Photographing Dahlia Flowers
One of the highlights of late summer is photographing dahlia flowers. Typically the end of summer is a bit of a downtime for me photographically as the weather and foliage is not conducive to great [ read more ... ]
Challenge yourself to grow your creativity and photography
Challenge yourself to grow your creativity and photography....its a simple statement, but ofttimes hard to accomplish. I am a continual learner, I love being challenged and learning new things. It keeps life interesting and gives [ read more ... ]
Shoot What it Feels Like
There is a quote from David Alan Harvey that says, "don't shoot what it looks like, shoot what it feels like", which has always resonated with me for a variety of reasons. For us as [ read more ... ]
The Fog
One of the most exciting times for me to photograph is when The Fog comes around. No, I'm not talking about Karl the Fog (see twitter @karlthefog), I'm talking about real fog or heavy mist [ read more ... ]
NIK Collection3 Software Upgrade
NIK photo editing software just came out with an exciting upgrade, the NIK Collection3! If you don't use the NIK suite of tools, I suggest you take a look at it. It is intuitive and [ read more ... ]
Take a Visual Inventory
Visual Inventory is Critical One of my strongest pieces of advice to my clients and students is to take a visual inventory of your composition before you click the shutter button and then when you [ read more ... ]
Shoot the conditions, not the subject
One thing I tell my workshop attendees all of the time is to shoot the conditions, not the subject. That's not to say we don't need a compelling subject in our images, however, you need [ read more ... ]
Creating Calm Borders
How much do you pay attention to the edges of your composition, before AND after taking the image, and do you have calm borders? One of the lessons I was taught early on in [ read more ... ]
Vignette Your Images
We all have our own way of post-processing images and I'm not here to tell you the "right way", but I am here to say that the one thing I do to every single image [ read more ... ]
Shoot the Light
As photographers, we are often times trained to look for "subjects" and "stories" for our images and for the most part, there is some truth to that. However, light can also be a subject or [ read more ... ]