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 ... ]
Packing for a Photo Trip
I know it's been a while since I wrote anything personally on the blog. Sorry! I've been so busy growing my photography business that I've not had a lot of time to sit down and [ read more ... ]
Back Up Photographs while Traveling
I just returned from a week long trip to Alaska, photographing grizzly bears in Katmai National Park. We were leading a workshop and had clients with us with varying levels of experience in both photography [ read more ... ]
More Experience – Fewer Frames
Do you pay attention to your photography and how you photograph? I sure do. I'm the sort of person who likes to see progress and to look back where I came from to take some [ read more ... ]
Natural Abstracts
I love shooting in the Palouse area of Eastern Washington. There is so much variety and creative possibilities. However, there is one thing that I really look forward to shooting and when i see something, [ read more ... ]
Podcast Episode 9 – Image Post Processing Workflow
We just released our latest episode of our landscape and nature photography podcast, called We Talk Photo. In this episode my co-host Jack Graham and I discuss some breaking photography news, safety outdoors and then [ read more ... ]