This weekend marked the first day of spring (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere anyway), which I think is truly a reason to celebrate as a photographer!It wasn’t all that long ago that the winter weather was hampering the efforts of many photographers to get out and take incredible images. Not that you […]
Earlier this month I captured what I consider to easily be the best bird photograph I’ve ever taken. I was co-leading a field photography workshop in southwest Florida with Canon Explorer of Light photographer Arthur Morris, visiting some of the best places to view and photograph birds around Fort Myers, Florida. One morning the group […]
We all know that weather predictions can be—shall we say—a little less than accurate. In fact, I’m sure we’ve all heard (or made) jokes about how inaccurate weather predictions seem to be, with many theories about the arbitrary ways meteorologists must go about predicting the weather.
I’m wrapped up with the third full day of photography […]
Sunshine can be so exhilarating after a few days of overcast, rain, watching the sky, and obsessing over weather forecasts to see when you’ll get some better weather for photography. Last night the forecast called for a lot of cloud cover this morning, but when I woke up and looked out my hotel room window, […]
Part of any photo excursion is dealing with environmental conditions as they change. The Palouse region of eastern Washington state is known as an arid region, getting an average of just under 20 inches of rain each year. That compares to an average of about 37 inches per year for Seattle. And yet, we’re getting […]
I love photographing while scouting for great locations much more than going somewhere I already know will be good. There’s so much more adventure when you don’t know what to expect, and I love the joy of discovering great subjects and locations that are new to me.
I’m in the Palouse region of eastern Washington state […]
I was sitting on my couch reading, trying to ignore the uncomfortable heat. It was about 9pm, the sun had just set, and the sky was turning an incredible pink, but somehow I wasn’t inspired to go outside. I think the head had stifled me and convinced me that staying in one place was […]
I can’t even fathom going on any trip — even a business trip — without a camera. In some extreme cases I’ll just take my point-and-shoot digital camera along with me, but whenever possible (which is most trips) I’ll bring my digital SLR along as well.
A tripod, however, can be a whole different matter. On […]
It is interesting to me how often I find myself taking a photograph of something interesting without having any idea what it really is. This makes it all the more exciting when I discover at a later date exactly what I had been photographing in the first place.
I had this experience a few years […]
There’s a weird time warp that happens when you write magazine articles. You get an assignment, and of course wait until the last minute to fulfil it, so there’s a bit of a lag there. Then you submit the article, and it is generally at least a couple months before it goes to press. […]