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,…
Every fall I like to go do some landscape shooting around Ohio. We don’t have big mountains, or many sweeping vistas, or an ocean shore. There’s Lake Erie, but the sun doesn’t rise or set over it. However, one thing we do have in Ohio is waterfalls and naturally carved gorges, and these make for…
So, I had a chance to test out the new Sony A9 over the past week, and I’ll have a full review soon. However, I wanted to share my experiences shooting with this new camera in an area where it may find a very strong following: Golf. I took the camera, along with the 70-200mm…
Every year, I like to take a look back at the photos I took throughout the last 12 months and see how things have progressed. 2016 was an incredibly busy year for me outside of photography, as many of you may have noticed. I am sorry that I have been so thin on reviews the…
While I have still been extremely busy at my full-time job, I took a bit of vacation this week to go try to catch some of the fall foliage around Ohio. I went to explore some places up around Cleveland on Monday, before heading to Hocking Hills for a short jaunt this morning. It was…
If you’re relatively new to photography, you often focus on the technical aspects: making sure that you know how all the camera settings affect the output and so on. These things are critically important, but eventually become background knowledge as they become ingrained in your consciousness. Then, you will often move to perfecting composition: finding that…