Photo: Deer skins on a dumpster, Kanab, Utah. I admit it. Ok; two things…First, I’m not a hunter, never have been. Doesn’t mean I’m anti-hunting. Had I grown up in Wyoming or Montana, I’m sure I’d know this, but I’m clueless why hunters would leave these skins? Don’t they have…
Check me on this distance thing: The oldest stars in the universe are some 14 Billion Light years away. That’s 186,000 miles per second, times however many seconds there are in a year, times 14,000,000,000. And yet, some scientests calculate the nearest parallel universe is only 1/10,000,000,000,000 of a millimeter…
I just read via a link from one of my photo forums, a very interesting take on the vanishing middle-class photographers, and how technology has opened the flood gates for competition, and the lack of perceived value from the vendor side has impacted our profession. It’s fairly long and packed…
It the best tradition of internet sharing, this came to me by a buddy on a private photo group. I want to pass it along and ask that if you have any good ones to contribute, please add it to the list using the comment form. Thanks. 25 (and growing)…
Picture: Fall colors on tree below the Watchman, Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah This month’s Photo of the Month is as fresh as they get, only a few days old, and from my recent trip to Utah. This is from the most well known icon spot in the park,…
Photo: Cattle Guard waring sign along dirt road in the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument, near Tuweep, Arizona. I just got back from a nine day local excursion to the Kanab / Grand Canyon / Zion region of southern Utah & northern Arizona. I have a personal affinity for driving…
Photo: Line of photographers at the bridge over the Virgin River, looking toward the Watchman, Zion Canyon, Zion National Park, Utah This is only a small section of the photographers lined up trying to make their own icon image of The Watchman and the Virgin River. In some spots, tripods…
Picture: Hikers reflected in desert pool below rock formations at The Wave, Coyote Buttes, Paria / Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness, Arizona – Utah border. Happy Belated Birthday, Richard!
Photo: Leaning Tower, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California Within the last hour I heard the sad news that famed climber Todd Skinner has died in a fall off Leaning Tower in Yosemite Valley. I am not a climber, but my old boss, Galen Rowell had done numerous climbs with…
Picture: Red Ivy leaves in fall on wall of Garry Farrar vineyards, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County, California. This is an image I shot a year or so ago, and is now one of 4500 image scans in my production queue. I’ve been having lots of fun (sarcasm) this week,…
Yes, that’s right; the Boy Scouts of America now have a merit badge for copyright awareness. The AP report highlights that this is aimed toward music and movies. Let’s see them try to clean up and educate all the masses of people swiping material, including photos, for posting on their…
I don’t do too many HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. In fact, I’ve only experimented with a few shots here and there. But with Photoshop’s HDR feature, it’s possible to get images with a range of detail in highlights and shadows that had not been previously possible with single frame…
Reporting from the far and wide regions, the PhillyBlurb.com has an article about a local photographer who has been busted for failing to deliver wedding photos to 25 couples; weddings where his fee ranged between $1,500.00 and $5,000.00 each. As I often say, anyone can call themselves a photographer, but…
Those of you who have young daughters will recognize the above quote from TV’s “Dora the Explorer“. But for myself, it seemed the fitting quote for mentioning a weblog I found recently through a link posted in one of my professional photography forums. Unfortunately, it’s been such a busy week…
Here’s one more shot of the Blue Angels flying in formation during the San Francisco Fleet Week celebrations.
I felt so non-professional. In a way, it’s enjoyable when you don’t feel you have to get the shot. That’s the expectation everytime you’re hired as a pro photographer. But not this last Sunday. It was take the kids to the city for the day, mainly to watch the Blue…
Wow – talk about close! Check out the photo and article in the Daily News about a guy who photographed a lightning bolt strike only yards (meters) from where he stood. The blast was so powerful that it knocked him six feet in the air. Be sure to click the…
Un-blanken Believable!! The plague is spreading. It seems that I now have comment spammers spamming one of the forms on my web site. I’ve gotten about a dozen emailed forms in the last few days. They are semi-filled out with some options selected, and a comment that says, “Nice Site. Check…
Creative Pro has a quick tutorial for understanding how Color photos appear in web browsers, and how to best prepare images for display on the web so that the colors remain accurate. If you’re not familiar with the terms “Adobe RGB” and “sRGB”, yet you love to post images onto…
For those following the Orphan Works Congressional Bill working it’s way through congress; Photo District News reports that the bill has died a quiet death. Having generated a lot of heat in the professional arts community, this bill threatened the ability of copyright holders to protect and defend their copyright…
Picture: Golden Aspen trees in Fall along Virginia Creek, Mono County, Eastern Sierra, California This is an image from a couple years ago, but probably close to how things look in the Eastern Sierra right now. This is one of 565 images that I have recently scanned, so it was…
I wish I had a picture of a Yo-Yo! It would be perfect for explaining how many times my web host server has gone up and down this week. At least 5 calls to tech support have been made during the course of the last several days. On severa instances,…
Photo: Looking out the airplane window at sunset light on engine cowling of Boeing 737-400 enroute from Chicago, Illinois, to San Francisco, California As I mentioned on a previous post, I planned my recent flight from Chicago to be flying right over the Sierra at sunset; which we were. However…
