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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ? Marcus Aurelius

If you have yet to try Flipboard, an Android & iOS app for your phone or tablet, I highly recommend it. Up until a few months ago it was primarily a fancy news reader, but they’ve opened it up for people to curate “magazines” with interesting content. I’ve recently created a Flipboard magazine titled “Inspired Exposure” to curate inspiring photography and artistry. I invite you

Having just returned from central California where the grass has turned golden brown, I thought it might be nice to take a moment to go back in time a few months and revisit the views while it was green. Pictured in late afternoon light are the rolling hills near Morro Bay, California.   If you look carefully you can make out the view of the monstrous Morrow Rock, a 581-foot volcanic plug, in the distance. As always

One of the most amazing sights often overlooked on dark nights is the Milky Way.  Tired, road weary and focusing on the road ahead its easy for travelers to miss out on the the scene above them at night. On a recent trip to Yosemite National Park I made a conscious effort to stop the car every so often when driving to survey the night sky above me.  It wasn’t an easy thing to do due to a good amount of sleep de

If you’re interested in learning more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) I have a new article in the latest issue of Digital Photo Pro on the topic. The article weighs business and technical aspects of SEO and most importantly strategy. To get a glimpse of my thought process on SEO check it out: Search Engine Optimization How to get your name and website to rise to the top of a potential client’s search Als

One of the most difficult topics to discuss about photography and many other art forms is creativity. Creativity is an intangible that often isn’t recognized until it’s seen and often unappreciated until an artist has passed. This is one of the many reasons creativity isn’t discussed as much as gear. The tangible is always easier to grasp and has finite boundaries of understanding, where as creativi

One of the many things I love about Yosemite National Park is that it’s equally photogenic at night as it is during the day. During my last visit I focused on astro-landscapes, but Mother Nature had other things in mind with a lot of clouds. Fortunately for me the heaviest clouds cleared just in time for me to take this photo and several others. My location of choice was Glacier Point as the increased altitude

30 minutes of amazing transformation is all it took to change a drab gray stormy view of  Yosemite’s Half Dome and Nevada Falls into a dynamic fiery rainbow filled  scene. Literally in the 11th hour after a full day of foggy and overcast weather I witnessed a sunset like I’ve never seen anywhere in all my travels. As if scripted, storm clouds rose above Yosemite Valley and were illuminated by a thin pipe

A visit to the Monterey coastline just south of San Francisco, California never fails to inspire. Recently I decided to use this location to test some camera bodies (Hasselblad H5D, Nikon D800 and Canon 5D Mark III) and squeezed in a little extra time to try out a new Singh-Ray Mor-Slo 10-stop filter.  While I didn’t have time to stack filters and experiment further I was very happy with the outcome. Gear aside