Presenting at the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Site Photo Workshop

April 23, 2012 General

Photo: Bill Urbin, National Park Service This weekend I gave the keynote presentation at the Community Photo Workshop program at the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Historic Site in Hyde Park, NY, part of the National Park Service. While I forgot to announce it here, I did mention it on my Facebook page and also via the last newsletter, [...]

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The Importance Of Your Own Voice in Photography

April 19, 2012 Craft

Annapolis River Marsh, Nova Scotia “A great photographer’s power is the product of light and composition. This might be called the photographer’s voice. Repeating the composition of another, even if the light is different, pointlessly repeats what has already been ‘said’. It is mere mimicry. Photographer’s should strive for their own voice, strive to say [...]

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Large Format Printing and Paper Selection

April 18, 2012 Craft

Choosing the right paper for your prints can be overwhelming these days given all of the choices available, and especially critical with large print sizes. Recently I had to make 17 large prints for two corporate customers, NYU Langone Medical Center in NYC, and Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, a suburb of NYC. I strive to [...]

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Ingonish Harbour, Nova Scotia

April 15, 2012 Photo of the day
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Visually Managing Your Data With DaisyDisk

April 6, 2012 Photo Gear

Here’s my system drive showing where most of my largest files are – my Home folder. One of the challenges of digital photography and computers in general is storage – you never seem to have enough of it. Applications are getting bigger, photo and video files take up huge amounts of space, and we’re generating [...]

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April 2012 Free Desktop Wallpaper

April 2, 2012 Wallpapers

The April 2012 Free Desktop Wallpaper is now available for download. Cape Breton National Park in Canada has some of the most amazing coastlines in the world, and the different colors and shades of granite provide fantastic opportunities for landscape photography. As always, come closer to nature in Cape Breton. 1920 x 1200 1920 x 1080 [...]

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