Category: Articles

I Fractalius, Do you?
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I Fractalius, Do you?

Fractalius is digital art software from Redfield and it is really so much fun, they you’ll have a hard time stopping once you start.

onOne PhotoFrame ~ For FREE!
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onOne PhotoFrame ~ For FREE!

There is still a dark part of my brain that like to frame images and in particular there are times when a website design really “needs” a framed image. onOne software to the rescue.

Top 10 Things About My Snow Leopard Upgrade
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Top 10 Things About My Snow Leopard Upgrade

For my system it was absolutely worth the enormous $29 to upgrade! In the first couple of hours I can easily notice speed improvements and have no complaints about the process or the issues that I have found so far.

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Block Creek Natural Area

Block Creek Natural Area is about 400 acres of pristine Texas Hill Country that has been untouched and undeveloped. A remarkable feat considering it is only an hour drive from San Antonio!

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Great Texas Bird Trip – Martin Refuge

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.

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iBird Explorer

What a fantastic piece of software for the birder or perhaps even more so for the bird photographer.

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Introducing Photographer’s Alliance Workshops

I am quite pleased to not only introduce, but be a part of an exciting and brand new photography workshop company called, PAW!

5 Star Culling
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5 Star Culling

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 cruel [...]

CS4 ~ New Feature Exposed, Layer Blending
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CS4 ~ New Feature Exposed, Layer Blending

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 [...]

Washington State
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Washington State

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, [...]

Tutorial: Using Hi ISO
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Tutorial: Using Hi ISO

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.

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Site Guide: Dunedin Causeway

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.