July 4th and the associated fireworks are always great opportunities to push your photographic boundaries.  A quick list of some tips you might consider to increase your chance of keepers: Location, Location, Location – My preference goes one of two ways here.  Either go completely barren – where you’ll have unblocked view of the sky...

Having just completed our spring event season and now having a few minutes to take stock of the various events and how we fit there and what our plans should be for the future is always an interesting time at the world headquarters.  Looking around each event, I had a few flashbacks to my first...

Spending time to photograph adoptable pets for our friends at Animal Friends for Education and Welfare the past year and a half has been really an amazing experience.  To see these dogs come in, usually at best found stray in the street, at worse…..well, worse.  Then to see then slowly transform, how they enjoy their...

Normally here we focus on dogs or other domestic animals in our adventures.  But this weekend was a great reminder of the unexpected treasures that can about when you just look around the corner.  It reminds me as a young boy, growing up in Rome, New York, in the shadow of Fort Stanwix, site of...

  Interested in trying your luck tonight getting shots of the rare lunar eclipse?  For those living in NJ, the weather forecast does not look promising, but just in case it breaks, and you have it in you to pull a late or all-nighter, here are some tips to getting the best images.   Stable...