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I’m a couple of trips behind on these trip reports. Back in June, I lead a photograph workshop to Devils Tower and the Badlands National Park to photograph the night sky. We had excellent conditions and shot the Milky Way…
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Bayfield Trip Report
Back in mid-May, I spent a few days in the Bayfield, Wisconsin area scouting for my May 14 to 17, 2020 Sea and Landscapes of Bayfield Peninsula Photo Workshop. I love the Bayfield area, but usually when I’m over that way…
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Getting Good Photos of Landscapes or Good Vacation Photos
The secret of getting good photos is as simple as taking one action. Whether you are on vacation or just want to get good landscape photos, you can take this action. You can usually do this without causing too many…
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Sanibel Island
My first trip to Sanibel Island was a road trip in a gold-painted Cadillac. I was old enough to remember but young enough to think that recording the song The Chordettes’ Mr. Sandman from the rear speakers onto an cassette…
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Best Lightweight Camera System for Travel
Typically when I travel, I drive and tend to bring everything and the kitchen sink, but I’ve been flying more often recently and have been thinking about how to make the best lightweight camera system for travel. My criteria is…
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Death Valley Trip Report
Back in January, I lead a Death Valley Photo Workshop. We spent five days in the park photographing dunes, salt flats, canyons, volcanic craters and more sand dunes and overlooks. It was right after the government shutdown had ended, so…
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My Favorite Photos of 2018
Now that 2018 has come to an end — Happy New Year! — it’s time to look back over my last year and see how I did as an artist and post my favorite photos of 2018. Looking back at…
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Go Western Nebraska!
Nebraska. Flat. Plains. Farms. Fences. And then you get to the western side and seemingly out of nowhere — because it is out of nowhere and nothing — eroded buttes and features arise from the grasses. The Oregon Trail ran…
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Overcoming Gray Skies in Landscape Photography
In 2018, Minnesota saw lowest amount of Autumn sunshine since 1983. It seemed like it was always cloudy and when you’re a landscape photographer, cloudy skies can make for unexciting photos — that is unless you embrace the gray. So, how…
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Blue Ridge Parkway Trip Report
In the middle of October, I taught a photography workshop in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. After the workshop was over, I drove up the Blue Ridge Parkway with the goal of making it to Marby Mill in Virginia.…