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 ... ]
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 ... ]
Luminar 2018 Image Editing – Vignette Filter
The latest video installment about the fantastic image editing software called Luminar 2018 from the Skylum company. In this video, I highlight one small, yet key, filter that I use on every image I [ read more ... ]
Luminar 2018 Photo Editing Video – Preset Overview
Just completed a new video for the image editing software Luminar 2018 from the Skylum software company. As I am diving in to learning Luminar as a possible replacement for Adobe Lightroom, I am creating [ read more ... ]
Loving Our Parks To Death
A couple of recent announcements has once again brought to the forefront how much we are loving our National Parks and other scenic areas to death and causing our government to step in and try [ read more ... ]
Preserve memories by printing your photographs
I just wrote a recent post about how I create a book each year with the best of my images from the previous year. It's a way for me to preserve and reflect on what [ read more ... ]
Installing Luminar 2018 as a Plug-In
As I continue to explore the new software called Luminar 2018 from Skylum, one of the first things I did was install it as plug-in to Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop (both from the Adobe [ read more ... ]
What is the Right Tripod for Me?
With all the chatter about gear on the various forums and websites, there usually isn't too much talk or comparison of tripods, which I think is a bit of a shame because they are, or [ read more ... ]