Pretty Picture

Pretty Picture

Okay, a pretty picture to soften the last rant. Rant still stands but I didn’t want you to leave with that rattling around in your head. Taken in Acadia National Park between workshops. Looking south toward Otter Cliffs. Handheld because I was out for a wander....

I Don’t Get It

I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. Why would people pay to go on a workshop where the leader actively photographs? They are subsidizing the leader’s photography at THEIR expense!!! Workshops are teaching opportunities, participants are supposed to...
Acadia Sunrise

Acadia Sunrise

I know I never get sunrises on my workshops. That is true. But this wasn’t on my Acadia workshop, it was two days later. I used a Nikon 12-24mm lens at 12mm and put my tripod flat with the camera 10″ from the puddle. I used f22 and focused two feet from...
4-Wheel blind

4-Wheel blind

This is about as lazy as I can get and if I put my mind to it I can get pretty darn lazy! So here is the situation- For the past several weeks I have noticed all kinds of birds coming to the crabapple trees in my front yard eating the ripe fruit. When I first noticed...
Playing on the dark (and white) side

Playing on the dark (and white) side

I just came back from a PAW workshop to Glacier National Park with Moe Witschard. I was an observer, helping Moe and giving him some feed back on his teaching and workshop skills. I now have become the old codger leader, sharing my wisdom while gumming my food. But...