It’s that time of year again when I go through my images trying to select what images I want to include in my calendar. I have a hard time narrowing down what images to select, so I need your help. If you could check out the following images and tell me which image numbers are
I’m a couple of trips behind on these trip reports. Back in June, I lead a photograph workshop to Devils Tower and the Badlands National Park to photograph the night sky. We had excellent conditions and shot the Milky Way over the Tower and over Badlands formation. The group was fantastic and everyone was fun
Back in mid-May, I spent a few days in the Bayfield, Wisconsin area scouting for my May 14 to 17, 2020 Sea and Landscapes of Bayfield Peninsula Photo Workshop. I love the Bayfield area, but usually when I’m over that way I bring a kayak and paddle the sea caves. This time I left the kayak
The secret of getting good photos is as simple as taking one action. Whether you are on vacation or just want to get good landscape photos, you can take this action. You can usually do this without causing too many scheduling problems with your travel partners. Your travel partners may whine a little and you
My first trip to Sanibel Island was a road trip in a gold-painted Cadillac. I was old enough to remember but young enough to think that recording the song The Chordettes’ Mr. Sandman from the rear speakers onto an cassette player was cool. That’s how it went from Iowa to Florida. When my brother and
Typically when I travel, I drive and tend to bring everything and the kitchen sink, but I’ve been flying more often recently and have been thinking about how to make the best lightweight camera system for travel. My criteria is simple: It has to cover 12mm-ish to 300mm on full frame. It has to have
Back in January, I lead a Death Valley Photo Workshop. We spent five days in the park photographing dunes, salt flats, canyons, volcanic craters and more sand dunes and overlooks. It was right after the government shutdown had ended, so some of the roads were still closed due to debris covering the surface from floods.
Now that 2018 has come to an end — Happy New Year! — it’s time to look back over my last year and see how I did as an artist and post my favorite photos of 2018. Looking back at my 2017 favorite photos and update seems interesting to me this year. I accomplished much
Nebraska. Flat. Plains. Farms. Fences. And then you get to the western side and seemingly out of nowhere — because it is out of nowhere and nothing — eroded buttes and features arise from the grasses. The Oregon Trail ran through this area and the prominent features are the Courthouse and Jail Rock, Chimney Rock
In 2018, Minnesota saw lowest amount of Autumn sunshine since 1983. It seemed like it was always cloudy and when you’re a landscape photographer, cloudy skies can make for unexciting photos — that is unless you embrace the gray. So, how do you overcome gray skies in landscape photography? Here are a couple of tips. Embrace
