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 this into an eBook as well). But, this year I decided to send out my
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 Badlands. I wasn’t going to run this winter one next year and in its place
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 photos that I took while on the road this year. This collection of images includes
Last year, I did two calendars. I offered my landscape calendar (buy my 2016 Northern Landscapes Calendar here), and due to popular request I offered a nightscape calendar. While not as popular as the landscape calendar, I thought it did well enough to offer it again in 2016. Just like last year’s calendar, this one
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 deleting the bad ones feels hard, because you have an immediate emotional connection to all
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.
May was a busy travel month for me. I spent much of the month out west photographing the Black Hills, Badlands National Park and Theodore Roosevelt National Park. While in the later, I ran into a few situations where I want to show a big sun rising or setting over the terrain of the park.
In photography, there are two types of focus. The first is a plane of focus. This occurs at the point where you actually focus the camera, and it runs in a plane that parallels the sensor in your camera. Then there’s depth of field. Depth of field is how much of the photo appears to
At the beginning of the month I wrote about Winter Traction Devices for Photographers. In this newsletter, I’m writing about Lens Choices and Building a Photography System. Lens Choices and Building a Photography System Building a photography system from the ground up can feel daunting and expensive. It’s hard to decide exactly which lens to
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,
