I don’t know about where you live, but in Southern California, spring is in full bloom. It’s beautiful, yes, but the flowers are downright killing me with their pollen and allergins. I didn’t get a chance to post my photo for yesterday (Day 13) because I’ve been practically blinded by the tears streaming down [...]

Day 2 of the Photo a Day Challenge, and I’m still here! Amazing. And, although I took about a hundred photographs of my favorite subject, my daughter, today in the late afternoon light, I resisted posting one as my daily shot in lieu of the flowers. I figured I would have plenty of time [...]

So you’ve pulled out your camera manual, figured out what your optical zoom level is (and how to make sure you don’t exceed it) and how to turn on macro, right? Good. Now you’re ready to begin playing around. Actually getting depth of field effects with a point & shoot can feel [...]

Mike just wrote a little informational post about what depth of field is, which reminded me that I had a fun idea for an article. See, depth of field effects are a great way to highlight part of your photograph by naturally blurring parts of the image and leaving other parts in focus. [...]

I joined a color challenge for this week, and I’m bound and determined to finish at least one challenge I start on this blog! (The 30 days of photos and the numbers challenge were not my best examples of diligence and perseverance.) But I decided this challenge was more my speed since it’s only [...]

OK, OK — I’m really bad at this Photo a Day challenge. It’s not that I’m not taking pictures. It’s that I’m too darn busy to upload them to Flickr and then blog about them. But I’m taking pictures. That should count for something, right?
Alright, I’ll stop making excuses and get to posting some [...]

I was feeling a little lazy and uncreative about my photos for the past few days. Mostly because, like John, I hadn’t been able to take my camera out until night when the light was gone, and I had to scrounge around my house for something cool to shoot.
So today — day 9 of [...]

If you read the other blogs here at Digital Photography Blogs, you’ll know that in Southern California we’ve had enough rain that the local news channels have brought out their “stormWATCH” (notice the hillarious capitalization) screen graphics to that they can talk aout how devastating THREE TO FOUR INCHES of rain can be to [...]