Moose Monday! It has become a tradition to post a moose photograph each Monday. No problem. By my calculation have about a half million moose photos. I’m still nursing a severely strained back and just when I think I’ve made some progress, it reminds me that it’s not over with. I’m on phase three of…
Kentucky Road Trip
The thing I’m liking about retirement is not having to work if I don’t want to work. I’ve been laying up here at home the past few weeks, recovering from a back injury. The downtime has allowed my poor old pulled back muscles to return to functionality. I’ll have a few more days of rest…
No Advice, Just Train Photos
Cruise the Internet photography websites and you’ll find all number of expert photographers giving you expert advice. Advice that more or less repeats itself year over year. Have you ever noticed that very few of these world famous expert photographers share the actual photographs they take. I write my blog to share my photography. From…
How I Learned Landscape Photography
All photographers start somewhere. I began in High School, using my fathers film cameras. I continued on through my time in the Navy and became quite interested in Stereoscopic transparencies in the 70’s and 80’s. In the 90’s I had a panoramic film camera and a number of Instamatic models. It was 2004 when I…
Too Powerful To Not Be Seen
Sometimes I ponder different subjects for my blog and when I come up with an idea I’ll start an article with the expectation that I’ll return to it later and finish it up. That approach to writing works about one third of the time. More often than not though, my blog posts are spontaneous in…
Rejection and Redemption
Nobody likes to feel rejected. If you are in to stock photography, you will be rejected and more than once. It is a fact of life and I don’t normally dwell on the images that are rejected by any particular stock agency. Sometimes, you’ll find redemption. As in the case of today’s photograph of a…
Monte Vista – After Action Report
Every photography trip is different. This year’s Monte Vista trip was no exception. The story starts over a week before my friend Tim and I leave town. I normally schedule this trip for the week following the annual Monte Vista Sandhill Crane Festival. Mother Nature had a different idea. The “Bomb Cyclone.” Spring snow storms…
Rituals
I’m probably not alone but I have the same repeating process I go through for every photography road trip I take. A mental checklist, barely deviated from, hardly ever discussed and seldom thought about. Trudy’s mother announces that she’ll be making egg salad in honor of my leaving. I don’t eat egg salad, the girls…
Winter Runs Long in Colorado
The Bomb Cyclone moved through the state this past week. As a result of yet another snow storm, I postponed my trip to Monte Vista for 7 days. I’ll be heading out on this upcoming Monday with the hope that the weather reports are accurate and the Sandhill Cranes are still alive and well, and…
Out and About, Just Duck’n Around
The Arctic freeze has begun to break here in the Denver area. A bit colder and more frozen than a typical year in the Central Rockies has contributed a great deal to my laziness. Sooner or later the laws of physics will take hold and it will warm up. Yesterday was a warm day and…