Wait, a photo contest? Today I received an e-mail about a photo contest, with the final deadline quite near. I thought ‘hey, maybe I should apply’ and then spent a few hours getting ready and making sure I followed the rules.
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Part 3 What is it like to live on a boat for 10 days? (only took 3 years!) While I spoke briefly about this in Part 1, this post will elaborate on what the experience is really like. I’ve also decided to
This will be a bit more technical than normal. This is also the post that has taken me the longest to get correct. I think I started this this post 4 years ago. I have a lot of photos. My first
Quick post – I’ve started a new series on Instagram of images from the archive that don’t have an obvious location. Come and say hi, this is going to keep going for another 10-15 days! View this post on Instagram
6 months ago when I starting writing this post, I was in an area of Ohio with low cell service. It was nice. But this place is recently on the map and it is getting crowded, But at least for
Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went. It gives me a chance to reflect on what I managed to do, and get my plans together for the next year. Since
Let’s not bury the lead – I’m working on a new store for photos at a place called Society6. Check it out yourself here. (Opens in a new window and uses my own redirect service) It is only a free plan for
Prompt: “write a blog post for me on photography” —– Photography is the art of capturing light with a camera to create a visual representation of the world around us. It’s a medium that allows us to freeze a moment in time,
Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went. For previous years posts, see the Year in Review category. It is now 2022 and the previous year was 2021. In 2021, I
Common online advice is that it is important to color calibrate your monitors. But if you are like me, you probably have struggled to get through this. In this post, I’m going to talk about my attempts to get my monitors
This post is part 2 in a series about Greenland Part 1 is the intro and can be found here. This post will give some background on how I ended up on this trip, but will mostly discuss the gear required for
In September of 2017 I had the opportunity to spend 10 days in the arctic on the east coast of Greenland. This post is the first in a series about that trip. Getting There Greenland is a difficult place to get
As a follow-up to my earlier post in which I talk about liking photography workshops, here are some recommendations for picking a photography workshop. While this is focused on landscape / outdoor photography, much of the thoughts can apply to other forms
Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went. For previous years posts, see the Year in Review category. It is now 2021 and the previous year was 2020. In 2020, I did
This post is an expansion of my previous post about the compulsion to click the shutter. Much of the inspiration for this post came from a friend who last year went to London for the first time. She made a big deal
As I have a lot of time due to the COVIDs, I wanted to bring back an old type of post – Things I Like/Enjoy. I know this may not be a strange thing to say, but, I enjoy photo workshops. This
Note: This post was started, but never finished, several years ago and references an event that occurred on January 1, 2017. Due to the lock-down, I have lots of time on my hands. As a result, I’m working on finishing some of
I am a baseball fan. And at risk of alienating many of the readers, I am a Phillies fan. I have had the chance to tour the Citizens Bank Park twice. During my most recent trip, I brought my D850, about a
In what I hope to make an annual thing, I’d like to use this post to look back over 2017. The travels, what cameras/lenses I favored, and what my favorite images of the year are. Here we go, starting with the most
As a quick post, I’m going to mention something that everyone seems to have difficulty with. This is a little math-heavy and I’ll try to simplify it. F/stop progressions. Why do I have to double my shutter speed when going from F/2.0