December 2013

My Best Photos of 2013 began with a look at 56,721 selects from this past year. I think it is...

While composition and light are always vital, some aspects of wildlife photography are very different from landscape photography. With wildlife the subjects are moving, placing greater importance on anticipation, timing, and the ability to make quick decisions about framing and camera settings.

Sony has announced a Version 4.0 of the PlayMemories Mobile App with improved speed and connectivity as well as a...

Iceland in winter is a photographers dream. The sun rises around 11.30am and only gets high enough for the light...

It happens more often than any of us care to admit: the dreaded error message blinking on and off, or...

  Tucked away in the Northeastern corner of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia is the Lembeh Strait—an amazingly weird place.  Sulawesi is...

Congratulations to David Hammond for his winning photo in the Flocks, Herds & Schools Assignment.

Wildflowers, Mount Rainier, and a beautiful sunset. How grand a scenario, right? Well Grand Park, pictured here on Rainier’s northeast...

Snowflakes are an interesting photographic challenge. Their diminutive size brings many difficulties common to macro photography, and the cold environment...

  Klaus Priebe’s A Winter Moonset was submitted to the Bitter Cold Assignment. “New Years day brought a very chilly...

When I made the Bitter Cold Assignment last week, I didn't fully appreciate what the magnitude of the weather system that has covered the US would be. if nothing else, the biting cold and snow has, hopefully, given you some inspiration for this Assignment.

Congratulations to Patricia Davidson for her photograph, Reflected Light, which is the winner of the Close To Home Assignment!

I recently had the amazing opportunity of spending three weeks at the Antelope Island State Park, located in Utah, just...

With all the warm weather we had this winter, not having much needed rain, I noticed Calla Lily at Big...

In October I fulfilled a long-time dream: to photograph autumn aspens in the snow. I posted one photograph from that...

Patricia Davidson's Reflected Light photo was submitted to the recent Close To Home Assignment.

For photographers interested in taking images to the next level, the New York Institute of Photography now offers their Complete...

The area of the Cook Inlet near Silver Salmon Creek is noted for its healthy population of coastal brown bears...