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...
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...
Does that Landscape Photograph Belong in a Museum?
While the end uses of documentary and commercial photographs are limitless, the photograph that exists for its own sake is traditionally destined for a wall. This tendency is especially true for fine art landscape photographs, which ordinarily end up within a private...
Pricing Your Photography Products… Refreshed
I originally wrote a very similar blog post back in early 2011. It’s been a long time yet the subject is still quite applicable. I thought I would dust it off and make some updates for readers that might not have been following our blog that far back. I can...
Variation Of Light In The Dolomites
I am writing from a mountain lodge in the Italian Dolomites on a trip with Photo Cascadia teammate, Erin Babnik, so this article will be short and sweet. We spent a couple days before our winter workshop photographing at the end of a small valley with dramatic peaks...
Sean Bagshaw’s Conversation With Matt Payne on F-Stop Collaborate and Listen
On November 20 I sat down (virtually) with Matt Payne to chat about landscape photography for his podcast, F-Stop Collaborate and Listen. We had a great time talking about a variety of topics including – Our respective journeys into landscape...
10 ESSENTIAL ITEMS I ALWAYS HAVE IN MY CAMERA BAG
I’m a huge fan of outdoor adventure! I love exploring wild places, being immersed in nature and photographing rare moments of natural beauty! I’ve had some amazing experiences and also had some close calls. I’ve learned some important lessons along the way. It...
Thoughts From a Juror
This year I was asked to be the juror for a show at a gallery in the Columbia River Gorge and after doing it felt it would be worth sharing some thoughts about it, mostly what went on in my head process and thought wise. Most of my experience to date has been...
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