Timeless Images In A Fleeting World
Spring has sprung, the weather’s great and the outdoor season is finally back. Now’s the time to reserve your campsites before yet another year goes by without family campfires, roasted marshmallows and smores all around. Parents, do it before the kids are gone, serving as public defenders, working with the Peace Corp in Africa, starting […]
I’ve yet to uncover scientific confirmation, but an occasional photo I’ve taken for Maverick Danes leads me to conclude that some members of a litter feel like they have embarrassing puppy siblings. Expressions of total disgust appear regularly in images when two or more are forced onto the same “stage,” although the displeasure is so […]
Photographically capturing the outdoor experience in a manner that convinces people life’s better outside—away from the TV, gaming stations and potentially devastating affects of the breakneck pace we keep today—is a huge challenge. The foods and smells that are often a favorite are particularly tough, one reason I’ve invested so much time and effort trying […]
The laws of physics are strictly enforced, but some of today’s photo software has the horsepower to outrun the man—sort of. My efforts at focus stacking a smore for my children’s book, The Year Santa Came Back, are a good example. Here’s a quick look at the process and why a return to the straight-and-narrow […]
I’ll spare you full details on assembly so you can just relax and enjoy this view of our Grandio Greenhouse at night. The photo’s not perfect, obviously, but here’s a look at how I took it. I’m confident just about anyone can improve on this hybrid strobist technique. Unless I’m wrong, I did a better […]
Everyone loves the sight and smell of marshmallows roasting over a campfire. Unfortunately, capturing one that conveyed the experience proved elusive for my children’s Christmas book under my self-imposed November deadline last year. Thankfully, Amazon.com lets you update/change your book, even The Year Santa Came Back in paperback. So I’m hard at work trying to […]
Children see better than adults. It doesn’t have anything to do with eyesight, either, and that fact forced me to slightly alter the stars for the cover of The Year Santa Came Back—although I don’t like most vastly modified images. I don’t, and won’t own a green screen. The unfortunate truth is that today’s hectic […]
Coming up with a cover photo is different. It needs plenty of room for words and it shouldn’t be colorfully confusing or vibrate with text. This is the naked cover for The Year Santa Came Back. It’s boring, I know, but there’s lots of room for words and graphics. The hard part is coming up […]
Here’s a deal hard to pass up if you know any young readers. You can download copies of the Kindle version of The Year Santa Came Back free this week (Dec. 13 to 17, 2017). Tell your friends, co-workers, teachers you know, kids on the block and in the family. With any luck it’ll help […]
It was probably 30 years ago when I was part of the Search & Rescue teams looking for a lost little girl on Christmas night, high atop the Santa Catalina Mountains just north of Tucson, AZ. The elevation rockets to 10,000 feet above sea level, not exactly the stereotypical view of Arizona. A terrible winter […]
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