Category: Newsletter
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Grand Marais Photographer June 1 Newsletter
Brrrr….May has been chilly, which is a shock after such a warm March, but not so shocking after a chilly April. Things in the northland are warming up though and it’s gotten green out. Grand Marais is coming to life with visitors showing up. You now need to look both ways before crossing the street,…
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The Grand Marais Photographer Newsletter May 2012
March was warm and April was not so warm, which was an interesting switch. On the north shore, you never know what you’re going to get in April. It’s one of those months that locals call the mud season, because you can almost always count on mud during the end of the month. On the…
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What Landscape Photography Settings Did I Use?
I get asked “What landscape photography settings did you use?” often, and I don’t mind letting the cat out of the bag. But without knowing the lighting conditions, telling someone the settings for a particular picture doesn’t do that much good. You need a background in the fundamentals of landscape photography. If you know just a little,…
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The Grand Marais Photographer Newsletter March 2012
489 pictures out of about 1,500. That’s the number of pictures that I kept in February. Out of those 489, I had 70 that I considered worth flagging for adjustment. Out of those 70, I really love about 5 or 6 of them. Getting 5 or 6 photos that I love in one month is a…
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February 2012 Newsletter – The Grand Marais Photographer Update
January was a relatively mild month on Lake Superior’s north shore. Usually, we photographers shiver and bundle up in all our clothing to stand on the shore and wait for the sunrise, but this year I don’t think I even felt that cold once while out there — or maybe I just don’t remember the -15F…
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Grand Marais Photography – December 2011 Newsletter
December Reflections December is also a good time for looking back on some of the pictures taken this year. Here are a few that I really enjoyed making this year. Click on the thumbnail to see the full image. In addition to taking lots of photographs this year, I took a 45 day long kayaking…