Since my wife joined the Board of Trustee’s for Wilson College, the women’s college she attended in south Central Pennsylvania, I have the advantage of tagging along with her  three times a year. This year found us slotted between two storm systems. I was hopping  for snow but we got  warm weather. One sunny day I was able to get out and get some nice images of the country, barns and some horses.
Here are some of the images from this

Quite by accident, I stumbled upon Ian Roberts’ book Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to dramatically improve your paintings as I browsed a local art’s store looking for some printing supplies. The timing could not have been more appropriate as I found myself at a point where I was questioning my composition techniques and felt I needed a push from someplace. I was so impressed with this book that I ended up buying several additional copies and sent them to

“The more you understand what inspires you, the more readily you can put yourself in its path”  David duChemin
This is the beginning of a long discussion on the art of photography, what other professionals are shooting, a study on composition and a look at creative authenticity, just to name a few of the topics. I intent this discussion to be different from what other photographers have presented and some of it will be a compilation of their written thought. However,

A recent driving trip to the San Francisco Bay area gave us the opportunity to visit the Northern California coast. Although time was limited and the weather not necessarily cooperative I was able to capture some nice images of the Cape Cabrillo Light just north of Mendocino, Ca.
Here are a couple of those images along with a highlight of others of the Oregon and Northern California Lighthouses captured over the last several years.

Mr. Jack Dykinga had a rather interesting article in the March 2010 issue of Outdoor Photographer titled “Transforming Large Format.” Mr. Dykinga, a long time user of large format cameras, described a technique that he uses a standard DSLR and tilt/shift lenses to produce a image file the seize of a medium format camera. While the description of the technique was a little ambiguous in the article, essentially one mounts a DSLR vertically on a tripod with a tilt/shift lens

A photographer friend passed along to me the request by John Nack of Adobe for samples of images processed from another raw converter in which the photographer felt that their processor  did a better job than Lightroom. Of course the message was accompanied with a challenge for a couple of us to prove our Capture One Pro was a better raw processor than LR. I took on the challenge and I have spent the better part of the  last several

A couple of months ago I added an Eizo CG 241W Monitor to my work station and am very pleased with its performance. Initially, I was not sure about its build in profiling system as it would not allow me to adjust the brightness, but after working with it for a while, I became very confident of its performance. The monitor definitely has its own profiling system which only needs a measurement tool, like a X-rite Eye-One, Color Munki or

The other evening I return to Queen Ann Hill’s Kerry Park in Seattle to update my images of the Space Needle, the Seattle Center, downtown Seattle and Mt. Rainier. Seattle has experienced considerable development over the last several years; about the same age as the last images I took from this spot so it was time for an update of the Seattle skyline.
In my years living in Seattle and more specifically, being involved in Photography, I have probably ventured to

Geo-tagging is becoming a fairly hot topping in scenic and travel photography and I thought I would make the plunge by purchasing  JOBO’s photoGPS. This is a rather small device that mounts to the top of a camera in the flash hot-shoe. The photoGPS is rather small, 2 1/2 inches long, 1 3/4 inches wide and 1 1/4 inches high. It is easily carried in your pocket and in your bag as well as not being too expensive.
Essentially, one slides

Adding a blog to a web site is such an interesting process. The first thing I learned was to be very careful in allowing comments. In a very short order I was inundated with all kinds of comments from outside the US having nothing to do with photography or the subject at hand. I will leave it up to the reader to determine the subject matters.
Next is just the process of managing a blog, its format, incerting images and making