June 2012

(© Ian Plant) Ancient Scottish lore tells of a creature called the selkie, a seal that could shed its skin...

Chuck Haney's American West video was submitted to the Timelapse Assignment. The non-narrative visual vignettes give us a different way of seeing the landscape. Haney's American West timelapse mixes still frames in with the motion and in one interesting juxtaposition, you see a nigh time lapse with the Milky Way in motion, then you see a still frame with the stars blurred due to the long exposure. It's getting two different ways of photographically recording the same event.

Free update increases buffer capacity to 25 RAW images

I’m kind of looking forward to heading back to Alaska next week. I say kind of because of the terrible...

When Nikon first announced the D800, and its genre-busting 36 MP resolution, I think the entire photo industry was surprised—myself...

I do not want people to forget that I am a landscape photographer. Sure, my work is increasingly focused on...

Night photography offers wonderful opportunities to be creative. The low light allows you to use long exposures to record movement,...

A little something for your weekend viewing.

I’m not sure that I like this image as much as the other wide-angle brown bear image that I shared...

“Who’s a happy bear?” That is what I would say to a big-old male brown bear who was sitting by...

New app is called Social Media Marketing for Photographers

As I have made progress editing my extensive backlog of unedited images, I have been discovering many wonderful photos like...

I photographed this brown bear backlit at sunrise while visiting Kukak Bay on the outer coast of Katmai National Park...

New Thermally Stable Composite material is used in the lens barrel

While visiting Seward, Alaska last month, I was pleasantly surprised to see my brown bear in lupine image on the...

Visual balance can sometimes be difficult to achieve in a photograph , but it can make the difference between a...

Click here to purchase Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographer’s Workflow I am happy to announce that the new version...

As I have been recently editing all of my older trips, I keep finding surprising gems like this image from...

I’m fortunate to live just a couple of miles from the Atlantic Ocean on the New Hampshire coast (yes, New...

Over the last few weeks, I have been diligently working on processing images from the trips that I have never...