We finally attacked the garage. After three years of living with a packed garage (ala one of those depressing clean-the-clutter tv shows), we finally cleaned up and cleaned out. Granted, all of the junk was not our own. We inherited 60 years worth of garage workshop engine grease, nuts, bolts, cobwebs, [...]

I shot this picture in a tunnel near Crystal Cove Beach near Newport, California a couple of weekends ago. The tunnel was really cool and I wanted the exterior part in the center to be blown out and overexposed.
The tricky part was trying to do this with my point-and-shoot camera which was all [...]

Here are some tips and tricks for improving pictures of clouds and sky, using only a compact camera.

Old news by a couple days, but Canon introduced two new DSLRs, the EOS-1Ds Mark III (long enough yet?) and the EOS 40D.
EOS-1Ds Mark III
The new model combines a 21.03 million image pixel self-cleaning sensor and maximum 5 fps shooting rate in a body that’s nearly identical in appearance to the EOS-1D Mark III, and [...]

Fellow DP Blogger, Jim, over at Slightly Out of Focus, has written a hilarious post about applying personal ad-speak to photographers. It goes something like this: “SMN(Single-Male Nikon) seeks SFMN (Single female Nikon) for long exposure relationship (LER).”
It’s photo-nerd humor. Definitely worth a read!

I went to Long Beach Harbor a couple of weeks ago and took a bunch of shots of the lighthouse there. It was right in the middle of the day, so the light was really boring, glarey, and bright with virtually no shadows, but I was there so I took pictures, of course. [...]