I wasn’t really sure what to expect from White Sands. I’ve seen the pictures, so I knew the possibilities. My co-leader Cliff Zenor had been there before though, so I wasn’t going in blind. I’d seen plenty of pictures of white dunes, Yucca, pink skies. And I saw all of these. What I didn’t expect […]
In early December, Cliff Zenor and I conducted a workshop at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. It was my first trip there but Cliff had visited before. We had a small group of folks, all eager to witness and photograph the birds of Bosque. One thing we kept hearing from frequent visitors is that […]
I’ve decided to change my workflow thanks to the new RAW model in Topaz Labs’ DeNoise AI 3.3.
Sitka is a treasure trove for outdoor and nature photographers. And it’s also one of my favorite places to go. Here’s a summary of what we found on my recent photo tour.
My July Olympic National Park photo tour, co-led with John Barclay, was the longest Olympic workshops I’ve ever done. I thought we might run out of locations, but as we ended, I realized we probably could have spent at least another day or two in the area. The first half, based out of Port Angeles, […]
I’ve written about hyperfocal focusing before, here and here. Briefly, hyperfocal focusing is a technique used in wide angle landscape photography to maximize the apparent focus from the closest object in the foreground to the most distant. Using a high f-stop number like f/16 or f/22, focus at a specific point (determined by a number […]
I put together my current pc way back in 2011. At that time, it kinda rocked. It has 6 cores in a fast processor and plenty of RAM. The motherboard was fairly high-end, but not so high-end that I choked on the price. All in all, I put together a decent pc in my existing […]
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