Monarch Photo Tour Trip Report 2019
Monarch Butterfly Lovers from across the USWow! What a trip! We just got back from the mountains of Mexico where we spent time enjoying and photographing millions of Monarch butterflies! These are the Monarchs that flew from our yards last fall, traveling 3000+ miles, to overwinter in Mexico before returning north this spring to lay […]
Photographing Silhouettes Ebook
Get your free copy Nicole and I are excited to release our all new free ebook “Creating Silhouettes”. In this book we cover everything from finding subjects and situations that make great silhouette photographs, to how to meter and process your silhouette images. You can get your free copy: “Creating Silhouettes” Good Luck and Good […]
Photographing a Parrot Clay Lick
No trip to the Amazon would be complete without a visit to a clay lick. On our last trip to Ecuador we did just that and it was so cool. I had no idea that this sort of thing took place and even just hearing about it, it was hard to imagine. The story is […]
Ecuador Photo Tour Trip Report 2018
Ecuador Photo Tour Ah Ecuador! From the cloud forest of the Tandayapa Valley to the foothills of Sumaco Volcano and into the depth of the Amazon, this was a fun trip! Seven intrepid travelers joined us for the main part of this adventure, while five continued on with us for the extension into the Amazon. […]
Winter Photography
Not sure if you have noticed it or not, but the weather around here lately has been, well… a bit challenging. Super cold and a bit of snow. This is when a lot of nature photographers move inside, stop shooting and work on images or do some other indoor tasks – big mistake! I would […]
Light on the Land
Certainly, no photographic journey to the Tetons would be complete without a sunrise visit to the iconic “Oxbow”. The Oxbow can be beautiful at any time of day but the light at sunrise can be especially spectacular. As all of you know, Landscape Photography is all about the light. So, we were all very disappointed […]
Photographing Loons – A Visit with some old Friends
Recently had a chance to visit some old friends… LOONS! Back in the nineties I spent nearly a decade photographing these amazing and interesting birds. Nicole and I went up for two weekends this June and early July and were lucky enough to be there the day the baby hatched. Loons live almost exclusively in […]
Chance favors the prepared mind
This is one of my favorite images from a recent trip to Tanzania. Shots like this don’t “just happen” well… sometimes they do, but more often than not they are anticipated and planned for. In the instance of this image, we had this herd of Zebra feeding before this beautiful African landscape, with a group […]
Big News!
I have big news! It is my great pleasure to introduce you all to Nicole Sudduth. I am beyond happy to announce that Nicole is on her way to join me here in Michigan where we will become partners in every way. In addition to being an amazing woman, Nicole is an avid traveler and […]
Realizing your Creative Vision
The simple act of pushing the shutter button to make a picture changes the scene. When we make an image, the camera compresses our three-dimensional world into two dimensions. It freezes a single moment in time forever. Understanding this fact is the first step to becoming a true photographer. As photographers, we make many conscious […]