I am going to be doing some traveling this year for hiking, photography, camping, and fun and the thing that has been missing from my camera bag is a long zoom lens for shooting wildlife or even long focal length landscapes photos. So, I have acquired a Nikon Nikkor Z 100-400 f/4.5-5.6 VR S lens and… Read More NIKKOR Z 100-400mm Zoom Lens Review
Great Sand Dunes National Park is a park that features massive sand dunes at the base of a mountain range in Colorado. It is kind of a remote park in Colorado and the closest town that offers much of anything is Alamosa, which is more than 30 miles away. There is a lodge at the… Read More What Not to do at the Great Sand Dunes
I recently read a photography article that suggested taking a picture a day for 365 days. I have heard of this before but generally dismissed it as I figured that I’d probably end up with about 310 mediocre photos. But the argument of this article was taking pictures every day would help train your brain… Read More A Pic a Day
My daughter and I have been on a road trip north from Texas to Montana. One of the stops on our way was the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. When the need for our road trip arose, I took the opportunity to cross this national park off of my list of parks as… Read More Shooting a Panorama of the Great Sand Dunes
I was inspired to go try some woodland type photography after work one day last week. The sky was overcast so I thought it might be nice to shoot in among the trees with the diffuse light from above. Central Texas is not known for its woody forests, but there are some forested areas along… Read More Woodland Photography
Happy Easter! When it’s Easter there are usually a lot wildflowers to be found and I can’t resist taking a few close-ups of the flowers when I am out hiking. Yesterday I came across a rather large patch of bluebonnets on my hike and that gave me the opportunity to shoot close-ups and experiment with… Read More How to Shoot Flower Close-Ups
I did more than just shoot the stars at Lost Maples. I also did a bit of hiking on some trails that I had not previously been on. One of the trails passes by a feature called “Monkey Rock”. I have a photo of it below and you can see if you can figure out… Read More The Stubborn Sunrise
If you want to see the core of the Milky Way, you have to view it at the right time of year. As the Earth orbits the sun, the galactic core rises and sets at different times throughout the year. In the Northern Hemisphere this means that in the dead of winter the galactic core… Read More Milky Way at Lost Maples
Today I have some bluebonnet close-ups that I took in the park near my house. Bluebonnets mean spring and I haven’t seen the huge fields of them yet but there are many around my neighborhood park. First I went out in the morning to get the bluebonnets on the opposite side of the park from… Read More Spring Closeup
Does it really matter that much what time of day you take a landscape photo? I thought of this quite a bit while out hiking Friday afternoon. There was an old dried out tree branch that I have photographed before in the tall grass and there was a nice breeze as well, so I took… Read More Does an Hour Make Much Difference?
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