Category Archives: Photo Tips

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

Sometimes it can be a little overwhelming when you first arrive at a new location with camera in hand. Where do you start? What should you photograph? What lens, and how should you shoot it? How to vary compositions when shooting? Obviously everyone approaches photography differently. (That’s what makes it exciting to go shooting in […]

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During baseball season, fireworks are displayed on Fridays after every home game the Reds play in Cincinnati. After the game it’s about a 20 minute wait before fireworks begin, allowing time for the spectators sitting in the right outfield bleachers to move over to the other side of the stadium. It’s worth the wait, cauz […]

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South Africa is more than a melting pot of different cultures. Talk to any South African and they’ll tell you that they don’t just tolerate each other. They embrace their differences. And celebrate their diversities–whether it’s culture, language, color, gender or race. In 2010, according to their Cape Town Carnival website a South African group decided […]

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It’s all over the news, Facebook, and twitter…people sharing funny, strange and incredulous anecdotes about how the cold weather is affecting them. Record lows have been dropping below zero all over the country, as far south as Florida. No doubt most not accustomed to the chilly air are hiding inside. But what about those who […]

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  Winter solstice, December 21, is here–the shortest day and longest night of the year.   Although it does not mark the official beginning of winter–good thing cauz we’ve already had lots of snow!–it does seem to herald the beginning of Christmas and soon after another new year.   Some people hate winter, some love […]

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