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Weather conditions single handedly can make or break landscape photos. While out photographing California Oak trees the other week the fog rolling through the area set a great mood and enabled me to capture photos with a lot of “atmosphere”. It’s important to note that fog not only mutes lighting, but it mutes contrast as well. Depending on your photographic style foggy conditions provide photograph

When people think of places that exemplify the holidays New York city often comes to mind whether because of movies past or just because many of the morning news programs are filmed in downtown New York city. This past weekend my wife and I returned to Manhattan to take in all that New York had to offer for the holidays. As always it proved to be quite a bit of fun from watching the kids and adults a like being awed

As we near Christmas I thought a winter photo might be in order. Taken in Yosemite National Park, earlier in the year, these trees lack the decorations we’ve come to expect around Christmas time, but natures patterns and textures provide their own rich decoration. Although I’m out of pocket at the moment and am on a shoot before the holidays I thought I would wish everyone a Merry Christmas. View More Pho

Another photo from my Monday photo outing. On the scale of good to bad of the photos I’ve highlighted so far (The Good, The Bad) this is the worst and as such is “the Ugly”. Photographed is a close up of a fallen Oak with fog shrouded living Oaks on a hillside in the distance. What warrants giving this photo the “Ugly” destination?  Well in concept I liked the idea of creating a juxtapo

Last week in my post Here Comes Another Fair Use Dispute I discussed the on going dispute between the Lane Hartwell and the Richter Scales over the unauthorized use of copyrighted imagery. The latest update is that the dispute has gone unresolved. The Richter Scales rather than dealing with their actions and seeking resolution with the artist have chosen to turn their back on the issue and have re-released a new vers

As noted yesterday my Monday photo outing was a lot of fun. I captured some landscape and nature photos that I’m proud to show and others that fell short. It is these botched photos of the day that I wanted to post and discuss this week. Yesterday I posted The Good… a la the theme The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Today I wanted to post what I considered an example of The Bad. If you’re like me you sa

Monday I took the day off to get out and get some photography under my belt. I was joined by a good friend of mine who introduced me to some new areas to photograph iconic California Oak trees. With conditions nice and foggy it created some beautiful photographic opportunities. I have to admit this portion of the day went a lot smoother than later on when I botched some shots. During this shoot I got several good sho

I’ve been feeling a little under the weather as of late so my Friday post is going out a little late. In keeping with my water theme for the week here is a photo that has grown on me. This long exposure was taken at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica at sunset. The surf has a misty quality to it, the surfers have nearly become washed out and the pastel hues accentuate the landscape creating a surreal scene. I think at

Self-admittedly I am a statistics junky. If I employ a service, I like to monitor the traffic and trends. I’ve done this since the day I launched my web site and I’ve done it for my Digital Railroad, Photoshelter, and PodBean (for my podcast) accounts as well. I’ve found some tools for Flickr but they’ve been pretty limited. I’ve regrettably been monitoring the numbers by memory. Today F