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,...
Color Filters For Autumn Season
When it comes to color and impact, fall is full of opportunity. The season is an amazing time to create mood with color while capturing landscapes as they transform before one’s eyes. Trying to create an image about which I’m particularly passionate,...
Galen Rowell, the original adventurer photographer
One of the first figures in the world of landscape photography to inspire me was Galen Rowell. Although I started my journey into photography after the legendary landscape photographer, mountaineer, writer, and conservationist tragically passed away, his life and...
Scenes From Iceland
In my last travel video, I showed you some behind the scenes footage from a photo trip I took to the Faroe Islands with photographer friends Raynor Czerwinski and Josh Merrill. We spent a week on the islands and had a great adventure. But that was only half of the...
“Luck is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity”
This is a famous quote by the Roman philosopher Seneca, and it’s been a guiding principal in my photography as well as life in general. There is a misconception I hear a lot from people at art shows as well as online. People will say things like “Wow, what an...
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...
When Will Vandalism of our Treasured Locations Stop?
This summer I visited Cape Kiwanda in Pacific City, Oregon. It was my first time to the area in about four years, the longest stretch away as a photographer since my first visit over a decade ago. Shortly after my last visit the area become rather controversial with...
Backlighting – My Favorite Light
I love backlighting in landscape photography; it creates an inner glow to mountain flowers, fall leaves, and meadows or rim lighting around wildlife. Backlighting also accentuates morning mist, fog, smoke, and haze, and shooting into that kind of atmosphere will...
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