Today was one of those days when photography turns out to be delicious. A sunny afternoon was what we call “the cherry on top” when it follows a night of freshly fallen snow. Everything was clean . . . except for the occasional footprints of some critters. I wish I knew what critters left the […]
When I climb out of bed in the morning typically one of the first things I do is take a look out my bedroom window to see what the morning might be offering, photographically. This morning, I felt like I might have hit the jackpot. What I was seeing was a heavy morning fog and […]
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 […]
I took a total of three images early this morning as a day of in and out snow showers got underway. I was in a hurry (why does that sound so typical?) to get down to St. Joe’s Hospital so I decided to head straight to Strong Road near Tully, NY because it would give […]
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 […]
Okay, I’m hoping the hunt doesn’t get more difficult. Today was one of those days where everything you do seems to get in the way with what you want to be doing. I left the house about 6:30 am and soon became aware of a dramatically colorful eastern sky. But, first, I thought, it will […]
There are a few things landscape photographers need to understand about lines as we compose our images. #1 Lines comes in different “flavors”. The most common have to be those of the horizontal and vertical variety. Close to these two has to be the diagonal line. Of course there is also the irregular line and let’s […]