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I’d like to express my gratitude to Keith and Melanie Bartholomew for their inviting spirit, which allowed Jo and me to be part of a memorable drone and boat photography expedition exploring the beauty and wildlife of Cedar Key. Unfortunately, a mere twelve days after our visit, Hurricane Idalia struck northwest of this region, bringing high winds...

I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. I’m not talking about boxing. I’m talking about the beauty of nature, specifically, the butterfly and the bee. When it comes to photography, these two creatures are in many of our backyards and are fascinating subjects to capture. The butterfly, this Monarch with its delicate wings, vibrant colors,...

It's like I'm a moth drawn to the light. I've shot this landscape so many times but each time I try something a little different. The core of the Milky Way with Jupiter and Saturn rising over Florida’s Gulf Coast. Camera/Lens: Nikon Z7 / NIKKOR Z 20mm. For the sky portion of this image, to get sharp stars with no star trails, I used a MoveShootMo...

Photographer Olis Garber shares the story behind the planning and execution of this composite of the Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse. This is one of my favorite spots along the Gulf Coast of Florida for dark sky photography and is one of only a handful of dark sky locations I know of in the South East United States. Keith Bartholomew and I found t...

After days of planning and setup, halfway through a six-hour round-trip drive, two hours into a planned four-hour shoot; at 10:13 PM the hiss of compressed air faded as my can of bug spray emptied. Eyes burning from a mixture of sweat and insect repellent, sandals and pants covered in mud and soaked with saltwater, shirt drenched in sweat, glasses...

Been working on Florida landscapes lately with my friend Keith, scouting for landscapes of what Florida looked like decades ago where we could also do star photography. We ended up near where I grew up on the gulf coast, where it's mostly jeep and pickup truck territory. An area of dirt roads, snakes, and gators and where occasionally, paying atten...

An average of 10 people in Florida are killed by lightning strikes annually and 40 are seriously injured. Of those killed by lightning in Florida: 98% were outdoors. 89% were male. 30% were age 10-19. 20% were age 20-29. 25% were standing under a tree. 25% occurred on or near water. Of the 50 United States, Florida is the lightning capital....

The Dark Side of the Moon (Nikon D850 shooting techniques) That song was playing over the XM radio as we drove our Jeeps out of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. Bill, Terry, Izabela, Keith, and I had camped off a dirt road, at a spot that set us up for star photography later that night. From our campsite, it was a...

It was a nice experience being an exhibiting Artist at the Mandarin Art Festival which I got to share with my family (they ran the booth). Long story short, this wasn’t planned. Got a phone call on a Tuesday from the President of the Mandarin Historical Society. Sandy was looking for a photo of the Mandarin tree canopy for her friend Susie, the Di...

The images in GALLERIES are available for printing. As Metal Prints, Acrylic Prints, Canvas Prints, and Framed Prints, I provide high-quality professional prints delivered right to your home and office. For example, these two images in GALLERIES / Waters Edge, were recently selected for wall art prints. The client(s) went with 24” x 30” (29”...

Get lucky with clear winter skies, wear lots of layers for 36° temperatures (yes, this is Florida), set up at 4 AM with a dramatic foreground (like the Jacksonville Skyline) for a 7:15 AM Moonset. Have a big vision, pay attention to details, get a shooting buddy for motivation, and a thermos of hot coffee. I started preparing for this shoot about...

Shooting landscapes, people, products, and BIF. From this image taken in early October, I saw the potential in the D850 with improved focus tracking and more detail in the files. I do a fair amount of pixel peeking, looking closely at the original raw file in Lightroom (8256 x 5504 pixels) @ 3:1 magnification, I could count (if I had the patient...

The solid morning cloud cover finally broke and weather conditions set up nicely for the middle part of the second day of the Air Show. This year the Jacksonville Air Show was at NAS, the previous year it was at the beaches. At NAS, it seems like the action is more concentrated in front of you and one of the main draws for me is the F-22 flight dem...

Starting October 6, and for the next 14 days and 4,188 miles, I’ve been on a quest for fall colors. On day 2, I picked up my friend Bill Crnkovich in Washington, D.C. Bill is a landscape photographer from Salt Lake City. D.C. gave us the opportunity to start our quest on the backroads of the Pennsylvania Dutch country. We’ve been fall color chaser...

It was an honor to spend an evening with the Beaches Photography Club. My presentation was titled "Driven to the Ends of the Earth". We had good discussions with lots of Q&A. The presentation slides can be seen by first clicking on the title above (the title of this blog) and then by clicking here. It's a large PDF so it takes a moment or two to do...