Fog and Forests!
Boy I love fog! As soon as the the clouds descend or the fog envelopes I head for the forest. The combination of fog and forest equals magical photography. The best part of fog in the forest is that the fog wipes out all the background so the forest becomes almost 1-dimensional and thus much […]
What is Your One Word?
I have doing some thinking lately, mostly of the odd, obtuse kind and have come up with an interesting photography question- What one word best describes your photography? This is a more nuanced question then first appears. It requires you to actually think (you all know how I love to get photographers to think!) about the […]
Photographing Uganda- what did and didn’t work
So how did the photography go in Uganda? I know you have been dying to ask, so here is what I did and what I would do differently. I used two cameras- My big Nikon D4 with my favorite 24-120mm lens and my new little Nikon P7800. The D4 stayed around my neck with accessories- […]
The Not So Obvious Composition
Most of the time composition is a pretty simple thing- it is a matter one short question and a few more easy rules (firm suggestions). The question is “what specifically do I like about what I am seeing” and the rules are 1. Answer the question with a phrase (no using the word ‘and’), keep […]
Jersey, My Way
Will you look at this! Cows that are neither black or white or black and white! They are brown!!!!! Who knew that cows came in colors? Why didn’t someone tell me? Okay, some photography for you purists out there- 70-200mm lens shot on the longer side, high overcast for nice soft […]
From out of the Clouds…
Sometimes everything works out. Not often, certainly not every day but sometimes, every once in a while, the Gods shine down upon you and the heavens open and…. And so it was in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland a week ago. I had three days in this high Alp paradise to see the mountains, three […]
Oregon Coast Workshop review
Another Oregon Coast Workshop has come and gone and another 14 people introduced to my curse of bad sunsets. Oh, well- Brenda and I do the best we can and the weather Gods just don’t cooperate. This is not to say that the participants didn’t get some spectacular images. They did! Despite some heavy clouds […]
Creating Compositions
I’m out in Colorado again for my last trip of this winter. It’s been gorgeous so I’ve been out stomping around the woods on my snowshoes for fun and exercise. This time of year when the snow is heavy and soft walking through the thick snow requires considerable effort so I didn’t bring my adult […]
Photographing Winter
Time for the annual ‘How to Photograph Winter’ report, something that is written every year and the same thing is written every time. So lets get the obvious suggestions out of the way with little else said: it’s cold so wear warm clothes- hat, gloves and boots; don’t take your camera from a warm humid […]
Twilight
Tis the season when our thoughts turn indoors and sugar plum fairies dance merrily on our photoshop keyboards. We really can’t be blamed. It’s cold outside! For the northern half of the country going outside during the pretty light of dawn and dusk means braving finger-freezing temperatures and turning our toasty tootsies to ice. For […]
