Most photographers shoot their cameras with the shutter release button set to control focus in addition to release the shutter. When you push the shutter release button down halfway, it focuses. The advantage is that with the focus and release…
April was a whirlwind for me. I was in Florida for the first part of the month both on vacation and then kayaking in the Florida Keys with friends finishing up a three-year kayaking expedition. On the way back from…
This newsletter is a little late, because I was on vacation/road trip/kayaking trip for the last month and didn’t have the time to think about a newsletter/process images/stop to catch my breath. My road trip ended up being one of…
Busy and fantastic is how I describe February 2013. It was cold enough to form ice on Lake Superior, which makes this year better than last (the winterless year). It was still not as icy as previous winters, but it was good…
What and odd month that just passed. January came in cold, got warm, rained, hit the 40°s F and then dropped to the -20°s F. The shoreline went from ice to basalt to ice, and the ground near the lake…
Over the last week, I’ve been looking back at the photos I took in 2012 trying to identify my best images of the year and my favorite images of the year. I also compared this year’s photos to last year…
It’s now solidly winter in the northland, which is one of my favorite times to photograph the north shore. The days are short, so shooting both the sunrise and the sunset is easy. The sun rises and sets over Lake…
With November come and gone, we northlanders have found ourselves in winter. In fact, I can tell you exactly the day it happened. Winter happened the day after Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving, we took our visiting family on a mild fall…
It’s hard to believe that it’s November already. October went so quickly that I don’t even really remember it. At the beginning of the month, they wind blew the fall colors off of the trees and at the end of…
September in the northland came and went way too quickly. Fall started early, then stopped and held off until the last week of September, and then blew away in the first few days of October. I’ve always thought that the…