Shooting Video
December 28, 2012 - Shooting Digital Video with the Canon T3 Rebel in Peru
I always wanted to be involved in shooting video even way ba...
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Great Plains - Universal?
December 19, 2012 - The vast plains of Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, Wildebeest
The Tallgrass Prairie in the plains of Oklahoma, B...
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"The Stars at Night are Big and Bright"
December 18, 2012 - "Man, those stars are so bright", I thought to my self as I looked up from my sleeping bag in a remote part of Big Bend...
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Turn off IS and VR on a Tripod!
December 17, 2012 - For the last few years I have been troubled with sharp and not so sharp images in a series shot with IS turned on. In on...
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The Cycle
December 16, 2012 - In May 1999, we stepped off the aircraft in Anchorage, a point in time I will always remember. I had completed the CYCLE...
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Roundup!
December 10, 2012 - "We are going to be doing a roundup at the ranch, you know, branding cattle, and stuff like that. You interested in doin...
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Switching Priorities
December 10, 2012 - Dragging was about the only way to describe how I felt that morning. Up at 4:30 after being out photographing well into...
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Focal Point
December 09, 2012 - Almost every captivating image has a focal point, something that draws the eye in and doesn't let it get away except to...
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The Druids Would be Proud
December 08, 2012 - Visiting a customer in the little town of Alliance, Nebraska, I told the plant manager that I had heard of the town but...
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The Terminator
December 07, 2012 - In "NASA-Speak" the word terminator is used to define the narrow line that separates daytime from night, or light from d...
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ISO 1? Quick Post
December 07, 2012 - The instructions that we had for our tintype plates read as follows:
"Welcome to the wonderful world of tintype photogr...
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Kentucky Falls
December 07, 2012 - Just the name "Kentucky Falls" sounds like the back woods of the eastern US somewhere, right? Kentucky? Tennessee? Georg...
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STEPS
December 06, 2012 - We must have been on vacation! How do I know? It was raining. Camped in the rain in Rocky Mountain National Park, drove...
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A Special Photo!
December 06, 2012 - Our dog, Ranger, hated to have his photo taken. If I aimed a camera in his direction he would growl and snap at the lens...
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ISO 1? Are You Kidding Me????? Part 3
December 06, 2012 - About the Camera and Process
The camera was actually a reproduction of an 1870 Anthony tintype camera, single plate ver...
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ISO 1? Are You Kidding Me????? Part Two
December 05, 2012 - In 1975 Allen and I discovered a guy named Doug Elbinger who owned a tintype studio in Harper's Ferry, WV. He was sellin...
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ISO 1? Are You KIDDING ME????? Part One
December 04, 2012 - Way back in the mid 1970's I worked part time for Crenshaw's Studio in Denison, Texas. The studio was owned by Allen Cre...
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Wanderlust
December 01, 2012 - Wanderlust? It's in my blood!
I came from a family which did not go to the beach house EVERY year. Not us. No we he...
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