The Myth of Influence in Photography
“Geodescent” by Erin Babnik, Death Valley National Park (2019). CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE. Creating a high-quality photograph of sand dunes in Death Valley was no small accomplishment in 1932, the year that Willard Van Dyke produced his dunes image that now ...
Some Thoughts on Bear Safety
“Saint Mary Lake Sunrise” Glacier National Park, Montana Within the past two months, two separate campgrounds have been closed to tent camping due to bear encounters in Glacier National Park. While I was visiting Glacier this past July, the Many Glacier...
Looking Beyond Locations in Landscape Photography
“A double rainbow, all the way! What does it mean?!” (Paul Vasquez, in a viral YouTube video of 2010) A famous pair of Greek maxims inscribed over the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi urged visitors to nurture self knowledge and to exercise restraint: “Know...
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...
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