One of the many parts of running a successful photography business is learning how to market or hiring someone who knows how. The next part is actually doing the marketing. I’ve done a terrible job this year of promoting my photography workshops, so this newsletter is all about promoting my workshops. I hope you don’t
Filters are important for the type of landscape and seascape photography that I do. For sunrise and sunsets, I almost always use a Singh-Ray ND grad and often use a Singh-Ray Mor-Slo ND filter (see my Filters for Outdoors article for more info). Because those filters are rectangular or square, respectively, you need a filter
My Northern Landscapes 2017 Calendar is now available for purchase. This year was a difficult one for me. I’ve been traveling so much that I haven’t shot much in northern Minnesota. That made it easier to pick photos, because there were fewer, but it also made it harder to select photos because they were fewer
Just a quick note from Grand Teton National Park. The other day, I hiked (bushwhacked) into the Old Patriarch Tree. The Old Patriarch Tree is a limber pine and an iconic tree that stands alone in the sagebrush flats. The park road used to go past the tree, but it’s now a 3/4 mile hike to get
With so many places to travel and photograph, one might ask a landscape photography why he would choose northeastern Iowa for a photography trip. If you asked me that question, I’d give you a simple three word answer: It is beautiful. It’s so beautiful that I’m adding an Iowa photography workshop there next year. Northeastern
The release of my 2017 workshop schedule is a bit behind schedule. I usually try to announce the workshops in April, but having a one-year-old has certainly thrown wrenches into my gear works. Without further ado, here’s the 2017 schedule of workshops: 2017 PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS February 3 to 5 — Lake Superior Winter Photo Workshop February 17 to
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 amazing + amazing + amazing + amazing = Super Duper Amazing! I had one of
Spring in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 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. The bears are on the move. And the green — the amazing green that the
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 reached into the 60s at points. This wasn’t a normal winter — but what is
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 positioning the figure where you need the audience’s eyes to go. When you add a
