Timeless Images In A Fleeting World
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 […]
Thoughts and prayers go out to the more than 1 million people under Hurricane Irma’s forced evacuation orders. I’m in the “cone of uncertainty,” although at 60 miles inland not as worried as those on the coast. The storm reminded me, however, that there are some times when it’s great to be photographing weather. This deadly tropical cyclone isn’t be one of them, […]
The Brilia BB-110C specs have promise, albeit somewhat limited by a guide number of 56 at ISO 100 through a 28 mm lens. Sounds pretty dim, I know, but when I could score one on sale recently I ordered. Bare bulb photography isn’t exactly a staple in my kind of work, but there are some situations where […]
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