I spent Saturday with a couple of friends shooting some waterfalls in the Ozark National Forest. The weather was perfect for photographing waterfalls – 2 days of rain- very overcast- drizzle and light rain. This may not be your ideal weather but it offers a very soft diffused lightsource, the
Read more →Saturday I went to the Botanical Gardens of the Ozarks with the Photographic Society of Northwest Arkansas (PSNWA) as part of a Macro Photography Workshop led by Marc Langille, you can see Marc’s work here. The weather was both working in our favor and against us, we had great subdued
Read more →I spent the day working in my office today and had some spare time waiting on some large file transfers and decided to take some macro photos of the columbine flowers growing in my garden. These were taken with natural light and an f-stop of f/18 or f/32 and up
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A Guide to Getting Great Wildflower Photos Step #1 – Go outside Wildflowers are just about everywhere, all you need to do is go out and look. You can find wildflowers in the dessert, high alpine tundra, forests, swamps, mountains, grasslands and just about any other terrain. Wildflowers will begin
Read more →My son Matt and I went out to shoot some pictures, we took a drive through the Ozark National Forest, ending up at Shores Lake. We walked down below the spillway to take photos of the dam. Construction of the dam at Shores Lake began in the 1930s by men in
Read more →A major ice storm hit northwest Arkansas on Monday and Tuesday. It is estimated that many areas have 80-90 percent of households without power and that it could take 2 days to a week to restore power. The ice was up to 1 1/2 inches thick and snapped trees like they
Read more →On Sunday my son Matt, friends Jim and Teresa and I went to the Garden of Lights in Muskogee Oklahoma. This was a good trip to do some creative Night Photography. Posted below are some of my shots from the trip.
Read more →Established in 1970, Sequoyah NWR is one of more than 540 refuges in the United States. The refuge name honors Sequoyah, a Native American, who invented a Cherokee alphabet consisting of syllables that allowed his tribe to preserve their traditions and history in writing. By the close of the century,
Read more →My wife and I made a trip to visit her parents in western Kansas last weekend, and found the tumbleweeds to have taken over. Tumbleweeds were introduced from Russia’s Ukraine when some farmers inadvertently brought them to South Dakota in 1886 along with seeds for flax. The plants break away
Read more →I have a slideshow that I created from my recent trip to Florida. This show is from the Everglades and all of the images were captured in a 24 hour buy ambien germany period, which is all the time I had. The show is just over 17 minutes long. Click
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