Florida Star Photography
July 16, 2018
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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 attent...
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Daytime Lightning Photography
June 25, 2018
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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....
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Dark side of the Moon, Mile Post 13
May 15, 2018
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The Dark Side of the Moon (Nikon D850 shooting techniques)
Click here to view 33 processed images from this trip: Western Landscape 2018.
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 tha...
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Brady Rd Tree Canopy
April 10, 2018
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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...
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All About the Prints
February 12, 2018
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The images in PROJECTS 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.
Example, these two images in PROJECTS, of the St. Augustine Lighthouse were recently selected and processed for wall art.
The client(s) went w...
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Making the most out of a Partial Lunar Eclipse!
February 09, 2018
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Get lucky with clear winter skies, wear lots of layers for 36° temperatures (yes, this is Florida), setup 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 6...
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4 Months with a Nikon D850
January 02, 2018
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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 patients...
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Wrapping an F-22 in Vapor
November 22, 2017
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The solid morning cloud cover finally broke and weather conditions setup 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 demo...
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Chasing New England's Fall Colors
October 31, 2017
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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...
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The Presentation for "The Beaches Photography Club"
August 02, 2017
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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...
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Lucky us, the only things eaten were the fish
September 24, 2016
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Honored to present at the 2016 Alaskan Photo Fest in Anchorage. I spoke on two subjects; (1) posing and lighting, and (2) planning a winter photographic landscape expedition to Iceland.
I owe a debt of gratitude to Jackie Kramer. She was the visionary, creator and organizer of the Photo Fest. I also owe Jackie a special thanks for our side trips t...
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Bugs, Sweat, Sleeplessness, and Dripping Humidity
August 21, 2016
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Moon tourists and rockets, just a walk in the park (a typical Florida night) with fellow photographers Trace Cloulat, Keith Bartholomew and John Anderson; an evening photographing the moonrise and the St. Augustine Lighthouse then later into the early morning (12:52 a.m.) photographing the Delta IV launch from south New Smyrna Beach.
Rocket Laun...
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Tips on Icelandic Photography
December 04, 2015
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A lifelong pursuit of excellence in photography is about vision, paying attention to details, mastering techniques and a lot of patience and determination.
I started collecting Internet images of Iceland eight months before the trip and found where each was taken with “Google Earth.” For our dates at each location, “The Photographer’s Ephemeris” p...
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Wines-Gillikin Wedding
May 13, 2015
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Congratulations Katie and Mike! A spectacular ending to a beautiful day at the Oyster Bay Yacht Club in Fernandina Beach, Florida. Just another wonderful couple at a great North Florida venue with food and staff as spectacular as the scenery, thank you Terrie Sanders, Yacht Club Manager.
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On-Location Classical Portraits
March 27, 2015
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Jo and I had an opportunity to setup a temporary studio for executive head shots at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation Resort last week.
Our goal in creating executive head shots is classical portraiture. Whether in our home studio or on location, for a bride or a corporate board member, the objective is the same; to provide a solid repeatable styl...
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