Do a Background Check

Do a Background Check

It is that time of the year for flower photography, at least for most of you. Not so up here in the cold climes of Vermont but else where many of you are scraping off the icy crust of inactivity lingering from this last winter and are out searching for wildflowers to...
A Bit of News

A Bit of News

I wanted to let everyone know that there are only a couple places left on both my Pacific Rim National Park workshop ( on Vancouver Island, Canada and on my Shooting Like a Pro workshop that I hold in my home area of Manchester, Vermont. The Pacific Rim National Park...
More on Phiddling

More on Phiddling

The larger concept with regards to fiddling around too much before taking a picture is that in the digital photography world a camera is nothing more than a device to capture data. That’s it. Picture taking is the process of capturing a good set of data. This...
Phiddling with Photography

Phiddling with Photography

One of the common things I see when doing workshops is how much phiddling, excuse me, fiddling goes on before a picture is taken. Fiddling, for those of you who aren’t familiar with this technical term, is the art of making unnecessary and ridiculously fine...
Harboring Abstract Thoughts

Harboring Abstract Thoughts

I just returned from a great workshop for the Rhode Island Photographic Society. We spent much of our time prowling around the beautiful coast of this little state, a coast that is more than 400 miles long! Two mornings we headed for the working harbor of Galilee and...
Wine Country

Wine Country

Looking for any excuse to get out of the protracted winter we have been having in Vermont, Claire and I headed out to California to scout and do some preliminary research for a book project on wine country. This is vacation photography, nothing serious. The book is...