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Ever wonder how to tell a story with your images? Here is an excerpt from the Celebrate Your Life in Beautiful Images (Part 2) course material to whet your appetite. Let's look at a slice of lemon meringue pie that I ate outside in a small cafe. It was summertime and...

Light is one of my favorite subjects to talk about…why? Because light is everything to me, and that’s why over the past five years of writing these posts I have written several on the subject; my mantra is you find the light, you’ll find the shot. In one of my online...

Are you spending a lot of time learning your digital camera? Maybe you're getting up early to shoot at just the right location, in just the right light? Are you getting the results you hoped you would? You’re not? Learning effective photo processing with a program...

How to deal with the unfortunate facial expression in group portraits To help you along during your portrait taking sessions, I’d thought I’d share a technique for a common problem with group portraits. Most of the time, but especially with shots including babies, if...

Do you want to learn to shoot great pictures with your iPhone camera? Do you want to learn to create spectacular images quickly and easily? With some basic photography skills and the help of some really fun apps, I’m here to tell you that the iPhone is a great camera....

I know what most of you are probably thinking right about now…has Joe sold out and embraced the rules of composition? Oh no Joe, say it ain’t so!!! Well relax my fellow photographers because I have definitely not sold out, or ever will; you’ll have to pry my dead cold...

In my Stretching Your Frame of Mind class, I give a lesson each week; made up of two parts. Unlike all the other classes, I allow each participant to submit up to two photos every day, and I create a video critique for every image. After someone starts submitting...

Ready for a big secret? To capture a sense of place in your travel photos, there are three main types of shots to take: overview shots, detail shots, and close-up shots. These are the types of images you’ll see in most travel and lifestyle magazine editorials. Stories...

Sometimes the simplest things, the most obvious things, are the things of which we need to remind ourselves most often. A few weeks ago we had a brief break in our usually grey winter days here in Vancouver. By late afternoon I noticed broken clouds filling in on the...