Photo challenges come in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. Some are strictly personal as when one of us decides to challenge ourself to photograph all the waterfalls in the county or to learn how to photograph the night sky, or to photograph exclusively with a certain lens for a photoshoot. There’s no shortage of challenges […]
One day it’s snowing, the next it’s raining. One day the skies are bright overcast, the next they are dark and dank. Every day you take your tripod with you for your photo shoot. Then, on one of the dark and dank days, you leave home without the tripod and drive 35 miles to your […]
You know, sometimes I think it’s fair to compare nature photography to playing the one-armed bandit at the casino. One day you may begin to think you’ve had enough and the next . . . you can’t get enough. Today was one of the latter. It was one of those mornings I’m always talking about […]
Doesn’t every nature/landscape photographer have an urge to get outside with his tripod and camera on New Year’s Day? I certainly do. I just looked back and it seems like that’s been the urge as least for several years now. Today, I started out for an early New Year’s walk with only my iPhone camera, […]
One of the things I like about these days between real autumn and real winter is that it forces me to keep things simple. There’s not a lot in the grand landscape that’s interesting to me most days. Still, with a little patience and attention to “tiny landscapes”, or extracts, we can come home with […]
It’s difficult during the drab days between autumn and winter and that’s especially true on days like today, when winter is threatening with thick dark clouds and therefore minimal color in the landscape. Add to the fact that the colorful leaves have all fallen, lay on the ground as pretty much a soggy mess. It’s […]
Last week, my friend Chuck and I went north to one of our favorite photo venues …. the Adirondack Mountains. On this occasion we decided that Long Lake would make a good home base for a weekend shoot. All along, we were planning to campout (yes, in our tents). However, a sinus infection caused us […]
As part of the discussion aspect of our artful nature photography collaboration, what follows is some input from Sandi Cannellos for everyone’s thoughtful consideration. I suggested last week that sometime in the future we would vote on images to select 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place in anticipation of an exhibition of some larger number of […]
Well, I admit I’m a little bummed at the late arrival of winter. Typically, I prefer the opportunity to shoot a fresh coating of snow than I do left-over autumn. But, once in a while we’re given a gift and this morning’s frost-covered landscape was just such a gift. I had just started my morning […]
I’ve just had the pleasure of spending two half-days and a night at the Great Camp Sagamore, near Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks. Wow! I was limited by my schedules so I had to cram as much photography into the few hours I had as I could. There was certainly no shortage of subject matter. […]