Rush City Grain Elevator

Yep, another grain elevator shot.  Whew, how many of these can any of you take?  Well, we’ll find out.  I’m going to start including a short video on my thoughts regarding the WHY of the image post as well as the HOW of it.  Today is the first of these.  Please feel free to post [...]

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 [...]

Landscape Photography: Beautiful Experiences and HDR Images

Today’s post title is inspired by another amazing photographer, Guy Tal.  In a recent post on his blog, Guy discusses the purpose behind his landscape photography,  “…you are there to make images of beautiful experiences. Make it a beautiful experience first, and you will have something to photograph.” Guy’s writing articulates  very well a message [...]

HDR Photography: Color Images

Hi Gang,
Following up on Tuesdays post of BW images, today’s post features a variety of color HDR images all produced with Photomatix Pro.  I’ve been experimenting with different light conditions, different effects.  For example, in the Mickey’s shot I definitely wanted to see what would happen when motion was introduced across three exposures and NOT [...]

HDR Photography: Black and White

Hi Gang, there is a lot going on around HDR photography, especially with the advent of software packages like Photomatix (and others).  Much of the work I see out there is targeted toward surrealistic, super-graphic imaging.  That is a direction I have yet to fall in love with.  So, I’m sharing some work in two [...]