I’m excited to announce that I wil be starting a new series of free live webinars, exploring various fundamental topics essential to landscape photography. The first one will take place on March 14th, 2023 at 7:30pm EDT (1930 UTC) titled “Exploring Composition in Landscape Photography.” It will be approximately one hour long, followed by Q+A and anything else you’d like…
Olympus E-M1 Mk II, 1/120sec @f/4, ISO 400, no filters, 104mm The more I photograph, the more I realize that the greatest difference between a successful image and all the others is the elimination of everything that isn’t necessary. It’s more than just simplifying the composition, it’s a sense that every element in the frame is contributing to a unified…
I’ve spoken and written often about the value of looking at different art forms as a way to expand your “visual literacy.” This starts by understanding that photography is based on a visual language that when properly used, helps us communicate effectively with the viewer. An analogy I often use is that the best way to become a better writer…
Olympus E-M1 Mk II, 24mm I’m finally back home after two weeks in Utah leading two consecutive workshops with an amazing group of human beings. That explains in part why I haven’t been writing much here recently. Workshops are highly immersive for me, and so I basically block out everything else that isn’t directly related to the students and the…
The ultimate quest for any landscape photographer is to convey his or her feelings about the subject in a photograph. To make the photograph more interesting than what was photographed. It’s the most important thing you can spend your time and money working on. Not more gear, more software, or more tools simply because they exist. Focusing on the tools…