Every year I like to take a look back at the photos I’ve taken and make a selection of my favorite photos of the year. They may not be my very best photos, but they are ones that personally resonate with me. As with any creative pursuit, photography has ebbs and flows of creativity and…
This past week, I had the opportunity to head to southern California for my cousin’s wedding. After the wedding, I stuck around for a couple of days and drove up to Death Valley for some photography. I didn’t have a lot of time, just a day and a half, but tried to make the most…
I had a chance to go out yesterday to a nice waterfall and stream nestled in the suburban sprawl of Cleveland, Ohio. Tinker’s Creek is one of the tributaries of the Cuyahoga River, and the falls are near where an old mill once stood. Despite the lack of rain in Ohio over the past month,…
Landscape photographers regularly try to seek out new locations to capture natural beauty. If you live somewhere where natural beauty is in abundance, you may have countless locations to explore. In other areas, natural beauty may be confined to widely spaced pockets, and it can be challenging to find new locations that scratch that itch…
We’re three months into 2019, and I usually post my Favorite Photos of the Year in late December or early January, but I missed it this year. Still, I’ve done a collection of my favorite photos of the year each year since I founded this site in 2012, and I didn’t want to miss is…
I recently returned from a trip to Guatemala, where my brother-in-law was getting married and having a destination wedding. We brought the whole family along and spent 5 days in Antigua Guatemala, a historic city with wonderful architecture, loads of ruins from the earthquakes that rocked the area over the centuries, and friendly people. As…
I recently took a nice trip to Western Pennsylvania to visit with some of my wife’s family and do a few things with the kids. We ended up going to the two big Frank Lloyd Wright houses in the area, Kentuck Knob and Fallingwater, as well as visiting Cucumber Falls in Ohiopyle State Park and…
Every year, I like to take a look back at the year of shooting and select my favorite photos of the year. 2017 was definitely a down year for me as far as volume of output is concerned, as I had very little time to shoot this year (and even less time to write). However,…