Blog Archive
It’s always important to get family pictures on family vacations! So many times I’ve missed great opportunities for encapsulating the greatest of memories simply because I’ve forgotten to get a group shot. I’m still working on not forgetting, but here’s a few tips...
Here’s one of many gorgeous flower pictures taken on the family vacation to Grandfather Mountain last week. Flowers were everywhere! Flower in the Forest I don’t like to post a picture without giving a quick tip behind it. Usually, I will take super-close-ups of...
Today I drove down to Grandfather Mountain for a vacation with my family and to begin preparing for the CAPTURE North Carolina workshop! It’s gorgeous around here! However, instead of sunset finding us on a beautiful overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway, it found...
Been wrapping up these last big design projects! Here’s what I put together for MissionTalk as they prepare for a big conference the week after next. What’s the key for designing for big events? Repetition with variation! We stuck with one design that we liked and...
So, here’s another design project I finished up recently! And you might be asking, “Why so many design projects of late?” Well, as a photographer and designer, I try to do as many design related projects over the winter and early spring as possible because that’s...
Just finished working on a quick banner design for the ATI Regional Homeschool Conferences today. Colors, textures, and positioning changed over various versions throughout the process of approval, but here’s the version I liked best: I never work on a project...
The Desktop Publishing class here at Verity has been going very well! It’s hard to believe we’re so far into the week already. The majority of teaching is finished and now we’re focusing on covering the needs specific to each student and preparing for the...
As I was going through archives today, looking for some grand pictures to use in a new set of greeting cards that are in the works, I ran across this great shot from an excursion in the Sierra foothills near Mammoth Lakes, California. It didn’t quite make the cut...
You might think that after shooting landscapes for a while, I would know all about how to read the clouds. Well, I have to admit that I’m still just learning. The first time I began to realize the importance of reading clouds was during a visit to friends in New...
Along with my work on the 2014 CEF Calendar these past few weeks, I’ve been doing little projects along the side for MissionTalk. Today, my job was to design a newsletter template that will be sent to MT customers on a quarterly basis. I started with three...
This is amazing! Here’s an excellent FREE e-book I found the other day that gives 20 incredibly helpful tips for increasing your skills as a nature photographer. Not only was it beautiful to look at and informative to read, it was an inspiration for me to put...
Do you have a hard time getting your pictures to “pop” during the winter months like I do? Everything is dull. The sky and trees are grey, the grass and water is brown, and when the colorless snow falls, it smothers everything in a great blanket of off-white...
It actually snowed last night! What a great excuse to get outside and play around with the new camera! And how refreshing it was to be out in the “field” again. The 5D Mark II is very similar to my old 40D in appearance but has some nice improvements. The screen...
Just had to comment on a few shots from one of the photo excursions in Montana: Alone, Yet Not Alone Odd looking hay bail, eh? I could hardly believe there was a moose as far east as Bloomfield. The locals said it had been maybe 20 years since they’d seen a moose...
After sighting the grizzly bear, we continued on into the Many Glacier section of Glacier National Park fully intending to make it to Swiftcurrent Lake for sunset. We never made it, but this pull off worked well enough! About the Picture: I am finding out more and...
I have been almost a full week in the remote parts of Montana and South Dakota without cell phone reception or Internet. But now that I’m back in civilization, let me share some of the incredible images from this incredible excursion! About the Picture: It’s not...
Today marked the end of yet another amazing ATI Regional Conference! Does this picture look familiar? It is very similar to the group shot I took of the Indianapolis crowd last year, but this one is better, I think. I reviewed the steps of action that I learned...
I thought it was going to be a typical, cloudless morning when it started getting light at around 5:30 yesterday. But at 6:15, I noticed a few clouds heading east and got that feeling that they were really going to shape up for a nice sunrise. They just looked like...
After years of producing and selling honey on a small scale, my brother Michael is starting up a business to produce and sell honey on a much larger scale! Budding businesses like his are always in need of product images, so recently I’ve been taking some time to...
A few thoughts from a landscape photographer’s perspective on taking family portraits.
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