Photography

Once again, I selected my favorite images of the year.  When I select my top 24 images, I select my top 2 from each month. This makes the choice a bit more difficult because some months have a hundred great images and some months only a few. But it gives me an exercise in editing, so I guess that’s a good thing!

I recently acquired a Tamron 90mm macro lens for the purpose of making highly detailed, artistic images of flowers on a white background.  I decided to create my vision using a lightbox and focus stacking, to create the level of sharpness that I desired...

My favorite event to photograph is the horses on the beach. This year I thought I would do something different (for me) and experiment with fill flash.

I am getting near the end of my first session of my 5 month online master class, “Take Your Photography to the Max,” and it has worked out even better than I had hoped. Everyone has enjoyed the lessons...

As I was packing for my tour to Homer, Alaska to photograph eagles, I was a bit discouraged because the weather forecast was for rain and cold the whole week. Typical Alaska weather. I always tell my participants,” when going to Alaska prepare for rain every day and then if you get good weather it’s a bonus!”  I didn’t think we were going to get a bonus, but fortunately I was wrong!

Yesterday a local Facebook group, Sacramento Photographers, was hosting a photo shoot at our local zoo.  I had been wanting to practice with fill flash a bit more and one of my attendees for my upcoming “Eagles, Home, Alaska” tour wanted to practice as well.  So, I c

...I spent several weeks in Florida in January/February and knew I was going to be at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Delray Beach, Florida photographing birds often.  I have spent a lot of time in this location, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to practice my fill flash techniques. I do have some new equipment and going back to the same location multiple times gave me a great opportunity to try it out and experiment with my settings...

It doesn’t take much to get me motivated to doing night photography, so when I saw there was a “Seascapes at Night” program at Fotofusion last week, I signed up in a hurry! 

I like to look back on the photographs I made in the previous year and pick out my favorites.  This year I decided to make the challenge of picking my top 24 by choosing 2 images from each month.

Listen to my interview on switching from Canon to Nikon on "Photographing the West" podcast.