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High & Low Impact….they’re both important.

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The one thing that is missing from the work of many of today’s best new landscape photographers is pretty simple……it’s the ordinary. Their work is spectacular and I love it, but there comes a time when you have to rest … Continue reading →

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Blogging and Cropping

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Blogging and cropping?  Actually writing a blog and cropping (or composing) an image are similar.  How to edit a blog, or better said how to arrange a blog, has a lot in common with cropping/composing a picture.  What to leave in, … Continue reading →

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Rambling On

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I love creating landscapes that combine different colors, textures and shapes in a single image.  A great example of this are images from The Badlands of South Dakota.  Just the same, the image (s) that have occupied the corridors my … Continue reading →

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Getting Lucky

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Sometimes I think that non-nature photographers believe that nature photographers, just look around and shoot whatever we see.  If we make a great shot, we got lucky.  If the colors come together, we got lucky. If that animal is bursting … Continue reading →

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When Bad Is Good

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My had my first view of The Badlands when I was a child headed towards Yellowstone N. P. with my parents.  I could understand why this was called The Badlands. Could you imagine the troubles Indians had with this piece … Continue reading →

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3 + 3 = 26.………pictures that is

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There are  three species of swans, and  three species  of Mergansers that are found in this part of the world.  Today’s post is about those birds. This is not meant to be a scientific/natural history article.  It is about my … Continue reading →

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Petal…ing

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Before you know it, spring will have sprung and many of you will once again be crawling around on your hands and knees, photographing one of the most popular subjects in nature….flowers.  From fields with hundreds of thousands of flowers, … Continue reading →

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The Spirit of Adventure

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Notice that I called this article the “spirit” of adventure. The spirit of adventure can mean many different things.  The first time I stood in front of an audience, I considered that to be embracing “the spirit of adventure”  The … Continue reading →

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The Whole Story

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There are a lot of different ways to capture wildlife subjects with your camera. There are artsy shots and beauty shots.  There are journalistic images and even photos of horror.  There is a wide variety of lighting conditions in which … Continue reading →

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Close-up

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There is no form of nature photography that carries you and those who view your images, “into” the subject, like close-up photography.  No matter what kind of photography is your specialty, if you have never done some type of close-up … Continue reading →

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