It was so clear this morning in Spokane, WA, with frost covering the world. My father-in-law, Jim, took me to the mill pond for a little photography expedition. It was a good excuse to get Chloe (and me) out of the house while the activity of Thanksgiving preparation was happening. The [...]

Wishing all of you a peaceful Thanksgiving!

As my friend above reminds us, eat only Turkeys…

Now my sister’s gone and done it…
She ordered a new Canon Rebel XTi and a Tamron 18-250mm zoom lens (I know, I know, but buying a Canon doesn’t make her a bad-person…much.).
After asking a bunch of questions, she took the plunge and is trading up from her Canon Powershot S3…

It was only 4:45 in the p.m. and it was already dark outside. Not my favorite time of the year.
Summer has said it’s last fare-thee-well and winter was approaching as fast as a Buick V-8.
As soon as daylight-savings-time was over, the saps that could barely drive in the daytime, were out in droves at night [...]

Bless all the men and women who have kept, keep and will keep us safe. Your sacrifices are unfathomable and your contributions priceless.
We keep all our veterans in our hearts today and always.
(Special shout-out to our friends in the 426th CABn!)

Last night I wanted to create a photo of some French soaps in low light with lots of texture. My simple solution was to use a home-made snoot.
This is about the cheapest, quickest, snoot you can use. It’s just a piece of printer paper wrapped around a light source to direct the light like a [...]

If you haven’t already checked out wunderkind Joey Lawrence, do it.  Right now.  I mean it.  Absolutely fantastic work and he’s really pushing the art and what we think can be done with it.  He’s young enough so that he doesn’t follow the same rules and methods we would normally do in certain situations, but [...]

For the last 6 months, my desktop has been telling me it’s time to recalibrate, and for the last 6 months I’ve been ignoring it.  Now that I’m trying to find my screen calibrator, I can’t.  What makes things a little more difficult is that I’ve loaned it to at least a half dozen people [...]