Preface I am really sorry now that I delayed writing about our May 2023 trip to Maui (because I was…
Return to the Valley of Fire
The above park map courtesy of the Nevada State Park website. Regular readers of this blog may remember that we…
Oops! A leftover from 2022
The photo above is a larger, more complete version of the cropped Tulips #2 image below. As you can see,…
My Favorite Photos of 2022
This colorful sunrise over the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco is not the very first photo taken during the…
A month later, back to Lake Tahoe
I just love this view. But, again, no clouds that morning so I decided to emphasize the sunrise starting to…
Getting Everything in Focus – A Photography Tutorial
The image above was taken specifically to provide an example of a “focus-stacked” photograph. I’ll have more to say about…
Return to Lake Tahoe
This image(1/25 sec, f/7.1, ISO 200, 75 mm) of the south end of Lake Tahoe from above Emerald Bay, was…
Lenses, DOF, and a bit more – A Photography Tutorial
In the previous photography tutorial post about Exposure, one of the subtopics discussed was Depth-of-Field (DOF) because aperture, one of…
Maui 2022
The sunrise image above is actually from a trip to Maui taken in 2018. I’ve included it here because it…
Photography – A Tutorial on Exposure
These three camera and lens parameters diagrammed above work together to govern the amount of light that creates a photographic…