Category: Newsletter
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Webinar: Achieve Your Vision – Introduction to the Digital Darkroom
I’m offering a webinar this month. This month’s webinar will occur on October 13th at 7pm. If you can’t make that date you can still register and watch the webinar afterwards. It’ll be online for seven days after the event. The topic is photo editing. I’ll present my method of editing using Lightroom, and I’ll…
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Webinar on Landscape Photography Composition – July 14th
I’m offering a webinar on July 14th at 7pm on Composition for Landscape Photography. After the webinar ends, you’ll be able to watch it for seven days. That means if you can’t make it on the 14th, you can still see the webinar. To do either, you’ll need to register. Register here: Registration For landscape…
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Did I stall out?
At the beginning of the lock down during this pandemic, I had a couple of big thoughts… I’d write a book or I’d complete my photography guidebook to the Grand Marais area. I was going to lift weights. I was going to break my social media addiction. I was going to go out and take…
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When is it a photography project?
One of the things that I’ve been thinking about lately is, when is it a photography project? After several years, I’ve reached my goal of over 50 found bikes for my Found Bike Project. I’m continuing that project onward. I’ve also formed another project idea in my mind, but I’m not sure when it becomes…
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Bluff Country of the Mississippi River Trip Report
Each month of this year, I’ve been falling a bit more behind in providing trip reports. Back in July, I was in northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin leading a photography workshop. With the early sunrise that time of year, late sunsets and extremely high water on the Mississippi River we ended up feeling pretty tired…
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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 simple: It has to cover 12mm-ish to 300mm on full frame. It has to have…
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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 some of the roads were still closed due to debris covering the surface from floods.…
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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 do you overcome gray skies in landscape photography? Here are a couple of tips. Embrace…
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Faces of the Dead: Fake Photos and Pareidolia?
During the 10/10 storm event on Lake Superior, I took video and photos of Shovel Point. In one (and only one) of my shots out of the 100s I shot everything aligned perfectly to create waves that looked like faces. Seeing faces, animals and other objects where none exist is known as pareidolia. It’s a psychological…
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Summer So Far: Midyear as an artist update.
This morning, I decided to look back over the fine art images that I’ve captured this summer (starting June 1st and ending August 9th). I came up with 94 images. When I narrow that down to my favorite images of the 94, I end up with 37. That’s fewer than 1 image per day, which…
