Common online advice is that it is important to color calibrate your monitors. But if you are like me, you probably have struggled to get through this. In this post, I’m going to talk about my attempts to get my monitors
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This post is part 2 in a series about Greenland Part 1 is the intro and can be found here. This post will give some background on how I ended up on this trip, but will mostly discuss the gear required for
In September of 2017 I had the opportunity to spend 10 days in the arctic on the east coast of Greenland. This post is the first in a series about that trip. Getting There Greenland is a difficult place to get
As a follow-up to my earlier post in which I talk about liking photography workshops, here are some recommendations for picking a photography workshop. While this is focused on landscape / outdoor photography, much of the thoughts can apply to other forms
As promised in the 2020 year in review, I have been working on site-wide updates. Due to a bug in how my host was linking my install to my account, I had to do a reinstall. After the reinstall, I imported
Every year I try to do a lookback at the previous calendar year and how my photography went. For previous years posts, see the Year in Review category. It is now 2021 and the previous year was 2020. In 2020, I did
This post is an expansion of my previous post about the compulsion to click the shutter. Much of the inspiration for this post came from a friend who last year went to London for the first time. She made a big deal
As I have a lot of time due to the COVIDs, I wanted to bring back an old type of post – Things I Like/Enjoy. I know this may not be a strange thing to say, but, I enjoy photo workshops. This
Note: This post was started, but never finished, several years ago and references an event that occurred on January 1, 2017. Due to the lock-down, I have lots of time on my hands. As a result, I’m working on finishing some of
This is a quick post on how I know what stuff is ‘mine’ as quickly as possible. About 4 years ago, I was on a trip where I anticipated that everyone would have similar items. I wanted to ensure that I could
While I do not intend to make this a travel blog, I do have a lot of travel tips that I would like to share. Paper, especially printouts of your reservations, is something I never travel without. Whenever I am going on
I am a baseball fan. And at risk of alienating many of the readers, I am a Phillies fan. I have had the chance to tour the Citizens Bank Park twice. During my most recent trip, I brought my D850, about a
I always like to put a technical look into the year before and try to summarize it in the first 3 months of the following year. The Technical Stuff In 2019, I created 21,940 photos and about 48 videos. This makes 2019
For a Thursday, here is a quick travel tip: When in a new city, always carry the business card of your hotel. This is a travel trip that I have never seen elsewhere. Everyone who uses this tip always thanks me. If
Better late than never. A look-back at 2018 and the photos I took during that year, from a technical an analytical perspective. I originally wrote this in February of this year, but never published it. I’ve done light editing, but left the
Just got an email saying that Flickr is being acquired by SmugMug. Since I was about to open a SmugMug, good timing! Let’s see how this goes.
I’m currently working on finishing up something that was requested of me a few years ago. I’m working on what looks to be a 2-3 part post on traveling super light on a photo trip, based on my rafting trip down the
In what I hope to make an annual thing, I’d like to use this post to look back over 2017. The travels, what cameras/lenses I favored, and what my favorite images of the year are. Here we go, starting with the most
The inspiration for this post comes from my father. In a recent conversation, my father said that he would never visit Australia, simply because he never wanted another 15 hour flight. I showed him how you can get to Australia without any
I recently traveled on American Airlines and I discovered something interesting. I live in Seattle, and as a result, I have a Frequent Flyer card for Alaska Airlines. Alaska and American have a new partnership. As a result of this partnership, having