Did I travel to Mars for this shot? Nope,,, So where does one find such a creature as this? The Giant Isopod “genus Bathynomus; B. giganteus” is a deep water ocean crustacean. If you saw the whole body (sorry, I only photographed the head) you would see that it looks a lot like a big ‘ol 18″ rolly…
Morning. Today I woke up tired and grumpy…. that’s no way to be.. so I put my grumpy energy into a new piece of artwork. I selected the image of a mom and kid (Big Horn Sheep) having a conversation along a Mount Evan’s vista. As usual with this type of art I took creative…
A step by step tutorial on how I captured this set of lovely wildflowers along the side of the highway. Pretty images can still be captured in unlikely places with a little bit of extra work.
Be warned! You might not want to look behind this curtain. The photo you see here is telling you a straight faced lie. It’s so peaceful, so desolate… It’s the very epitome of quiet solitude. Right? Well, not so much. I captured this photo in Mesa Arch Canyonlands while leading a photography tour in…
I don’t know about you, but my skin crawls at the thought of a “JC Penny” style portrait. No matter how interesting a person may be, that basic head shot / studio type of image simply drains the life right out of your subject. Even if your subject look simply perfect, what have I learned about them by looking at a photograph like that? Does that cookie cutter portrait tell me who they are, what they enjoy in life, what they do for a living? Does it expose their personality, their dreams,,, anything? No, no and no…
A good portrait should mirror in some way, the person whom you are photographing.