Food for Digital Thought: Color

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...

Unplug & Enjoy The Silence

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...

Yosemite Explosion

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...

Overcoming the Fear of Street Photography

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,...

Life Before Photoshop: Kanapali Beach Hotel

I often wonder what it would have been like if I had access to the products that are now being made by Adobe, instead of in the way back when Adobe was a type of house in the southwest part of the US. Would I not care as much about getting things right in the camera...

How to Shoot the Perseids Meteor Shower

It’s almost time for what can be an epic meteor shower every year – the Perseids Meteor Shower. This year it will peak in the early morning hours of Friday, August 12, but if you’re truly determined to capture the most meteor shots as possible, plan to shoot the night...
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