Last week I took the opportunity to photograph several amazing sights in Yosemite National Park ranging from night & astro landscapes, moonbows and blooming Dogwoods. The later is what captured my eye by day. This is the first time I’ve seen Dogwoods in optimal conditions. In the past I’ve always seen them after a storm or a little too late in the season. One thing I can say after seeing Dogwoods in p

When you first enter Yosemite National Park it is impossible to miss El Capitan. Towering some 3,000 feet above the valley floor with a peak elevation of 7,573 feet its a feast for the eyes and an attractive challenge for several hardy rock climbers. The more I visit Yosemite the more I see visitors accept the walls of the valley as an unmoving constant, but if you stop to really watch the valley walls you’ll n

Friend and filmmaker Steven M. Bumgardner (@yosemitesteve) has released  ”One Day in Yosemite“, a short film created by 30 filmmakers who spread out across Yosemite National Park to document a wide spectrum of activities that occur in one 24 hour period. This short film was an incredible logistical challenge that after months of editing sheds light on the concentrated diversity of activities one can enjoy

Wishing all of my readers and fans a happy and safe holidays. May all your holiday wishes come true. Photo Details: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon 50mm f/1.0 at f/1.2, 1/50 sec using the DIY Photography Bokeh Master Kit

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

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

One aspect of night photography that I particularly enjoy is the slow calm of the stars and moon passing over. For some this might seem as exciting as watching paint dry, but when you’re under billions and billions of stars that slow calm quickly gives way to pure awe. This still is from a time-lapse, so at some point soon I’ll share what this scene looked like as it unfolded in a faster timeframe than th