It’s ridiculously hot out there — heat indexes well over 100 for days now — but the purple coneflowers in the front yard don’t seem to mind. I’m hoping it eases up a little tomorrow evening so that I can make another attempt at a twilight shot of the Eldridge Hotel. Finger’s crossed…

An assignment in my own home town has spurred a new personal project. When I moved to Lawrence, Kansas, a couple of years ago (has it been that long already?) I had intended to begin documenting the town photographically. While it seems like shooting in your own “back yard” would be the easiest thing in [...]

While upgrading my computer, I figured it was a good opportunity to start fresh with my browser bookmarks and get rid of the masses of links that I had that no longer went anywhere. Clean house, you know? Of course, there are still bookmarks that I need — things I look at every day or [...]

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time. While finishing up the keywording of my Thailand files in the last couple of weeks, I ran across a good example of what I’ve been wanting to discuss, and that is: how I use Google Maps to help me identify my images.
Of course, taking [...]

I’ve had fewer hours on the road lately but I’ve still been shooting fairly heavily. Instead of travel images, I’ve been working in the studio on some tabletop product shots. I could never be one of those catalog guys that does this stuff day in, day out, but I enjoy it as a break from [...]

After an ugly week in Bangkok, the protests have been dismantled and everyone seems to be waiting to see what happens next. This has been a tough time for Thailand. For a country that thrives on tourism, more tough times will likely be ahead. But this is a resilient region and hopefully the situation will [...]

From time to time I make a point of googling around to see if I spot any unlicensed photo uses or even licensed uses that I just hadn’t seen reported yet. This time I turned up something even more interesting:

I found this photo, provided by a Sharon McClure, on a Ripley County, Indiana geneaology site. [...]

Wrapping up day two of my Thailand trip were visits to a few temples including Wat Chedi Luang. Images from its prayer hall appear above. There are many, many temples in Chiang Mai — I believe I heard the number put at 1038 which hardly seems possible. On my fourth and last day in Chiang [...]

In the afternoon of my second day in Thailand, I visited some highland villages north of Chiang Mai. The people who live in this area migrated to Thailand over the last few centuries from China and Tibet. My first stop was a working village that was largely agricultural but had a couple of small stands [...]

I ended day one in Thailand at the night market in Chiang Mai. The market itself was fairly touristy — lots of t-shirts and trinkets — but the local traffic was colorful enough for me. I enjoy places where a large percentage of the traffic is on fewer than four wheels and Thailand is full [...]