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As has become a tradition on the JMG-Galleries blog I’d like to invite you to take part in the 6th annual best photos of the year blog project. This is by far my most popular blog project. Year over year this project has continued to rapid increase in participation with last years participation hitting 289 participants (see Best Photos of 2011, Best Photos of 2010, Best Photos of 2009, Best Photos of 2008 and B

In case you missed it my article Social Media & ­­­­­Copyright was recently published in Digital Photo Pro magazine. This article is the second part of my earlier article Social-Media Marketing Essentials. Missing from my earlier article was a discussion of copyright concerns most common to photographers and other creatives. If you missed it I highly recommend reading it. While the social media landscape changes

Imagine being so far above the Earth that you see it in entirety. Odds are unless you’re an astronaut you’ve experienced this view as I have through photos from the Apollo missions of the 60’s and 70’s (ex. Earthrise) or through more recent images taken aboard the Space Shuttle & International Space Station. For those lucky enough to experience this view first hand it is understandably lif

To gaze upon a sunrise is a treasured moment, you only get so many opportunities to see them. Keeping that in mind it always pays to get up early. John Muir also had an eloquent quote, “God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”  I couldn’t agree more, but it’s easy to see how he came to that conclusion witnessing so many sunrises in Yose

Today the JMG-Galleries.com Blog jumps into its 3rd major incarnation with a new design. Over the past 18 months my old blog has become increasingly difficult to work with for a variety of reasons and it’s been a driving factor in my blogging less and less as of late. It’s tough to stay in a groove when you’re constantly fighting technical gremlins. While I consider myself a perfectionist, I can say

This weekend there was a reunion of todays most influential nature photographers: Frans Lanting, Thomas D. Mangelsen & Art Wolfe in San Francisco, California. The reason for their convergence here in San Francisco was the first, and hopefully first of many, Masters of Nature Photography lectures. Back in October at PhotoPlus Expo in New York City they gave a shorter presentation together and out of that grew this

When one thinks of a focal length ideal to nature or landscape photography 24mm usually tops the list. Historically use of a 24mm prime lens was seen as the ideal way to go and over the past decade lens technology has improved so much that wide zooms (14-24mm, 16-35mm, etc.) are now the norm.  The 50mm focal length on the other hand is seldom thought of as ideal for nature or landscape photography and more so for pho

One of the more interesting terms in photography is bokeh (pronounced bo-keh). Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur in the out of focus portion of an image. The word is derived from the Japanese word boke meaning blur or haze. Bokeh can be an important quality photographers evaluate when choosing a lens. This is particularly true when a photographer strives for non-distracting and smooth backgrounds. Nature, po