John Pedersen Photography Blog
The written word can be as creative and artistic as a photograph. So I strive to write regular blog posts about my travels, gear reviews or just some thoughts that need to get out. I hope you find information, insight or inspiration through my blog.
ProGrade Memory Cards
You don't often hear much written or said about memory cards for cameras, drones, etc. Typically you just put in a card, shoot some images and offload the images on to your computer. The medium [ read more ... ]
Whidbey Island Monochrome Americana Photo Workshop
I recently joined Jack Graham Photography to teach a photo workshop on Whidbey Island Washington, focused on monochrome images capturing "Americana" of the island. The workshop was run in conjunction with the Pacific Northwest [ read more ... ]
Luminar Photo Processing – Deals
If you are in to photography and are looking for a fantastic way to quickly process your images, you need to look at Luminar software. I've been using it for the past year alongside Lightroom [ read more ... ]
Backyard Photography
Just a quick post as a reminder how easy and fun it can be to find images around your own yard. You don't have to travel long distances or endure pelting rainstorms to get great [ read more ... ]
Fall Colors in Silver Falls State Park
Whenever Fall rolls around and the leaves begin changing their color, I make plans for visiting several locations around my area to photograph the color. This year was no exception and I made several trips [ read more ... ]
Healing Power of Nature
As a landscape photographer, my preferred locations are in the beautiful locations in nature. And living in the Pacific Northwest, this whole area is amazing beautiful. I am very fortunate to have so many beautiful [ read more ... ]
Why a Fujifilm GFX?
I've been a long time Fuji X camera system aficionado, from the X-T1, X-E1, X-T2 and most recently the newly released X-T3. I've loved these cameras since they came out. The ergonomics, the logic for [ read more ... ]
Katmai Photo Workshop Video 2018
Jack Graham and myself led a successful workshop to Katmai National Park in Alaska to photograph the amazing Alaskan Brown Bear (grizzly) in it's natural habitat. I put together a short video with highlights from [ read more ... ]
Photographing Bears in Katmai NP Alaska
For the second year in a row we made the trip to the amazing state of Alaska to photograph the Alaskan Brown Bear feeding on salmon. The salmon run is the largest in the world [ read more ... ]