Photography

When you tell someone you’re a photographer, the inevitable followup question is “What do you photograph?” If you answer weddings, or advertisements, or fashion, it’s pretty straightforward, well understood, and the conversation moves on. But when I say “travel,” there […]

I was on my fourth cross country USA road trip, exploring some of my favorites again, camera in hand. The sky was perfectly clear, sunset was coming, and it was warm enough to stay out ’til the stars appeared. The […]

Travel photography isn’t all about the quickness of adventure. With the advent of digital SLRs, many of us became over-shooters, myself included. I often snap away wildly, quickly popping off exposure after exposure with slightly different angles, composition shifts and focal […]

Like any artist, I like to create. More specifically I enjoy the feeling of making things with my hands. There’s just something satisfying about building something from scratch. We live in a society so driven by complex consumer goods that […]

If I had read in a guidebook that there was a Victorian Festival along my travel route in New Zealand, I would have skimmed past the entry quickly, looking for something less hokey, more representative of the country, and more […]

Among the exceptionally varied experiences and photographic opportunities which present themselves each day in the life of a travel photographer certain patterns arise. Although the locations change, the general subject matter is limited to some degree. As you can see from […]

We’ve all heard this question before. Real or photoshopped? It’s a simple query likely to spark rage in the response of many a digital photographer. It’s a photograph! It’s digital! It’s manipulated by a lens, a sensor, a processor the moment it’s […]

The life of a traveler is often executed with very little planning. Wanderlust demands spontaneity. You stay until you get the shot or until the stars, slowly as they will, move into just the right position, then sleep in your […]