5 Stories and Tips for Earth Day 2019
The Earth is over 4.5 billion years old with over 8 billion human inhabitants. Despite how long our planet has been around and the thousands of years it’s sustained human life, it’s still the only known planet in our universe that can support life this way. Yep, it’s...
Please Don’t Tell Anyone
Back in the mid-80s I was canoeing an uncanoeable (is that a word?) river in Utah. I pulled my canoe for two days while walking in the water. The next day I found small channels where I could almost canoe for five minutes at a clip, and finally on the fourth day I...
Four (More) Compositional Patterns Worth Finding in Nature
In celebration of our tenth anniversary, we at Photo Cascadia are revisiting some of our favorite posts from the vast archives of educational content that we have produced since the team’s formation. For my first contribution to this retrospective series, I have...
Why Do I need to Calibrate My Monitor?
Why Do I Need to Calibrate my Monitor? I was building a presentation for a printing workshop I’m teaching with Sean Bagshaw next week and I thought I would share some thoughts on this subject. This is a practical guide, I want to keep it simple and not get bogged...
Remembering A Trip To Easter Island
This week I’m taking a look back at an article I wrote in 2016 called, Easter Island: Photographing The Last Place On Earth. It is hard to believe it has been three years since I had the opportunity to travel to this mythical and remote island with my friends,...
Shooting Wildflowers With Impact – Kevin McNeal
Mt Rainier From Tipsoo Lake One of the most challenging aspects of nature photography is shooting the subject of wildflowers successfully. There are many aspects to learn and nothing is more rewarding when the outcome is positive. I have made many mistakes over the...
Life After Fire – Wildfires and Landscape Photography
As often is the case today we are seeing people, animals and our landscape negatively impacted by the increasing wildfires. Gone are the days where it felt for most of us something that happens to other people or in some far off rural location. I am sure anyone...
Appreciating Those Fleeting Moments
As part of Photo Cascadia’s ten-year anniversary, we’re reposting some of our favorite blogs from the past. This one is from September of 2011 and it’s short, but I remember it being a difficult blog for me to write. Last week I was reminded of these words while...
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