roading I did in Utah.

I camped out here that night, slept in my car and made dinner on my portable stove, and also captured the milky way here later that night. “Pimping” out the rear of my car to enable me to live out of it has really upped my night-shoot game, and has made longer “photography” roadtrips really affordable!

Have any of you lived out of your car for a period of time, or have any of you turned to van-life like so many people did during the pandemic?

I would love to hear about it, let me know in the comments!

06/10/2021

These mountains are iconic to the Patagonia region (and are also the literal icon of the Patagonia clothing brand). Patagonia is split between the two countries of Chile and Argentina, and this is on the Argentina side. There’s a super small town at the base of these mountains that I was staying in, and I biked about 4 miles outside of that town and away from the mountains to get this view. There was very little traffic coming and going, so I was able to stand in the middle of the road and bike all around as I searched for the best composition for a photo. I never replace the sky in my photos, I always aim to capture the real beauty that I’m seeing as I stand there. This was actually the second night that I biked out to this spot because the first night the colors in the sky weren’t quite as vibrant.

05/27/2021

I spotted these two adorable foxes as we were driving the back roads toward Torres del Paine National Park in the Chile part of Patagonia. Once we had parked a little ways up the road from them, I ran back with my tripod as quietly as I could and used a long lens to get this shot. I always stay super far away from wildlife so that I don’t disturb them. This is a mom and her pup, and you can see the cave in the rock that they live in in the background of this photo. I watched these two for over half an hour, and took countless photos of them. I got really lucky with capturing wild animals in Patagonia, partially because there are just so many wild animals there. Awesome experience.

05/15/2021

This was the first location I went to on my Utah trip - definitely started off the trip on a good foot! This is from the Dead Horse Point Overlook in Dead Horse Point State Park - this is a strategy of mine where I go to a frequently photographed spot and then look in the opposite direction of the usual shot. Another bonus to looking in this direction is that sunset was in this direction, and I got super lucky with this beautiful sky. I never superimpose or replace the sky in my photos, so I rely a lot on timing the sunset correctly and just getting lucky! The next day it was super cloudy and rainy in this area, so my trip here was timed perfectly.

05/13/2021

In order to get to this spot, I joined an overnight expedition for White Pocket (part of the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona) because driving around this area can be pretty difficult terrain - very sandy and a lot of areas where a personal vehicle would probably get stuck. There are several theories of how these formations came to be: they were probably sand dunes during the Jurassic period, and then perhaps became fossilized underwater or at some point hardened into rock.

No matter how they came to be, it’s a super unique sight. We had storm-level winds that were blasting us with sand for hours leading up to this shot, but luckily those winds calmed down in time for this milky way shot around 4am. We got up at 2am to hike out to this spot from our camp, stayed up all the way through sunrise (for more shots which you’ll see soon!) and all the next day for exploring.

04/01/2021