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Over the weekend while teaching a waterfall photography class, we hiked up the Cascade River State Park waterfall trail and came to the first waterfall. In previous years, the waterfall was framed in by two massive white cedars. It made…
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Best Photos of 2016 Runner-ups
Back in January, I selected my favorite photos of the year. Each month I picked one favorite shot and then I published them in my Best Photo of 2016 post. There were 62 runner-ups that I didn’t post and a…
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Low Level Lighting for Nightscape and Milky Way Photography
Recently Arches and Canyonlands National Parks have considered banning night photography workshops — these aren’t parks that I run workshops in but nonetheless I have concerns. While those parks still allow night workshops, they may stop allowing that usage of the…
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Best Photos of 2016
Even six days after 2016 ended looking back seems so long ago. In 2017, it seems like we entered a new harsh reality and the good old days where the world had your back seem long gone. Artistically in 2016,…
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Review Sensei Pro Filter Holder System
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…
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Hello from Grand Teton National Park: the Old Patriarch Tree
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…
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Bluff Country of Northeast Iowa Trip Report
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…
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Badlands and Black Hills Recap
At the end of June, I taught a five-day photography workshop in the Badlands and Black Hills. Equal time was spent in the Badlands and Black Hills. We based out of Wall, South Dakota for the Badlands part and in the…
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An Amazing Night of Night Photography
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…
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Spring in the Great Smoky Mountains
Spring in the Great Smoky Mountains Photo Workshop 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.…