Photo Info: Canon 1Ds Mark III, 840mm (600mm + 1.4x TC), ISO 100, F/25, 1/40 sec On the evening of Thursday the 12th of December and the morning of Friday the 13th December of 2008 there was a perigee moon that I was eager to photograph. Unfortunately Friday the 13th came early, clouds obscured the moonrise in the San Francisco area Thursday evening. Friday I happened to be up early in order to drive out to photograp

With a better understanding of My Journey with Photography Watermarks and how the Evolution of a Watermark has factored into my online marketing, I wanted to share how these efforts have translated in my reaching new audiences and generated new client opportunities. Effort and Reward of Watermarking No doubt many after reading my first to articles on the topic of photo watermarking are asking, “Why put yourself

Having covered the basics of watermarks and why they’re important to use in my earlier post My Journey With Photographic Watermarks, I wanted to take you on a journey of how I’ve employed watermarks over the past 10 years. Not only do I plan on digging my old watermarks out of my archive I’ll tell you what I was thinking when I used them and why I decided to change them. As previously discussed wate

This past weekend I finally got around to revisiting some work from a couple years back when I was in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The trip was fantastic and yielded an amazing amount of imagery. Whether you’re aware or not, the photograph in the header banner of this blog was taken in the Arctic Refuge and is part of the large set of photographs, several hundred, I reviewed and released this weekend. W

Watermarks are one of the most under appreciated, yet most important components of online marketing of photographs. As a photographer my photography always comes first. Upon first read you are correct in reading this statement that I will always look to capture a scene as best as I can artistically and technically. This statement also holds a less obvious significance in that my photography is one that I always wish

It’s seldom that lens lust will get the better of me, but its looking like it happening. Canon’s announcement of the 17mm Tilt-Shift lens (not to mention the 24mm Tilt-Shift II lens) has my attention. While I have the 24mm Tilt-Shift I at the moment I’m most interested in the 17mm Tilt-Shift. I’ve been out recently with my 24mm TS and been stymied by the narrower field of view. For most the 24

Earlier this month I had the great fortune to attend the Epson Print Academy for the 2nd time in roughly two years time. The first time I attended I took part in Track 2, the more advanced of the two tracks offered, with Jeff Schewe, John Paul Caponigro, Mac Holbert and Greg Gorman. This year I again took part in Track 2 led by Jeff Schewe, Mac Holbert and Andrew Rodney. I wasn’t sure how much I’d pick up

For those that took an interest in my earlier post regarding Facebook’s revised Terms of Use “Facebook’s Terms of Use: From Bad to Beyond Worse“, news is just now coming out that Facebook has reverted to an older version of their Terms of Use dated September 23, 2008. Another notable development is that Facebook has created a Facebook Bill of Rights group to solicit feedback to future changes to the