Saturday morning was the Lawrence Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade. Lawrence’s parade is a bit unique in that it is all horses — until the very end when the street sweepers make a pass, of course. It was a great morning: blue sky and not too cold. We met friends and followed them back to their house [...]

A couple of kids that performed rope tricks for us during a quick lunch in Magdalena on our way from Puerto Vallarta to Guadalajara. It was a beautiful drive through rain forest, over mountains and through lush valleys but the people of Magdalena were the highlight.

I’m putting together some last-minute details for a Photoshop session that I’ll be leading in Guadalajara, Mexico, next week and grabbed this shot from my recent St. Louis trip to use for a dodge-and-burn demo. I found this “shrine” in a fantastically junky little shop on Cherokee Street. By duplicating the layer and setting the [...]

I needed a shot of some cherries for an upcoming episode of our vidcast, Travel by the Pint, today so we made a quick run down to the local grocery store and picked up a bag. Back in the “studio” (more of a spare bedroom, really), I set up a small light table left over [...]

It’s beginning to look like my days at home are numbered and soon enough I’ll be back on the road, in the air, and all over the place. Time to start warming up those shutters.
I’ve been walking the nearby golf course around sunrise lately and decided that it’s time I start bringing the camera along. [...]

I finished up the first week of shoots with JNA Advertising and Gizmo on Friday with Lori and Ryan in their wheat field in central Kansas. The next four days will bring ten more subjects in as many towns with lots of road hours in between. Everyone has been great to work with so far [...]

This could be a long one but I’ll do my best to be brief.
My wife has an incredible collection of family furniture. Originally Scottish, some of the family wound up in Montreal where they were prominent engineers involved in, among other things, the building of the earliest canals along the St. Lawrence. Wealth followed and [...]

I had dinner atop the Oriental Pearl Tower on my last night in China and hoped to finally get that dusk shot I’d been waiting for. Not only was it threatening rain, but I had learned the night before when trying to shoot the skyline that most of the buildings were not lit until about [...]

I mentioned in an earlier post that my main goal on this trip to the Shanghai region of China was to get a good, iconic skyline shot of the Oriental Pearl Tower and the recently developed Pudong area. I showed a photo of two nearby skyscrapers — currently the tallest in China — with a [...]

Stremel (streh’ mull) – To “Stremel”, it’s been “Stremelled”, I’ve been “Stremelling”.
Definition – the act of making an image largely through the use of luck. Term coined in reference to one Doug Stremel – the luckiest shooter on earth (although one Bruce Snell has also been instrumental in the development of the technique).
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These blown-glass [...]