A Morning At the Beach

Every field of study has its weed-out courses, the one that helps you decide whether this is for you. In some fields its just a brutally difficult and demanding course.  In Mechanical Engineering it was Thermodynamics, in Chemistry it was Organic Chemistry.  In some fields, its just sour tasting, i.e. Accounting or Finance.
Last weekend I [...]

Throwing a Hail Mary

This set of images was taken on the night of Dec. 23 and during the day, Dec. 24, 2009.  Our epic snowstorm blowing in, my friend Chet and I decide to head to Duluth and take what comes our way.  We arrived in the harbor at night, but in reasonable conditions.  The winds were blowing [...]

Photo Ciritique Episode 3

Hi Gang,
I’m posting a new photo critique.  This recording also announces a new website I’ve been developing on behalf of the Twin Cities Area Council of Camera Clubs.  Please visit and register.  The site has some really cool features and opportunities for folks in the Twin Cities and beyond.  The address is http://www.tcphotonow.com To view [...]

(V) Photo Critique: Dead Tree Pan from Chet

Hi Gang,
On occasion I produce photo critiques as an educational service to my blog audience.  I recently produced one on behalf of a new website I launched for Twin Cities camera clubs, called Twin Cities Photo Now (http://www.tcphotonow.com).  I’ll be regularly producing photo critiques for this new site and republishing them here for you.
This inaugural [...]

Where’s Your Hamburg or Rolling Stone Tour?

Today’s post is about practice.  This topic is inspired by the book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell.  My good friend, Travis Bechtel, turned me on to this via another photographer’s blog post in which he wrote about Malcolm’s concept of 10,000 hours.  During my 12 hours of driving over the thanksgiving holiday, I listened to the [...]

(I)Black and White Photography: Capella Tower and B/W Adjustment Layer Tricks

Today’s image is from a recently completed commercial shoot of the Capella Tower, downtown Minneapolis, MN.  The management claims its the tallest skyscraper in Minneapolis by 1 foot, towering over the IDS building.
After completing my work in color for the client, I decided to play around with the image in black and white.  Its MUCH [...]

(I)Landscape Photography: Osseo barn, silo, Jane and farm dog

Last weekend I went to Madison, WI for a halloween/Badgers Football/euchre/croquet weekend with some friends.  On may down I decided to take an hour to just PLAY around in the Osseo, WI area.  Despite its international fame for the Norski Nook pies, Osseo is really just a sleepy farming community.  It was cold, cloudy and [...]

Landscape Photography: Giving Up #1

Today’s image is the first of three I’ll be posting as a series titled, “Giving Up.”  In early Octoboer, 2009 I left Saint Paul at 3 am to catch sunrise on Lake Superior in Duluth.  The forecast was for rain, it rained all the way up I35, then stopped in Duluth.  Then started again in [...]

(V) (I) Landscape Photography Tutorial: Duluth Harbor Black and White

Hi Gang, today’s post is an image and video tutorial of a photo I captured on Oct. 2, 2009 in Duluth Harbor.  Some may recall the storm that passed through there and I showed up on the back side of it, when things had calmed just a little.  The structure in this image is the [...]

Welcome to my New Photography Site

NEW NEWS Well, I did it again. I have a new site with a new domain name and for good reason. The short of it is a change of focus and a need for better SEO (don’t worry if you don’t know what that means). Those two simple sounding issues [...]

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