This year’s Northern Nightscapes Calendar includes images from Cook County, Minnesota. All the images were created in the darkest county in Minnesota which contains an area as dark as the darkest places in the world. I love the night sky in Cook County and it is a compelling reason to live here. Like all beautiful
The Found Bike Project is an ongoing project aiming to find and photograph old or unusual bikes that I find on my travels. It started when I posted a picture of an old bike on my Facebook photography page. The people who commented encouraged me to continue to find bikes and post more photos of
Recently, I was browsing the Minnesota Photography Club’s Facebook page and noticed that lots of photographers were pasting links to their Facebook photo pages. I noticed a half dozen link pastes. Most of the time they paste links instead of directly posting a photo because they want more likes and traffic to their Facebook pages.
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
My Northern Landscapes 2013 Calendar features images from the Grand Marais and Grand Portage area of Cook County, Minnesota. I took each of the images at some point during 2012, so all the images are fresh and some of the most liked of the year. Most of the images are of Lake Superior, but I
I wanted a calendar of my favorite images from, mainly, the last year, so I put one together. It’s available for purchase. You should check it out and buy my Northern Landscapes 2010 Calendar here. – You should follow me on Twitter Here.
Tonight I taught a Night Photography Workshop. It was 3 hours with 1 hour of classroom and 2 hours down on Artist’s Point. All week I’ve been watching the weather and crossing my fingers that it would be okay for tonight. With 35 mph winds yesterday and rain for the last week I was concerned.
I used to write for a magazine that had several articles in each issue called “Quick and Dirty.” They covered many topics, but the main goal of each article concentrated on accomplishing a complicated goal quickly with high quality results. The author’s goal was to write about the subject quickly, clearly, simply, and produce a
Community Ed Cheat Sheets for those in the Basic Digital Class. Right click and Save these images to print out and paste on a 3×5 notecard. They’ll serve as reminders for you. There’s also a white balance cheat sheet here: White Balance Cheat Sheet
Every once in a great while, I need to do a product shot. So, when I saw this easy, cheap, Mini Macro Studio set-up, I had to try it out. It uses two pieces of paper, two pieces of tape, one camera, one flash stand, and one flash. I have a SB-800 flash, so I
