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Kids would play all day if we let them. Be like a kid and play with your camera. Have fun with it. Get close. Get closer. Isolate your subject. Try unexpected camera angles. Get down low and look up. Get up high and look down. Be inspired by these images Terri Brown...

Spring has always been a wonderful time of year for landscape photographers to find themselves in Holland. Throughout much of the area called West Friesland, the once frozen dark soil is transformed into an explosion of color as thousands of tulips rise from the many...

Meet Lexi. Everyone smiles when they see her, so let’s join Lexi on her walk with David Hancock, who took these images during the “Celebrate Your Life in Beautiful Images” class. 
Lexi is a terrier and does what she wants, but how can anyone ever get mad at that sweet...

Auto White Balance: it’s one of the first things I ask my workshop students to turn off. When outdoors, choose Daylight or Cloudy white balance instead. Indoors, tungsten white balance will generally provide more pleasing results. Allowing your camera to decide...

I always think that I was fortunate to not have studied photography, but to have studied art instead.  That’s not to say Photography isn’t art, because I’ve been preaching to my fellow photographers that take my online class with BPSOP, and my “Stretching Your Frame...

This image shows the constellation Orion floating above Mt. Whitney, the tallest mountain in the continental United States, framed by the iconic Möbius Arch.  It took over fours years from conception to curating. The key to this image’s success lies in several...

I've just finished shooting a patch of ostrich ferns near my house. Ferns fascinate me, I love the curves, the repeating lines and patterns, and all that green! They are one of my favorite photography subjects in the Spring. Patterns make great subjects! When you...

A student asked how I stay engaged with friends and family while photographing our shared moments and if my capturing these images takes me away from being fully present. He also wanted to know if anyone get annoyed with me taking time out to shoot. Here are my...

Shoot in RAW. Shooting in JPG allows the camera to process the image for you, making choices without your consent and compromising data in the file that you may need later for a better BW conversion. Pay very close attention to composition. With color removed from...