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
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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
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
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
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
As a quick post, I’m going to mention something that everyone seems to have difficulty with. This is a little math-heavy and I’ll try to simplify it. F/stop progressions. Why do I have to double my shutter speed when going from F/2.0
Happy New Year everyone! This is going to be a quick post about photographing fireworks, and making the best of what you get. It also includes some tips for people who just want to go to bed early. Tip #1 – Arrive
I was recently fortunate enough to be able to travel down the Colorado river and photograph the Grand Canyon. One of the lunch stops on this trip was at Matkatamiba Canyon, which is at mile 148, just before the Matkatamiba Rapids. Our
2021 update Hello new visitor – while this post is almost 5 years old, everything should still be correct. The original version also references a plugin from regex.info. This plugin has been updated significantly since I wrote this post back in 2016,
This post is my thoughts on this well intended, but slightly misguided, post on Digital Photography School. NOTE – this post was written in June of 2016, if something changes, updates will be noted here. Personally, I always shoot at 14-bit Compressed
Hello Everyone. This past weekend, I came up with an idea for an experiment with time. I was sitting in my apartment, watching storms pass by, thinking to myself “it would be really neat to make a timelapse of these passing storms”.
This is a post I’ve been wanting to work on for a long time. This will be a much more technical post than normal. Sometime I may write more about how I specifically use Keywords. But first, some background information on how