Category: Newsletter
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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 beautiful. It’s so beautiful that I’m adding an Iowa photography workshop there next year. Northeastern…
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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 amazing + amazing + amazing + amazing = Super Duper Amazing! I had one of…
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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. The bears are on the move. And the green — the amazing green that the…
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Winter 2015-2016 – 123 Images in Review
The winter of 2015-2016 felt like a bit of a let down compared to other years. While, the average temps haven’t been released, yet, they were above normal. The winter was punctuated by rain and temperatures above freezing. It even reached into the 60s at points. This wasn’t a normal winter — but what is…
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Best Headlamp for Night Photography
Adding a human figure to a night image helps ground the image to the earth. A silhouetted figure is heavy with visual weight and attracts your audience’s eyes. You can use that to help develop flow in your image by positioning the figure where you need the audience’s eyes to go. When you add a…
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Favorite Photos from 2015
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…
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Photos from the Badlands Photography Workshop
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…
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Photos from the Road in 2015
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…
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How to do an Initial Edit of Your Images
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…