Last month, I had a chance to travel for the first time since the pandemic began, as my family and I visited family in Seattle. I’d been to this area of the US once before, but that was as an Army cadet for our advanced camp, and as such, I only got to see a…
Every year I look back at the photos I’ve taken and assemble a collection of my favorites. Not all my favorites make the cut, and these may not be the very best photos I took during the year, but they are a selection that I like the most, for whatever reason. When I looked back…
This is going to be a quick post, but I wanted to share a little experiment I did this evening. My wife had ordered some Jeni’s ice cream in the mail, which ships in a cooler with a block of dry ice to keep it cold during transport, and so I did what anyone would…
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…