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Few spectacles are as impressive as the rising of the full Harvest moon. It’s just incredible! This image shows the September, 2016 Harvest Moon rising through the North Window in Arches National Park. If you look closely, you can even see other people enjoying the...

The Photo Essay class walks students through the entire process of creating a photo essay, from choosing a story through selecting the final 20 images. Come learn a working method you can use to create further photo essays. Examples: Each essay created in the class...

- BPSOP Instructor: Scott Stulberg Most of the time when we are photographing, we're thinking about the perfect exposure. We don't want to underexpose or overexpose our images but we especially want the main subject to have the right exposure.  But not often enough do...

Food for Digital Thought: You know you got it child, if it makes you feel good What do you do if you know you’ve just taken a great photo…a keeper…an OMG shot???? Do you do react differently when you’re alone verses when you’re shooting with someone else? Is it a...

The Milky Way arch is a beautiful sight to behold – especially when you’re standing thigh-deep in lavender fields! This panoramic image was made while assisting Bryan Peterson during his recent photography workshop in lovely Provence, France. It was made from two rows...

When I go out shooting, I never look for a particular subject. For example: flowers, fences, boats, cars, buildings, planes, trains, rivers, oceans, etc. What I look for is color, and color is often the subject. A white picket fence is not just a picket fence. It’s a...

Life is a series of moments strung together. ​How do want your moments to look ― carefree or a flurry of activity? It's easy to be relaxed when things are going well. It's another thing when things are ​busy, busy, busy. Rather than declaring stress one of life's...

The 2016 Perseid Meteor Shower was certainly memorable – made all the more so from a scenic perch high above iconic Yosemite Valley. This image is a composite of 25 separate images selected from an all-night set of sequential exposures during the night of August...

You enjoy travel photography, and like photographing people in different culture and places. However, sometimes, you are just lack of courage to approach strangers, or just too shy to raise your camera towards your intended subject, fearing the rejection. Believe me,...