Black & White

For better or worse, I am known for my color photographs. The great majority of them come in two flavors: both softly lit, warm-toned images made with the sun near the horizon, whether morning or evening, and bright, contrasty, saturated shots.  However, my roots have always been in Black & White. Like most of us […]

High Dynamic Range – HDR

Perhaps no technique since the advent of digital photography has drawn more interest and excitement than High Dynamic Range – HDR. The sensor in your digital camera has the ability to capture a finite contrast ratio. Each camera brand and model may be different, causing the particular ratio to vary, but whatever that resolving power […]

Depth Perception

As you may have noticed, we live in a three dimensional world. With apologies to Albert Einstein and his work on time as the fourth dimension, let’s keep it simple and just stick with height, width and depth for now.  Sculptors always take advantage of their chosen medium to express their vision while employing all […]

The First Time

We have long been used to the idea that our images improve as we gain greater familiarity with the locations that we photograph. Well, maybe. I am so familiar with places such as Delicate Arch, Badwater and Old Faithful that walking up to each of them almost seems like coming home. It’s familiar; it’s comfortable. […]