July 2013

Here it is! My latest ebook, Landscapes in Lightroom 5: The Essential Step-by-Step Guide, is now available. I’m really excited about this new ebook, because I’ve been able to incorporate features that make this more of a hands-on learning experience. First, you can download the original Raw files used as examples in the ebook, and then follow along with each step yourself – just as if you were attending one of my workshops.

Roger Hill's photo of an EF4 tornado near Bennington Kansas is today's Photo of The Day. The photo is called Violent Beauty.

Jackson, Wyoming…this is all going to make sense momentarily, just bear with my rampant train-of-thought diatribe (maybe a bit harsh...

In this incredible photograph, Richard Gottardo caught multiple lightning strikes near Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He saw the potential in the weather system that was forming and he went to an vantage point above the city in the hopes of getting a good photo.

Photographer: Lace Andersen: “Whenever I decide to photograph a sunrise this beach on Kauai is my favorite location. I actually...

I’d visited Beachy Head in East Sussex without a camera on a couple of occasions in late 2009, however it...

Near Broken Bow, Nebraska, Erik Perozo took this dramatic photograph and he submitted it to the Stormscapes Assignment which is open through the 31st of July. When this storm was forming, Perozo saw the potential for the photograph, but he wasn't in a good position to get the exact shot he wanted.

Unified Color Technologies has announced upgrades to the HDR Expose 3 stand alone software and the 32 Float V3 Photoshop...

Today’s Photo Of The Day was submitted to the OP Your Favorite Places gallery. Jeff Zimmerman took the photo near...

When people think of photographing a reflection, they usually think of a mirror reflection, like a mountain reflected in a...

The Best Of The Assignments Submissions From outdoorphotographer.com

Beautiful lighting, an offshore breeze and a perfect moment on a not so extreme wave.

(© Ian Plant) Over the past few weeks I’ve shared a number of my favorite images from my trip to...

National Parks Assignment Winner Kristal Leonard's photo of Half Dome by moonlight was the result of seeing the potential for a photo then persevering through several frustrating attempts to get the photograph.

Aaron Meyers' photo from Volcanos National Park on The Big Island of Hawaii was submitted to the National Parks Assignment which has been held over until tomorrow 7/16. Photographing the lava flow can be dangerous because of the obvious problems of dealing with molten rock.

I took this shot at the Okefenokee Swamp in Southern Georgia. There are three entrances to the swamp and I...

My photograph titled “Island Moon” was taken along the northern shore of Lake Superior, within Ontario, Canada. This has been...

Spacing and separation are always important elements of composition, but during my recent workshops in and around Redwood National Park...

Glenn Flothe’s dramatically-lit photo of trumpeter swans was submitted to the OP Your Favorite Places gallery. The swans were photographed...

Shoot The Moon Assignment Winner Nitin Kansal's photo of Mt Whitney, Mobius Arch and the moon was the result of going back to the location several times over the course of a 2012 trip to the area.