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Over the past two weeks a few sites have come to my attention that might pique your interest. My friend Rebecca Jackrel has her work highlighted under the “Guest of the Month” section at the Conservation Photography web site of Delphin Ruché. Michael Frye has launched a new blog as an extension of his web site that focuses on Yosemite National Park Photo Conditions. Renowned photographer and friend Art Wo

I will concede that I am overly paranoid about backing up my digital photography and it has paid off. This week I’ve been dealing with a very unpleasant experience of having a drive fail on me. See The Best of Times, The Worst of Times The drive in question that failed is my working “production” drive where I store all my files from recent photo-shoots and my Lightroom libraries. I was able to exper

Earlier today Flickr announced on their blog they’ve kicked off Phase 2 of their effort to build the Flickr Collection on Getty Images by sending out invitations to various Flickr photographers. (See Building the Flickr Collection on Getty Images) I was one of the many photographers who received an invitation and decided to check it out. To cut to the chase for now I’m going to be passing on the opportuni

The past week has been full of adventures of sort. I regretably got very sick and have been knocked out by a bad cold. I’m still fighting it off and hope that you can avoid it. The past week has passed me by like the years passing by Rip van Winkle. It seems like only yesterday that I laid down not feeling so hot. Regrettably when I did get up I ended up dealing with a catastrophic hard drive failure and am sti

Once again 2008 proved to be an incredibly productive year for the many photographers who read the JMG-Galleries blog. The results of this “Best Photos From 2008” blog project puts a twist to the normal “Best of Photo” list by aggregating links to the work of 93 photographers from around the globe who are passionate and dedicated to their craft. The results from “Best Photos From 2007

It’s not often I get behind a commercial venture, but if I do its because I really have found it to be of value. Such is the case with the Epson Print Academy. Back in 2006 I attended the San Francisco event and walked away with notes I reference to this day. It’s for this reason and with great enthusiasm I’m announcing a JMG-Galleries blog exclusive: I’m giving away a total of 6 tickets ̷

In December during my last Sea Otter Photo Tour we witnessed some very rare Sea Otter behavior. We witnessed not just once, but twice a Sea Otter attacking a Western Grebe and then eating it. This is very unusual behavior as Sea Otters normally eat shellfish like crabs and clams. The boat captain that took us out had noted an attack he witnessed earlier in the morning and that he hadn’t seen anything like it in

Back in late August I got a chance to walk through the Central Library in downtown Seattle. I would have missed this had Chase Jarvis not been so emphatic in pointing out to me that it was a must visit. During my walk through I worked my way up to the highest point that I could and found a small platform to look down to the first floor. If I recall correctly it was about 8 stories up and looking down at the 1st floor

Since last year’s “Your Best Photos from 2007″ blog project was such a hit I’d like to continue the tradition by kicking off “Your Best Photos from 2008” blog project. After looking long and hard at my photos from the past year and posting My Top 10 Favorite Photos of 2008 I couldn’t resist putting together another blog project with the theme of “Your Best Photos from 2