The Urban Nature Photographer
I hope that everyone reading this is doing well during these unprecedented times. It’s certainly going to be a rough road here for many photographers in the short run yet the creativity and caring I see coming from those I know and those I don’t, is going to help...
Personal Development Book Reviews for Artists
** If you prefer listening instead of reading, we hope you enjoy the audio version of this article. Audio versions of some of our articles are a new addition to the blog. The audio you hear will be the person who wrote the post. We welcome any feedback on this new...
Photography Conferences for Outdoor Photographers: Why and Where
PC: (center) Mark Denney; (LC and LR): Jim Peterson Photographers who prefer to spend their time communing with nature may not see the value in traveling to an urban area and interacting with a large number of conference attendees there. When I first considered...
Your Hard-drive Will Fail… Eventually
4TB External backup drive and assortment of compact flash cards. Yes, I do still shoot intentionally at times with small sized cards! As Tom Keifer of wrote on a hit ballad in 1988, you “don’t know what you got till it’s gone”. You really...
From The Archives – Revisiting Prior Blog Posts in 2019
It’s hard to believe yet 2019 is the year Photo Cascadia celebrates our 10th anniversary! In May of 2009 Photo Cascadia was formed and our website launched not too far afterward. There are many things in this world that don’t make it to the 10 year mark...
Finding Your Niche
Finding Your Niche I recently met up with photographer Mike Moats, and remembered his story of photographing the Watchman in Zion National Park. He stood there with 150 other people photographing the same damn scene and realized he couldn’t compete with all of them,...
How to Decide if Your New Photo is Ready for the Eyes of the World
The fast-paced world of online photo sharing and the conveniences of digital development have combined to encourage increasingly rapid and frequent production of photographs, an approach that is very likely to favor quantity over quality. Indeed, most social media...
Photography – Learning the Hard Way
Most of what you see and read around photography talks about our successes and showcases only our best work. This isn’t surprising as we prefer to show off the good, not the bad, if are trying to capture another person’s split-second attention before the next shiny...
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