Category Archives: Photo Tips

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Driving home from Frankfort, Kentucky, I saw this tobacco barn not far from the highway near Shelbyville. Spotting one of these tobacco barns is not so easy anymore as tobacco farming is becoming a rare find in a land where tobacco was once the king of crops. In fact, 90% of all tobacco farms have […]

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Last night, on September 27, 2015, the super moon and lunar eclipse combined to create a rare celestial event that will not be repeated until 2033. This type of lunar eclipse has only happened 5 times since 1900, so consider yourself lucky if you were among the thousands of people staring up into the sky […]

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After a wonderful family vacation on Vancouver Island, Dave, Jordan and I rode the car ferry from Victoria to Washington state to fly home from Seattle. Driving along the northern coast of Washington’s Pacific Northwest, we stopped in Sequim to stretch our legs. We wandered out on Dungeness Spit, a long curved sand spit that […]

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Today is the worldwide celebration of photography… Monk performing the Black Hat dance at a religious festival in Bhutan What incredible advances have been made since the film days…Remember bringing in those rolls of film to get developed, paying money, opening the packages and getting bummed when pics came out under or over exposed? Did […]

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