Category Archives: Photo Tips

How To (lighting),  Seeing & Thinking (process of analyzing a scene), &  Snapshots (info about a single image)

  Shopping season has begun… Looking for ideas you can pass on to family members bugging you for a gift list?  Bet they’d appreciate some ideas to buy online! I’ve compiled a list of products fitting for those of us who LOVE photography and travel. Many are practical. Most are appropriate for any ability– beginner […]

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Photographing Yellowstone in winter may not be everyone’s cup of tea…but if you’ve followed my posts you’ll know that winter is my favorite time to photograph Yellowstone…when frost coats boardwalks and deep snow blankets the ground, creating a stark contrast to the colorful mineral springs and textured thermophiles that flow among the terraces. But the thick […]

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  Photographers know that magic happens during the blue hour–that special time between night and day when the skies—even if they were grey and featureless during the day—turn from bleak to beautiful brilliant blue. Cool blue skies contrast oh so lovely against warm yellow tones, making subjects pop. So it’s the perfect time to photograph […]

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A portal to another dimension… Last month my family and I traveled to northeastern Arizona over spring break, and stayed at a unique lodge at Monument Valley that certainly deserved its name, The View. Built in 2008 on a sandy ridge, every room at this Navajo owned hotel features a balcony that faces the famous […]

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