This photo shoot planning form was a project that I was working on for the students of my photography workshops. Seems like it’s a good time to make it available to everyone. While we might not be able to travel, we can still dream. This form will help with that. When I made this, I
Since we’re all stuck inside and doing meetings on Zoom, it’s time to roll out a few fun and free Zoom backgrounds from the North Shore for you to use. If you haven’t used Zoom background before, they are an easy way to hide the mess behind you, celebrate locations that you love and personalize
This is a little different than usual for me, but I often sleep in my car for photography. That makes this sort of relevant. The reason that I have a Subaru Outback is because it was long enough for me to sleep in with the rear seats down. That lets me wake up and drive
One of the things that I’ve learned working as an outdoor professional and outdoor educator for the last 15 – 16 years and as an outdoor enthusiast for most my life is how to manage risk. Not everyone understands risk, and I’ve seen risky behavior from many outdoor photographers who didn’t learn to manage risk.
One of the things that I’ve been thinking about lately is, when is it a photography project? After several years, I’ve reached my goal of over 50 found bikes for my Found Bike Project. I’m continuing that project onward. I’ve also formed another project idea in my mind, but I’m not sure when it becomes
Every year, I like to look back at my work and evaluate how I did as an artist and see if or how my work progressed. Looking back at my 2018 recap, it seems like I was feeling optimistic. While 2018 was a challenging year, I felt like I was progressing as an artist and
In September, I visited Glacier National Park again (I’m running a couple of Glacier Photography Workshops next year). It was terrible weather and I was solo. Much of the trip was just forcing myself to get out into the rain and take pictures. I ended up with some great waterfall images and the weather did
I was recently interviewed for a story about the night skies in Grand Marais. When interviewed for a story like this, you usually only get a small fraction of what you said into the story. I had a couple of quotes in the story, but thought it would be worthwhile posting all the answers from
I’m excited to release my Northern Landscapes Calendar for 2020. This is a Minnesota lover’s dream Minnesota calendar for 2020. The selection of images represent the north shore of Lake Superior and surrounding areas. The most southern image is a waterfall at Gooseberry State Park (the cover is from near Bayfield) and the northernmost image
Each month of this year, I’ve been falling a bit more behind in providing trip reports. Back in July, I was in northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin leading a photography workshop. With the early sunrise that time of year, late sunsets and extremely high water on the Mississippi River we ended up feeling pretty tired
