The April 2015 Free Desktop Wallpaper is now available for download. I've also decided to change the format to include more of my standard images instead of the panoramas. Hope you like it! As always, come closer to nature in the Great Smoky Mountains. 1920 x 1200 1920 x 1080 1680 x 1050 1280 x 800 Instructions: First determine…
“Music is powered by ideas. If you don’t have clarity of ideas, you’re just communicating sheer sound.” – Yo-Yo Ma
Olympus E-M1, f/2.8 @1/1250 sec, 40mm, ISO 400 On every workshop that I teach we visit many beautiful and inspiring locations that I carefully choose beforehand. This involves hours of research, hiking, scouting, note taking, map reading, and simply spending time in nature. I want to provide an optimal experience for students to practice the art and craft of photography. To…
I'm in the small town of Townsend, Tennessee just outside the Great Smoky Mountains teaching a 4 day workshop next week. It's a long 12 hr drive from my home, but thankfully I made it safe and sound. It's always hard to leave the family for two weeks, but the internet makes the distance seem much less than it is,…
"Light Tree, Great Smoky Mountains" / Canon 1DS Mk III, f/8 @1/160 sec, ISO 400, 170mm "I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied. Then, in my head, I begin to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth... I hear and see the image in front of me…