All of my 2015 classes are now open for registration. They make great Christmas gifts. Hope to see you on Lake Superior, in the Badlands, the Great Smoky Mountains or in Iowa next year. For the Black Friday weekend, I’m offering $25 off for my workshop registrations (except the Neal Smith Workshop). Use the code
My Northern Nightscapes 2015 Calendar is now out. Here’s a preview of the calendar. I included the dates for meteor showers, full moons, new moons and lunar eclipses. Buy one calendar, get a second copy of the same item for half price. Cannot be combined with other offers. (Coupon Code: PIC4U) <– Works as of
Recently, I read about how photographer David Kingham changed his life. Basically, he sold off all his stuff, paid off his debts, lost weight, found a god, bought a van and decided to live out of it and camp and travel and photograph. Good for him. In a followup to his post, he writes about
October was a crazy busy month for me. I taught many one-on-one lessons and then went out east to Tennessee and North Carolina to teach my Great Smoky Mountains National Park Photography Workshop. I photographed the park for two week and really didn’t want to come home. For all you north shore lovers, I highly
For this year’s calendar I selected images that were all from near Grand Marais. While I did do a good deal a traveling with two visits to the Smoky Mountains and two visits to the Badlands and visits to Florida and elsewhere, I felt like my happiest images were from the Grand Marais area. Over
Fall in the northland went fast this year. The reds seemed to go from green to peak to falling off the trees in less than 5 days. The fall in the northland went slow this year. The yellows seemed to peak at the same time as the red and despite the rain and strong winds,
In a land to the north, far north in Minnesota, a place of stark beauty, winter is coming. Soon blue ice will coat the shoreline, the sun will rise and set over the vast open emptiness of Lake Superior. Soon sheets of ice will rush down the coast piling up against the ancient basalt. Soon,
One of banes of digital photographers is dust spots, and unless you’re religious about cleaning your sensor, you more than likely have dust on it that’s creating dust spots in your pictures. Unless you train your eye to see these spots on your monitor, they’ll often slip by and become visible on your prints. If
Achieve Your Vision: Processing Photos in the Digital Darkroom November 15, 2014, 9am – 4pm Location:Founders Hall at the Grand Marais Art Colony Tuition: $95.00 The process of making a digital photograph starts at visualization, continues through the craft of taking the picture, and then journeys into the digital darkroom. In the digital darkroom, just
One of the big myths believed in photography is that every good photo must tell a story. I simply disagree. While a good photo may tell a story, not all good photos need to tell a story. I think this myth probably evolved from the journalistic side of photography. In journalism, you want to tell a
