Sometimes you just gotta take a break for coffee with a friend. That’s exactly what I needed today, Day 26 of the 30 Day Photo project. I’m totally running out of ideas for what to photograph, so I figured the funky lighting of a local coffee shop could make for a cool photograph. (Yeah, [...]

For my Day 12 shot of the Photo A Day project I happened to walk by some cool tree shadows on the way to my car from my office, and I couldn’t resist stopping for some photos. It made me realize that we are much too often looking at the objects around us for [...]

For my Day 11 shot for the Photo A Day challenge, I decided to revisit a cool old wall on our property that I had shot a couple days ago. I had originally photographed the wall on a day when I had toured the yard and had actually come up with a few other [...]

Every parent knows that the toy box (or basket in our case) is often times more fun than the toys inside. Throw an imaginative kid in and the thing becomes a rollercoaster, a racecar, or a fort. Knowing this, I threw our daughter into her toy basket and proceeded to watch her [...]

Our friends over at Photojojo have come up with some tricks and treats for taking ghoulishly great Halloween photos. (Sorry about all the goofy Halloween-speak. I just really love this time of year!)
It’s a great read, and I would totally suggest it for some helpful tips on photographing jack-o-lanterns (with links to great pumpkin carving [...]

A couple days ago, I mentioned that that I am going to do a few posts on some inexpensive studio setups. Well, it’s your lucky day because here’s the first of the two.
As I said, I’ve been doing some product shots for a company. It’s Saint Charles Shave, a small firm that specializes in shaving [...]

I’ve recently been engaged in some part-time studio work for a small company.  When I started, I needed to put together a better home studio so that I could obtain consistent shots.  Over the past 6 months, I’ve experimented with two different setups.  One is cheap, and the other is cheaper.  The added bonus of [...]

Anyone who’s visited our house could tell you that I love lights. Lots of them. I love small, colorful lights, none of which would be enough to light up much of anything on their own, but together create a magical warmth. So you can imagine how in awe I am of [...]