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At the end of June, I taught a five-day photography workshop in the Badlands and Black Hills. Equal time was spent in the Badlands and Black Hills. We based out of Wall, South Dakota for the Badlands part and in the…
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An Amazing Night of Night Photography
Every now and then, you get an amazing night. In Cook County, on any clear night when the moon isn’t out, you get an amazing starry sky. If the northern lights are out, it can be even more amazing. That’s…
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Spring in the Great Smoky Mountains
Spring in the Great Smoky Mountains Photo Workshop is hard to describe unless you’ve been there. It feels like a real spring. Things are coming alive. Flowers are blooming and covering acres of the forest floor. The waterfalls are flowing.…
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Winter 2015-2016 – 123 Images in Review
The winter of 2015-2016 felt like a bit of a let down compared to other years. While, the average temps haven’t been released, yet, they were above normal. The winter was punctuated by rain and temperatures above freezing. It even…
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Best Headlamp for Night Photography
Adding a human figure to a night image helps ground the image to the earth. A silhouetted figure is heavy with visual weight and attracts your audience’s eyes. You can use that to help develop flow in your image by…
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Favorite Photos from 2015
I’ve already posted a retrospective of my travels from 2015 (see: Photos from the Road), so now it’s time to pick out my favorite photos from the year. That last three years, I’ve done this via eBooks (and I may turn…
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Photos from the Badlands Photography Workshop
The second to last photography workshop of the year this year was in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. I lead a group of photographers from mainly the Midwest, but also the east coast on a three-day adventure in the…
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Photos from the Road in 2015
Looking back on 2015, I’ve discovered that I did some of my best photography while traveling. While I have one more trip to the Badlands National Park (this weekend), I thought it would be interesting to look back at the…
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How to do an Initial Edit of Your Images
You’ve come back from vacation with several memory cards full of photos, and it’s time to download several 1000 photos to your hard drive and try to decide which ones to delete and which photos to keep. The chore of…
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Outdoor Photography Ethics 101
Outdoor ethics and outdoor etiquette seem to receive only cursory treatment within the outdoor photography world, and it’s time to change that. The problem is as more people have discovered the joys of nature photography, the cursory treatment of ethics is failing…