Run a Background Check: It’s Most of Your Photo
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: your subject is not the whole photo. I know, betrayal. You spent all that money on a big lens, got up before sunrise, skipped the second…
Expert Tips on Wildlife & Nature Photography
What’s in my Camera Bag? An Iceland Photo Adventure
Iceland is a landscape photographer’s dream location. The colors, textures, and generally otherworldly scenes and features throughout this tiny island offer incredible photo opportunities. However, the lens selections to give…
How to Get this Shot: Mid-Hop Roo
Name the animal after the place it lives. Makes sense. What if the place is named after that animal? Don’t care? That’s how you get the Kangaroo Island Kangaroo of…
Three Time-honored Ways to Photograph Wildlife in Africa
Who are we kidding, there are a million ways to photograph the incredible wildlife of Africa. However, when you distill African wildlife photography into key categories, you’ll find that the…
How to Get This Shot: Window into Zion (a.k.a. Drive-By Photography at 20 MPH)
There are few things in photography more frustrating than invisioning a killer photo and being told, “Cool, you get about two seconds to make that work.” Welcome to the Zion-Mount…
An Essential Lens for Photographing Greenland
When headed into a landscape-oriented photo trip, one often thinks about the classic landscape lenses first. You know, the 18-55mm or 24-70mm types. In other words, your wide angles that…
What Kind of Photographer Are You? (And Does It Even Matter?)
At some point, every photographer gets asked the question. “What do you shoot?” It sounds simple. Wildlife. Landscape. People. Travel. For some photographers, I’m sure that’s an easy answer. But…