Over a 2-week period in early May I travelled all over South Texas and up in to the Hill Country photographing birds.
It was a Texas twister of a trip with 10 ranches on the itinerary. I did have help and lot of it from John and Audrey Martin as well as Gail Hoffman from Images for Conservation. None of this would have worked out or would have even been attempted without their kind efforts.
It is ironic that the first step in digital workflow is to actually delete most of the images that you have worked so hard to create. The images that were created with promise and passion must now be looked on without emotion or feeling and be culled, killed, deleted, zapped, smushed, axed! Such a [...]
Bosque del Apache is one of my all time favorite photography locations. It also happens to be the first place I visited specifically to photograph. If you have been there you know there is no other reason to go! This was my fifth trip to Bosque and the first in several years and to my [...]
As programs like Lightroom getting more and more powerful there is less need to work on your photographs in Photoshop and at $200 a pop to upgrade, well you may want to learn about what’s new. To help without I am writing a series of articles exposing new features in Photoshop CS4. Today’s lesson is [...]
I spent the last week in Seattle and the San Juan Islands and just had a blast! First, the weather was stupendous. I’ve never been there when it was 75 and sunny everyday for a week. It really was just brilliant. It was also great because I got to hang out with my photo pal, [...]
The second “trick” to this picture is have as much depth of field as possible in order to keep that long bill and the eyes in focus. You MUST get the eyes in focus, so get your focus lock on an eye and then adjust depth of field for the bill.
I’ve been living in Florida for nearly two years and one of my favorite local locations is the Dunedin Causeway. Its easy, and its close and its productive. Hmm, what more could you ask for? I imagine that I have photographed the birds along the causeway 100 times and it never is boring.
I love creating digital paintings from my images. It is a lot of fun and the results are very satisfying. The whole process of manipulating images and making these pieces pf art sprung from making a really bad picture. It was the perfect subject and the perfect action and it was perfectly out of focus. [...]
Over the past few years I have had several opportunities to photograph cowboys and their horses. I was not very excited about it the first time, but I have to say it was really a lot of fun. The character of the cowboys and cowgirls and the magnificence of the horses is an intoxicating combination. [...]
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