Backpacking With a Toddler
Recently, my wife and I took our two-year-old son on his first backpacking trip. We spent four nights in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, hiking 22 miles round trip to Shadow Lake, just west of the famous Cirque of the Towers. Are we crazy? Maybe....
Acadia National Park in Spring
Photo: Colorful rocks that more resemble marbles more than rocks at Little Hunters Beach – Acadia National Park, Maine In May of this year I had an opportunity to spend a few days in Acadia National Park. If you are not familiar with the area it’s in the...
Advice for the Coffee Nerd Photographer
I have to admit, I am a bit of a coffee nerd. I am pretty picky about my morning coffee. Also, if you don’t know me, I get really into the things that I love 🙂 I have tried pretty much all of the options for the outdoor coffee enthusiast so I thought I would...
Needle In The Haystack – Finding Imperfections On Large Prints
Note: Don’t scroll down right away if you want to “test” yourself on this post with the first set of images before looking over the second set. Recently I had over a dozen different photos printed for a project I am working on, many of them what I would...
Wildlife as Part of the Landscape
I don’t pretend to be a wildlife photographer; I do enjoy photographing wildlife and observing the behavior of animals in their habitat. If wildlife wanders into my landscape image I enjoy including it, and when I photograph wildlife I prefer to include it as part of...
Renewing Your Passion In Photography by Kevin McNeal
Ever since I began my photography interest in 2006, I fell in love with the notion of capturing incredible scenes with all the right conditions. As photographers have come to know, this is not easy. It means that you have to return to the same location several times...
To Look or Not to Look: Can You Find Yourself Through the Work of Other Photographers?
There are many photographers who worry that exposure to photographs by others will contaminate the purity of their own creative vision, that they will never find their own voice if they are working under the influence, so to speak. Creativity involves choice,...
Limiting Vantage Points – For Your Safety
It was a few summers ago I was photographing sunrise at Cape Kiwanda on the Oregon Coast. A place where you can easily sit mesmerized by the flow of the waves crashing into the earth toned cliffs. On the short “hike” to the end of cape I pass the usual...
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