Learn, Improve & Grow

It happens. Every photographer goes through a stage when photographing new and exciting locations is impossible. Perhaps this is happening to you right now. Maybe life has you tending to responsibilities at home, or health issues have you resting without travel possibilities, or life has some...

I'm always looking for creative ways to photograph familiar scenes. Composing landscape images thoughtfully will contribute to the visual success of a photo. 

Today, I'm not going to talk about standard compositional guidelines like the Rule of Thirds. Instead, I want to highlight...

Landscape photography is not for the faint of heart. Landscape photographers rise before the earliest birds begin to sing their morning songs. We skip meals ignoring hunger, fatigue, cold and heat. We hike through forests and fields, hoping that the animal tracks in the snow are not all...

 Why do you enjoy photography?

This is a question I like asking photographers. I find I get a variety of different answers, some of which include, "I enjoy spending time in nature, "Photography allows me to bring home my memories from vacation and travel," "Photography is my...

The night sky is enchanting. When most humans are asleep, the sights in our galaxy are breathtaking. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the galactic core in the Milky Way is again rising and will become more visible over the next few months. The night sky and Milky Way photography break...

Composition in landscape photography is an enormous topic for discussion and learning. I've told this story many times, but I think it's worth mentioning again...At the beginning of my landscape journey, I neglected to recognize the importance of composition. I thought it was enough to...