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The Great Smoky Mountains is a very special place. I took the opportunity to spend a week camping in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. My main goal during this trip was to see some bears and hopefully get close enough to photograph them (without getting too close, of course). The early summer is a very active…
I became interested in photography when I was going through High School. I spent the first two years working in the schools darkroom (read: storage closet that also held a photographic enlarger). I also spent those first two years borrowing a Pentax K100o. Shortly before graduation, my Grandfather gave me an older Revuflex T SLR…
I have a ton of song birds around our property. If you have ever tried to photograph any songbirds you know that they can be tough to get a nice shot of, especially if you are not interested in “feeder” pictures. To get great shots of small song birds you must get close, and that…
There are so many file formats out there. Jpeg files are among the most common for photography. Jpeg is a standardized file format created by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (which is where it’s name comes from). Jpeg was standardized in 1992, so it is a very mature standard, and probably could use a little updating, but…
Backups. Surely there is something more fun and interesting to write a blog post about. We all hate doing them, but, at the end of the day , you need to have a solid backup plan in place. If you use a hard drive long enough it will fail, doesn’t matter what kind of drive…
My parents visited over the last weekend, and they stayed at a trout resort just outside of town. The resort they stayed at was located right on the river. The front porch has a river view with the boat dock just a few steps away. They had a fire pit and we came over to…
Kids. Kids and brides used to scare the #$^% out of me. When I first got interested in photography, I did not want anything to do with either of them. No way. No how. Of course, that was before I was married and had a daughter 😉 It is funny how that has changed over…
Seems like an easy thing to do, just point the camera at your subject, frame your subject and if it fits; shoot. If not, zoom out or zoom in. But, there is so much more to it than that. Different focal lengths provide different looks. Wide lenses will exaggerate distances, while longer lenses will…
I was talking to an older photographer the other day. He was from the film days. The days, when everything had to be done right in camera. And, he asked me if I used filters. In film photography, filters were a very large part of the process. You used them to color balance film,…
I started a new long term photo project today. I am photographing the flowers that are growing at our new house. [nggallery id=8]